Production Planner - Commerce

Batory Foods•Commerce, CA

21d•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Planner is responsible for creating & maintaining an optimized, executable production schedule. Handle master data to ensure accurate capacity planning and lead times for assigned orders. This role is onsite 5 days a week.

Requirements

Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Strong analytical skills.
Extensive knowledge in Microsoft applications required.
Knowledge of WMS and D365;
Strong understanding of inventory control.
Knowledge of bills of materials required.
3-5 years capacity planning experience in a production environment required.

Nice To Haves

BS or Associates degree in Supply Chain or related field highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Schedule production lines based on customer demand and capacity constraints.
Work cross functionally with replenishment and procurement teams to ensure schedule can be attained.
Investigate, analyze, and initiate bills of material, and perform necessary systems maintenance.
Execute, document, and distribute reports daily, to be used as tools for decision making by production personnel and manufacturing analyst/schedulers.
Develop and maintain optimized sequencing to minimize planned downtime for the production team.
Support overall manufacturing workflow visibility by providing planning and coordination of product movement throughout manufacturing process.
Proactively work with other functional leaders across the site(s) to create synergies and maintain effective workflow.
Leads weekly operational meetings with internal and/or external production teams to discuss the current production plan, required staff, sets priorities, and overcomes obstacles encountered.
Measures and monitors production floor output/performance and makes required scheduling changes as needed.
Responds to demand and supply changes in a timely and accurate manner to minimize production downtime and maintain efficiencies.
Monitoring packaging needed to support schedule and communicating with vendors regarding packaging that might be needed.
Develop Production KPI’s and work with operation and maintenance (Capacity Utilization, Standard operating efficiency, OOE – Overall Operating Efficiency, OEE – Overall equipment effectiveness, downtime, inventory turns).
All other duties as assigned.