Production Planner

Nazdar Company•Shawnee, KS

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Nazdar is seeking a Production Planner to support production teams in Shawnee by analyzing inventory, maintaining material levels, and coordinating production schedules. This is a full-time, in-office role for someone with production planning or inventory management experience and strong communication and computer skills. The Production Planner analyzes finished goods and raw material inventories, manages batch sizes and material levels based on historical or projected sales, and generates production schedules and batch tickets based on inventory analyses and production capacity. The role also reviews inventory and shortage reports, supports production planning and scheduling activities, performs cycle counts, and provides clerical and operational support to production management. Work is performed according to established safety, quality, and efficiency procedures and company policies.

Requirements

A minimum of 2–4 years of experience in production planning and/or inventory management, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word.
Strong computer skills and ability to learn new systems.
A proven history of excellent performance in work behaviors and results.

Nice To Haves

Background in quality assurance using ISO programs is highly preferred.
Experience with M3, M1, and Red Zone systems is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Analyze finished goods and raw material inventories; maintain appropriate levels and adjust quantities and reorder points as needed.
Analyze batch sizes and raw material levels, making adjustments based on historical or projected sales.
Analyze idle inventory, confer with the supervisor, make recommendations, and implement recommendations.
Generate production schedules and batch tickets based on inventory analyses and production capacity.
Review inventory shortage, reorder, item coverage, and ship-list reports and take appropriate action.
Assist Production Planners and the Production Scheduler in maintaining the Hot List.
Review raw material shortages.
Review rework, Q stock, and quarantine inventories.
Perform cycle counts of raw materials and finished goods.
Provide backup assistance to the Production Planner and Production Scheduler.
Complete transactions as requested by production personnel.
Perform clerical duties for the production management team.
Perform work according to established safety, quality, and efficiency standard operating procedures.
Assist with enforcement of company policies.
Perform other duties as directed or assigned by the Planning Manager.