Production Planner

Newmar Corporation•Forest City, IA

About The Position

The Production Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining a valid production and shop floor schedule that optimizes the use of company materials and resources while fulfilling customer requirements. The position coordinates material flow, scheduling, capacity planning, purchasing, inventory strategies, and communication of production commitments across internal stakeholders. The planner works with manufacturing, engineering, purchasing, production, inventory, sales, marketing, and service teams to manage constraints and maintain efficient, accurate production plans. The role also owns associated physical inventory and future inventory plans for assigned manufacturing streams and provides management with input on long-term issues that may affect corporate decisions.

Requirements

At least 3 years of manufacturing or supply chain experience within an MRP environment.
Knowledge of operations, scheduling and purchasing procedures, MRP systems and processes, and supply chain best practices.
Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment with minimal supervision.
Excellent English and verbal and written communication skills.
Good skills with MS Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

Maintain a valid production schedule aligned with the master schedule and serving as the basis for detailed shop floor schedules.
Coordinate the flow of materials between production stages and review production schedules and material receipts to optimize resource utilization and efficiency.
Coordinate daily with purchasing to fulfill the production schedule on time while minimizing on-hand or idle inventory.
Communicate production commitments to stakeholders in sales, marketing, service, and engineering, and maintain metrics for areas of responsibility.
Identify and resolve conflicts involving material and capacity availability and order-promising integrity; manage communications and escalations when demand cannot be met and recommend alternatives.
Maintain capacity data for critical plant resources and work centers, working with manufacturing and engineering leaders to manage constraints and maximize cost-effective utilization.
Maintain scheduling and manufactured-item attributes, including lead times, lot sizes, and cycle times.
Liaise with engineering to ensure appropriate labor, machine, and scrap standards are used in material and capacity requirements.
Create and lead material strategies for required production goods, including raw, semi-finished, and expense goods.
Own physical inventory and future inventory plans for responsible manufacturing streams and provide management with input regarding long-term issues that could affect corporate decisions.
Manage work-in-process variances at the work-order level and work with manufacturing, production, and inventory teams to ensure timely and accurate work-order management.