Production Planner II

Tecomet, Inc. • Manchester, NH

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About The Position

The Production Planner II will create the Production schedule for one or various Value Stream area(s) to best satisfy current and forecasted demand, while meeting business objectives of safety, quality, on time delivery, competitive customer lead times, profitability, and inventory. The Production Planner will also support daily management activities to ensure commitments are achieved, communicate order status to customer service, and ensure project management teams are supported. The role requires the above to be accomplished within Tecomet’s principles of continuous improvement, customer driven innovation and a win first culture, while meeting company financial and other performance metrics.

Requirements

• BS degree in Business Administration, Engineering or Supply Chain.
• 5+ years of experience within Planning and Procurement.
• Experience with any modern ERP Systems.
• Production scheduling to manage open orders and driving the production planning process.
• Provides information to weekly SIOP meetings.
• Well versed in MRP/MPS systems.
• APICS or CPM certification a plus or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Six sigma certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ability to understand and utilize MRP and how master data drives material requirement planning.
• Plan all operations starting with the receipt of purchase orders through shipping of product.
• Assist the purchasing department with outsourcing processes.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels to meet and exceed inventory targets and turns.
• Seek opportunities to reduce inventory through various techniques such as lot size optimization, off-the-shelf vs. MTO analysis, Kanban, etc.
• Full understanding of re-order points and safety stock formulas.
• Create a production plan, understand level loading, capacity planning, sequential and concurrent scheduling.
• Lead production planning meetings and communicate when a gap exists between demand vs. capacity.
• Work with manufacturing to come up with creative scheduling techniques and adjusting of resources.
• Understand Production Attainment and work with manufacturing to fully optimize scheduling.
• Drive root cause for missed shipments and help to implement corrective actions.
• Proactively identify potential shortages against scheduled production orders.
• Evaluate slow moving items and work with appropriate groups to propose clean-up, re-work, obsolescence, changes to lot sizing, stock status etc.
• Move materials as necessary in performance of duties.
• Communicate effectively both internally and externally at all levels.
• Support various supply chain functions as demand requires (shipping, receiving, stockroom).
• Monitor 1+5-day OTD, track current work status.
• Monitor aged operations, work and support operations to push work forward.
• Support customer demand, alert planning/customer service teams if an order will be missed.
• Support customer service / planning with completing customer open order reports on status for shipping.
• Work with operations and planning on determining priorities if another order is held up for an issue.
• Support MRB as needed based on volume of NCR’s and OTD impact.
• Work with supply chain and operations to drive the output of monthly revenue and end of month order priorities.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees