Production Planning Analyst

KMM•Lincoln, NE

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A seeks a full-time Production Planning Analyst at our Consumer Products manufacturing facility in Lincoln, NE. This role involves administering, communicating, and improving production planning practices, supporting the production schedule, managing bill of materials (BOMs) and engineering change orders (ECOs), troubleshooting inventory errors, and analyzing systems and workflows to optimize production and inventory plans. The analyst will also be responsible for reporting, collaborating with various departments and the Japan office, and ensuring adherence to company policies and quality systems. The position may require extended time on the production floor to understand operational flow.

Requirements

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)
Four to six years of scheduling and/or planning experience
Ability to demonstrate the skills in sharing and receiving information, feedback, to encourage a trusting and developmental outcome or relationship
Must be capable of assessing all forms of communication, verbal and nonverbal, to determine the effectiveness of communication
Ability to display appropriate proficiency with computers and computer applications, including: spreadsheets (e.g., Excel), word processing (e.g., Word), presentation software (e.g., PowerPoint), internet/intranet (e.g., browsers, search engines), special applications (e.g., Lansa Client, AS400, etc.)

Responsibilities

Administering, communicating and improving practices and functions
Provide support to Production as needed
Create and maintain bill of materials (BOMs) for new and existing vehicles
Support production schedule changes to minimize disruption and optimize inventory utilization
Set up engineering change orders (ECOs) in our production system to drive an efficient implementation of design changes
Set up internal engineering changes orders for supply changes or related situations
Work with internal departments on when and how to implement engineering change orders
Support the execution of engineering changes into production
Troubleshoot inventory management errors to drive solutions and accurate part control
Issue cycle count requests to confirm inventory
Communicate with Japan office on BOM and ECO related issues
Review and modify POs from KMC, and work with purchasing
Focus on the production schedules that will utilize resources in the most optimal way and maintain viable production and inventory plans that best fulfill demand requirements
Follow all company Policies and Procedures, Quality and Environmental Management Systems (QMS & EMS), Kawasaki Production System (KPS) and any other legal and compliance regulations that may apply such as OSHA
Monitor and analyze systems, schedules and work flow
Research trends in related issues, analyze current processes and recommend applicable changes for improvements to relevant programs
Create, update and prepare reports using various computer programs
Provide support and communicate to all levels of the organization for internal and external customers
Analyze various information to determine out of balance conditions, develop solutions and adjust system parameters to improve efficiencies, support cost down efforts and provide customer service
Order and monitor and work with all areas within the company to for accurate flow of parts being shipped outside the company
Initiate orders to be shipped within the system and how the flow works
Coordinate and work with shipping area for new model shipments
All jobs may require being on the production floor for extended period of time. This is encouraged to truly understand the flow of how the production and shipping systems work.