Production Planner

nVent • Anoka, MN

1d • $62,900 - $116,900

About The Position

We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or related field preferred. Combination of education and experience will be considered.
• 2+ years experience in production planning, scheduling, materials, or supply.
• Experience in JDE ERP or other ERP systems is a plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Experience with conflict resolution and project management.

Nice To Haves

• CPIM certification through ASCM preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze component availability and value stream workload to assign accurate delivery dates for customized products, optimize production schedules, and monitor progress.
• Work cross functionally with buyers, operations and planning to resolve issues, handle customer inquiries, and provide input to sales and operations planning.
• Solicit feedback, initiate corrective action and coordinate resolution of issues.
• Keep operations and management informed of critical situations.
• Lead and provide daily direction and critical prioritization with operations, program management, procurement, customer service, engineering, SIOP, and other partners in alignment with published production plan.
• Maintain accurate records, review forecasts, and process all order changes and cancellations.
• Identify excess and obsolete inventory, determine root cause and disposition, and take corrective action.
• Develop and implement strategies to improve efficiency and minimize human involvement.
• Collaborate with buyers and partner plants on component availability/lead time and production planning team to establish production schedules and optimal production sequencing to an executable plan.
• Support and take action to drive new product implementation to ensure successful and on-time program launches.
• Identify and resolve capacity/load issues, material constraints, address equipment/quality problems, and initiate corrective action.
• Drive improvements in promise date accuracy for orders across multiple value streams.
• Develop scenarios and contingency plans to production schedules in the event of issues preventing schedule execution.
• Root cause and action plan daily and weekly production attainment misses for future improvements.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
• Tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level