Production Planner - Rome, NY

Indium Corporation•Rome, NY

4h•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Planner is responsible for analyzing, interpreting, and converting customer order information into manufacturing production work orders (cross referencing). The Production Planner will plan, review, and report to supervision, customer order input rates, order error rates, departmental/site delivery performance, departmental product workload volumes as scheduled, and complete planning actions related to increases/decreases in stocking levels in component and finished goods inventories. The Production Planner also assists departmental supervision in communicating with sales and within manufacturing all order rescheduling, to include materials expediting through purchasing as required.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED required; Associates degree in Business Management, Accounting or related field preferred; an equivalent combination of education and related work experience may be considered
1 year of related work experience
Experience in product configuration, and manufacturing process familiarity
Proficient at intermediate math applications
Proficient PC, intermediate Microsoft Excel skills
Highly analytical and detail-oriented
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
Provide own source of transportation for any local/day travel, including travel between Indium Corporation facilities

Nice To Haves

APICS Planning certification preferred

Responsibilities

Analyze and interpret customer order documentation to create manufacturing work orders (cross–referencing) for production product builds
Exercise effective organizational and work management skills to provide feedback to sales and manufacturing supervision, to include error reports, projected workload volumes, and product and production component inventories
Provide departmental reporting input to departmental supervision to confirm product lead-time scheduling information to sales
Access, navigate, research and enter data using various systems and software, including Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, and the enterprise resource planning system
Research, suggest, document, suggest production scheduling and inventory changes to supervision based upon departmental production capacities and supplies availability
Plan/adjust/monitor/report required production inventories, and create and expedite purchase orders as required in coordination with departmental supervision necessary to optimize customer order completion
Accurately perform mathematical calculations using basic math functions, unit of measure conversions, and product related formulas as required
Ensure work is accurate and well-documented according to all quality management system standards
Collaborate with various Indium Corporation departments, including sales, engineering and quality to provide/obtain information and/or evaluation
Attend training as needed or assigned
Perform other duties and special projects as assigned