Senior Production Planner

Olympus Corporation of the Americas•Brooklyn Park, MN

2d•$77,515 - $104,645•Hybrid

About The Position

The Production Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining a constrained weekly production schedule (MPS) and managing the frozen period horizon for all possible production requirements (Scheduling, rescheduling, reworks, outsourced work-in-progress inventory) for committed 1-3 months and reviewing 4-12 months schedule for any known capacity constraints. The planner will also hold responsibilities to resolve manufacturing issues and communicate the potential impact to key business partner

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in years of related work experience in Supply Chain. Certification (APICS/ IBF) desirable.
Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
Experience with ERP (Oracle and Oracle Cloud & Advanced Planning Systems desirable).
Production Planning or manufacturing experience in a Medical/Pharmaceutical or Consumer industry.
Ability to apply project and personal leadership to successfully achieve project, team and individual goals.
Ability to share knowledge and personal experience with peers. Coach others when appropriate.
Ability to build strong collaborative relationships, considering diverse perspectives and styles.
Ability to target their communications as appropriate for the audience and make presentations to a small to medium sized audience.
Ability to influence others in a matrix environment.
Ability to challenge the status quo and evaluate processes to determine if refinements would enhance speed of results and productivity or quality &/or Ability to work with Continuous Improvement tools.
Data mining & reporting skills through MS Excel or equivalent.
Strong organization skills and an aptitude for planning.
Accuracy with attention to detail.
Proactive approach.
Proficient user of MSOffice, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
Ability to translate complex situations into simple working solutions.
Ability to provide direction to production planning resources.

Responsibilities

Responsible for creating a constrained weekly/monthly production schedule.
(MPS) and ensuring raw material availability.
Planning and freeze period management of production activities (Rescheduling, Reworks, Outsourced WIPS).
Maintain material inventories within OCA Finish goods goal, while minimizing excess, obsolete and expired products; develop overall inventory projections for specific products
Enables meeting inventory targets.
Align a three month committed production schedules with value stream managers in terms of resources, shifts, equipment, earned hours and shutdowns.
Communicate and escalate low finish goods inventory report ownership & updates.
Resolve any manufacturing conflicts for site/ portfolio. Manage impact and communication of manufacturing driven change management.
Provide Production Planning input into S&OP process. Provide transparency of risks and opportunity. Participate in S&OP forums as applicable.
Lead/support required compliance process activities for Change Control, Deviations, Events & CAPA’s and assess respective supply impact.
Provide specific input to the End-to-End Supply Chain configuration process and ensure planning master data (safety stock, lead times) in the ERP system are up to date.
Ensure participation in new product launch meetings and new product forecasts as a business partner.
Execute planning activities derived from products phase-in phase-out.
Meeting all operational KPIs – Inventory, DOH, customer backorder and OTD.
Support quarterly Finance budgeting process for Inventory and earned hours.
Support the Repair Centers where applicable.
Other Essential Duties as required.