Production Planner
About The Position
Trane Technologies is hiring a Production Planner in Clarksville, Tennessee. This onsite role prepares shipping and receiving schedules to control the flow of goods, implements materials-handling procedures, and monitors activity costs and effectiveness to optimize resources. The planner maintains inventory control systems that track purchase orders, inventory levels, and production requirements, and coordinates materials-handling activities with current and anticipated demand. The Production Planner coordinates material requirements and manufacturing priorities, develops production schedules, and uses production tools and Lean concepts to align builds with customer demand. The role also manages aftermarket, rejected, and rework product planning; monitors schedule performance; works with cross-functional teams to address delays and shortages; and helps identify disposition for obsolete and surplus assembly inventory.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or 2–5 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least two years of experience in operations, inventory management, MRP, and Lean manufacturing processes.
- Experience with rate-based or flow-line (non-MRP) and job-shop manufacturing environments.
- Experience with visual management systems.
Nice To Haves
- APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM).
- Bachelor's degree.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate material requirements.
- Establish manufacturing priorities to meet customer demand, master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and service-level goals.
- Develop new product group schedules in line with manufacturing build schedule requirements.
- Implement production tools for building to actual customer demand, including Kanbans, build prioritization, expediting, and automated transactions based on Lean concepts.
- Manage aftermarket planning.
- Manage rejected and rework product planning.
- Coordinate manufacturing activities and monitor schedule performance against plan to maintain priorities and meet established schedules.
- Meet daily with cross-functional teams to resolve delayed customer shipments, component shortages, overtime, priorities, and identified problems.
- Review critical shortage reports daily and update the appropriate cause codes for service-level reporting; identify and resolve problems.
- Participate in identifying and recommending disposition of obsolete and surplus assembly inventory.
- Prepare schedules for shipping and receiving materials, implement materials-handling procedures, and monitor the cost and effectiveness of activities.
- Oversee inventory control systems tracking purchase orders, inventory levels, and production requirements.
Benefits
- Health insurance and holistic wellness programs with incentives, available from day one.
- Fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
- Up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options supporting volunteer and parental leave.
- 401(k) match.
- Educational and training opportunities through company programs.
- Tuition assistance and student debt support.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
