Senior Production Planner

Sonoco • Milwaukee, WI

6d • $107,760 - $121,230

About The Position

The Senior Production Planner schedules manufacturing equipment and raw materials to meet customer demand efficiently. The role is responsible for scheduling jobs to minimize downtime, use equipment effectively, and ensure on-time delivery. It has indirect customer contact to support excellent customer service. Reporting directly to the Plant Manager, the planner takes direction from leadership functions, including operations and administration.

The position provides and directs plant production control and planning, production scheduling, warehouse and shipping/receiving functions, and purchasing and storeroom functions as directed. It oversees planning and production scheduling for cans, ends, and plates across the plant, and works with Procurement and Supply Chain on purchasing raw materials and supplies. The role also contributes to forecasting, inventory control and reconciliation, customer service, transportation coordination, and production and sales reporting.

The role is based at Sonoco's Milwaukee, Wisconsin facility. Key challenges include scheduling a 24/7 operation with multiple, complex delivery points and addressing vendor quality or supply issues that affect plans and require navigating difficult supply chains.

Requirements

• Oracle experience required.
• QAD experience required.
• Communication skills.
• Operations knowledge.
• Vendor-management skills.
• Computer literacy, including Oracle, Outlook, and MS Office.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Conflict-resolution skills.
• Strategic-thinking skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Flexibility.

Nice To Haves

• Four-year degree preferred; four or more years of experience can substitute.

Responsibilities

• Provide administration and supervision of plant production control and planning as directed.
• Supervise and direct warehouse/planning and shipping/receiving functions as directed.
• Supervise and direct purchasing and storeroom functions as directed.
• Oversee planning and production scheduling of cans, ends, and plates for the entire plant.
• Work with Procurement and Supply Chain on purchasing raw material, dunnage, coatings, and packaging supplies.
• Develop metal-processing production schedules to meet internal production and external sales requirements while minimizing changeovers and downtime and maintaining appropriate inventory levels, including shipments of scrap and finished goods.
• Provide daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly production, spoilage, sales, and production-schedule data.
• Maintain and provide records for raw-material and finished-goods inventory reporting; manage and review inventory reconciliation, advise on corrective actions, resolve problems, and coordinate and review semi-annual inventory.
• Supervise receipt, storage, and control of raw materials for production; initiate substitution requests as needed and maintain and review rough-cut capacity planning.
• Forecast production, sales, and metal requirements for plant and group-office use.
• Maintain and direct routine material and production review meetings with plant production management personnel.
• Schedule raw materials for production and coordinate metal shipments and in-plant inventories with group offices.
• Assist the group sales function with budget and forecast comparisons, customer inquiries, and customer activities; maintain and seek resolution of customer complaints.
• Coordinate customer releases and orders with outside warehouses and other plants within the group.
• Assist in procuring transportation for customer and warehouse movement of finished products.
• Assist and advise the plant purchasing function on implementation of the central stores reporting system and competitive pricing of goods and services.
• Review and order ODMs needed for production.
• Assist Customer Service Representatives with customer forecasts and, as needed, perform all aspects of SMP Processing customer service responsibilities.
• Participate in the safety process, take responsibility for personal safety, and contribute to team and process-improvement activities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, including FSA and HSA options.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Wellbeing tools and resources, including an Employee Assistance Program.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Company-paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans, including life, personal accident, and disability insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed