Production Planner

Champion Homes•Decatur, IN

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About The Position

Champion Home Builders, Inc. is hiring a Production Planner for its Decatur Hub in the Decatur, Indiana region. The Production Planner is an integral member of the production team, working with purchasing, production, and freight suppliers to manage and optimize customer-plant work orders and ensure the flow of work and materials through manufacturing, packaging, and final shipping. The role verifies order accuracy, optimizes production schedules, and ensures adequate raw-material inventory. It also supports the buyer with direct-material procurement and works with Accounts Payable to account for month-end material inventory. The position requires strong attention to detail, strategic thinking, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork. The successful candidate will maintain knowledge of material requirements and production processes, monitor order and material availability, and help improve inventory, production yield, quality, and throughput.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, or equivalent.
At least 4 years of manufacturing or relevant experience.
Experience in supply chain management.
Experience with quality-control activities and the ability to identify and manage risk.
Strong influencing, negotiation, interpersonal, and communication skills.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to use digital tools to capture orders, optimize batch runs, and interface with floor equipment to track orders.
Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment and adapt to changing business needs.
Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
Ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams and lead by example.

Responsibilities

Work daily with the production manager to provide the production schedule and overall materials plan.
Manage starting-material, work-in-process, and finished-goods inventory to support production.
Monitor actual and forecast material consumption and order replenishment stock.
Manage orders through the procurement process, communicate with receiving plants weekly to verify order accuracy, and develop a weekly production forecast.
Update the pricing model to reflect new material and transportation costs.
Monitor open purchase orders, including delivery and quality issues that may affect their status.
Regularly review safety stock, minimum order quantities, supplier lead times, and quality-assurance lead times to identify improvement opportunities, including inventory reductions.
Manage production yield while minimizing scrap, using provided software to optimize component nesting from raw material.
Manage rejected or non-conforming material through the Material Disposition Process.
Track and report production performance and communicate quality and throughput issues to leadership.
Work with Accounts Payable monthly to account for shop-floor inventory.
Support Purchasing with vendor credit issues.
Coordinate material returns with Quality Assurance, Purchasing, the warehouse, and suppliers.
Maintain current knowledge of material requirements, production processes, and issues affecting product availability, including product- or project-specific activities such as special samples for stability studies and global product registrations.