Production Planner

trane technologies • Kentwood, MI

11d • $56,300 - $101,395 • Onsite

About The Position

As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. This role will establish, manage, and maintain the production schedule for a selected group of products. This role will act as single point of contact with the plant for all customer accounts, managing the entire order life cycle to ensure orders are processed on time, and collaborate with other functional teams to ensure customer’s expectations and requirements are met.

Requirements

• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred or 4+ years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree. High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment or customer service.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) required.
• Ability to effectively make decisions with limited time and information and determine decision making criteria based on priorities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple departments.
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Data access/retrieval skills with experience in data analysis, data manipulation using MS Excel and/or other tools as provided.
• Must have the ability to identify problems, make recommendations and recognize when to alert.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with production scheduling preferred
• Oracle/ERP preferred
• Advanced excel skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establishes production manufacturing priorities for the customer demand consistent with master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and service level goals.
• Perform order entry for configure to order business model.
• Reconciles all order discrepancies and order changes.
• Communicate with sales offices, engineering, purchasing, and operations to ensure customer priorities are met and leverage common processes, tools, and information systems.
• Assists in the development of weekly and monthly metrics, which include on-time shipment %, productivity, shipment goals, past due backlog, and assembly production.
• Request support from the next appropriate level of customer support for escalations / issues, providing documentation throughout the process.
• Establish and communicate revised production schedules based on weekly PSI meetings
• Coordinates manufacturing activities and monitors schedule performance against plan.
• Participate in customer service-related projects such as Strategy A3, Projects & MDI (daily meetings).
• Assist in and support the development of process improvements and continuous learning.
• Attend / host daily standup meetings in production environments.
• Host meetings for production coordination
• Other duties as assigned by master scheduler.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives
• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution.
• Paid time off includes 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED