Production Planner

Trane Italia•Kentwood, MI

22h•Onsite

About The Position

As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, Trane Technologies is hiring a Production Planner in Grand Rapids, MI. In this role, you will prepare schedules for shipping and receiving materials to control flow of goods, implement materials handling procedures, and monitor the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources. You will also oversee the maintenance of inventory control systems that track the status of purchase orders, inventory levels, and production requirements. The position involves interpreting inventory requests, production schedules, orders, and other documents to co-ordinate materials handling activities with the organization's current and anticipated demand for goods and materials. Trane Technologies is committed to putting the planet first and making a better future through sustainable business practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred OR 2-5 years of relative experience required in lieu of degree.
Experience with rate based or flow line (non-MRP) and job shop manufacturing environments.
At least two years’ experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and lean manufacturing processes.

Nice To Haves

APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) preferred.

Responsibilities

Coordinate material requirements.
Establish production manufacturing priorities for the customer demands consistent with master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and service level goal.
Develop new product group schedules with requirement of the manufacturing build schedule.
Implement production tools for building to actual customer demands, Kanbans, prioritizing builds, expediting and automating transactions per Lean concepts.
Manage aftermarket planning.
Manage rejected and rework product planning.
Coordinate manufacturing activities and monitors schedule performance against plan to maintain priorities and meet established schedules.
Meet daily with cross-functional team to resolve delayed customer shipments, component shortages, overtime, priorities, and identified problems.
Work the critical shortage reports on a daily basis and updates the appropriate cause codes for service level reporting.
Identifies and resolves problems.
Participate in identification and recommends disposition of obsolete and surplus assembly inventory.