Production Planner Supervisor

Electric Machinery Company•Minneapolis, MN

About The Position

Electric Machinery Company, a division of WEG Electric Corp. Minneapolis, MN Position: Production Planner Supervisor Department: PPC Department Primary Objective of Position: The Production Planning and Control supervisor is responsible for supervision of all the employees assigned to his or her department. He or she is responsible for creating, organizing, guiding and scheduling production in accordance with delivery, cost, safety and quality. Provides leadership, develops employees, and stimulates ownership by all.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Planning, Operations, Business, or similar; or equivalent work experience.
Demonstrated competency strength in initiative, problem solving, customer service, and interpersonal communication skills.
Three to Five years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
Computer literate; Familiar with MRP software, knowledge of Microsoft Office and SAP software preferred
Communicate and interact effectively across all levels of the organization
Self-starting, results oriented, flexible, team player
Ability to coordinate and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

knowledge of Microsoft Office and SAP software

Responsibilities

Develops and trains individuals to ensure facility wide coordination occurs in order to ensure all products, and parts are produced efficiently, safely and with high quality in order to meeting customer delivery.
Provides coaching, guidance, employee development, and day to day support to the commercial and production departments.
Responsible for developing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining summary schedules to meet customer demand.
Performs schedule analysis such as critical path identification, schedule risk identification, variance investigation, level-loading, expediting, and outsourcing.
Performs capacity monitoring and analysis to identify and resolve capacity constraints using proven industry best-practices such as level-loading, expediting, and outsourcing.
Acts as primary information conduit between operations and commercial departments.
Works closely and harmoniously with other department’s supervisors and employees.
Responsible for the accomplishment of short and long-term goals and objectives.
Ensures department operations are conducted according to the budget guidelines.
Complies and analyzed Key Performance and Visual Management Indicators.