Production Planner

WEG Electric Corp • Minneapolis, MN

18d • $65,000 - $75,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Planner is responsible for creating, organizing, guiding and scheduling production. Provides resource analysis, detailed manufacturing schedules and production plans. Carries out studies and projections to avoid bottlenecks while monitoring the production process in order to optimize capacity, utilization and quality.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in 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.
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office products (focus on Excel), proficiency preferred.
• Familiar with MRP software, SAP strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining summary schedules to meet customer demand.
• Acts as primary information conduit between operations and commercial departments.
• Performs schedule analysis such as critical path identification, schedule risk identification, and variance investigation.
• Performs capacity monitoring and analysis to identify and resolve capacity constraints using proven industry best-practices such as level-loading, expediting, and outsourcing.
• Proactively identifies and manages the resolution of critical schedule issues.
• Leads resolution of urgent product manufacturing issues to support master schedule
• Integrates, maintains and analyzes primary data related to project backlog and history.
• Compiles and analyzes Key Performance and Visual Management Indicators.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees