Production Planner II

Novanta Inc.•Apex, NC

About The Position

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing. Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta. This position is part of Novanta’s Celera Motion business unit. Derived from the Latin word “celer” for quick and swift, the name Celera reflects our commitment to delivering motion control solutions that accelerate our customers’ ability to deliver innovative solutions to their markets. Celera Motion’s cohesive vision, superior technologies, consultative team approach and best-in-class reliability make us the trusted partner in solving the most challenging motion control problems. Celera Motion’s precision component and subsystem solutions solve application-specific challenges for technology-driven original equipment manufacturers from a range of markets. This job is responsible for determining material specifications, creating and maintaining inventory schedules, coordinating with internal departments, and managing external stakeholder relations. Lead and Manage cross functional SIOP Reviews, creating SIOP Data Analytics and coordinate with Leadership to drive demand planning in ERP Lead cross functional meetings such as Production Backlog/Revenue review, Procurement Material Meetings and more. Manage all material planning through MRP to meet key performance indicators Coordinate weekly production schedule working with product management, customer service, purchasing and the operations team. Prepare, maintain, monitor and measure daily master production schedule (MPS) and ensure timely feedback to schedule adherence is provided to the production leads. Periodic reporting on manufacturing completions versus plan and other critical planning performance measures Manage inventory effectively through Kanban & visual management to meet our inventory accuracy goals Setting and reviewing inventory policies, such as sub-assembly safety stocks to optimize production runs Support E&O review by managing incoming material through just in time (JIT) process and working towards avoiding excess inventory Participate in and drive NGS Continuous improvement activities assigned. Ensure Master Data accuracy by contributing to ECO reviews

Requirements

BS/BA degree in a business or technical field (or equivalent experience)
4+ years experience in a planning role
Ability to drive cost reduction projects to achieve consistent PPV and overall material spend reductions
Proven ability to ensure material availability, while reducing inventory and increasing inventory turns.
Systematic approach to analyzing and reducing the supply base to achieve maximize EOQ purchasing for cost effectiveness
Strong negotiation and excellent interpersonal skills
Team player with strong computer, written, verbal and skills
Ability to multitask and manage changing business conditions is essential
Previous experience in a manufacturing environment: Motors preferred
Working experience in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma environments
Understand and participate in the SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning) process.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with Oracle or SAP preferred
APICS certification desirable
International purchasing & planning experience a plus

Responsibilities

determining material specifications
creating and maintaining inventory schedules
coordinating with internal departments
managing external stakeholder relations
Lead and Manage cross functional SIOP Reviews
creating SIOP Data Analytics
coordinate with Leadership to drive demand planning in ERP
Lead cross functional meetings such as Production Backlog/Revenue review, Procurement Material Meetings and more
Manage all material planning through MRP to meet key performance indicators
Coordinate weekly production schedule working with product management, customer service, purchasing and the operations team
Prepare, maintain, monitor and measure daily master production schedule (MPS) and ensure timely feedback to schedule adherence is provided to the production leads
Periodic reporting on manufacturing completions versus plan and other critical planning performance measures
Manage inventory effectively through Kanban & visual management to meet our inventory accuracy goals
Setting and reviewing inventory policies, such as sub-assembly safety stocks to optimize production runs
Support E&O review by managing incoming material through just in time (JIT) process and working towards avoiding excess inventory
Participate in and drive NGS Continuous improvement activities assigned.
Ensure Master Data accuracy by contributing to ECO reviews