Production Planner Non-Exempt

Micro Matic•Brooksville, FL

About The Position

The Production Planner prepares schedules and coordinates production workflow for one or more products. The role plans and prioritizes operations to maximize performance and minimize delays, and determines the manpower, equipment, and raw materials needed to meet production demand. The planner reviews master scheduling—including the Master Production Plan, Materials Plan, and Capacity Plan—to provide materials availability-to-promise information to customers, forecasts sales, and enters anticipated demand into the ERP system. The position creates and maintains production schedules and sequences, establishes operation lead times and completion dates based on forecasts or customer orders, and plans workflow for departments and operations. It examines production specifications and capacity data and performs calculations to identify production processes, tools, and human-resource requirements. The planner monitors project status with department supervisors, expedites delayed operations, adjusts schedules for unforeseen conditions, and prepares production reports. The role may also prepare materials, tools, and equipment lists and purchase orders, and performs other assigned duties. The position generally spends most of the day in a busy professional office environment and must work with constant interruptions. It routinely uses standard office equipment and software. Occasional travel is required.

Requirements

Associate degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; alternatively, two to four years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos.
Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing and to present information effectively in individual and small-group situations to customers and other employees.
Ability to perform arithmetic using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, and compute rates, ratios, and percentages.
Ability to solve practical problems involving concrete variables and limited standardization.
Ability to interpret instructions provided in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Ability to work with constant interruptions.

Nice To Haves

CPIM certification.

Responsibilities

Review master scheduling, including the Master Production Plan, Materials Plan, and Capacity Plan, to provide materials availability-to-promise information to customers.
Forecast sales and enter anticipated demand data into the ERP system.
Prepare production schedules for a business unit or organization.
Check for missing materials and follow up with purchasing and operations.
Create master schedules establishing the sequence and lead time of each operation to meet completion dates based on forecasts or customer orders.
Arrange orders into a sequential work schedule and plan the sequence of operations.
Examine production specifications and capacity data, and calculate production processes, tools, and human-resource requirements.
Plan and schedule departmental and operational workflow according to established production sequences and lead times.
Remain on schedule and recognize project urgency.
Confer with department supervisors to determine the status of assigned projects.
Expedite operations that delay schedules and adjust schedules to address unforeseen conditions.
Prepare production reports.
As needed, prepare lists and purchase orders to obtain required materials, tools, and equipment.
Perform other duties as assigned.