Senior Production Planner

Sonoco • Milwaukee, WI

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About The Position

Sonoco’s Senior Production Planner schedules manufacturing equipment and raw materials to efficiently meet customer demand, minimize downtime and changeovers, use equipment effectively, maintain appropriate inventory levels, and ensure on-time delivery. The role has indirect customer contact to support excellent customer service and reports directly to the Plant Manager, taking direction from leadership functions including operations and administration. It is based at Sonoco’s Milwaukee, Wisconsin facility and supports a complex 24/7 operation with multiple delivery points and potentially difficult supply-chain and vendor-quality issues.

The position provides administration and supervision of production control and planning, warehouse/planning, shipping/receiving, purchasing, and storeroom functions as directed. It oversees planning and production scheduling for cans, ends, and plates throughout the plant, and works with Procurement and Supply Chain on the purchase of raw materials, dunnage, coatings, and packaging supplies. It also supports customer service, customer order coordination, transportation, production reporting, inventory controls, and plant safety participation.

Requirements

• Oracle and QAD experience required.
• Communication, operations, vendor-management, and computer-literacy skills, including Oracle, Outlook, and Microsoft Office.
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strategic thinking, attention to detail, and flexibility.
• A four-year degree is preferred; four or more years of experience may substitute.

Nice To Haves

• A four-year degree.

Responsibilities

• Administer and supervise 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 to purchase raw materials, 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; include scrap and finished-goods shipments.
• Provide daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly production, spoilage, sales, and production-schedule data.
• Maintain records for raw-material and finished-goods inventory reporting; manage and review inventory reconciliation and advise on resolution of problems.
• Coordinate and review semi-annual inventory.
• Supervise receipt, storage, and control of production raw materials; initiate substitution requests as needed and maintain and review rough-cut capacity planning.
• Arrange ordering and shipment of metal and supplies with group purchasing as needed.
• 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 plant purchasing on implementing the central stores reporting system and seeking competitive pricing of goods and services.
• Review and order ODMs needed for production.
• Assist Customer Service Representatives with customer forecasts and, as needed, handle all aspects of SMP Processing customer service responsibilities.
• Participate actively in the safety process, including personal safety and 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.
• Quarterly target bonus of 12.5%.

What This Job Offers

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