Site Integrated Planner

Altium Packaging • Tracy, CA

13h • Onsite

About The Position

The Site Integrated Planner is a proactive, strategic thinker whose skills contribute to the efficient, systematic and profitable operation of the manufacturing plant. Responsible for creating production plans and schedules and coordinating materials and workforce to build our products on-time, and at the highest level of quality. The role includes evaluation and analysis of data, coordination with sales, production and materials teams, and resolving issues to ensure delivery of finished goods and service product. Create efficient planning and scheduling processes or methods to attain production goals. Ceate daily, weekly and monthly build schedules for the production lines. Assess current finished products inventory to determine additional needs and or disposition of excess and items held for rework. Review packaging and ingredient inventory to ensure needed supplies are available for production of the schedule. Identify, measure and report Key metrics which drive customer needs such as on time in full, produced vs. scheduled and target inventory levels. Enter the needed production orders into planning software. Schedule materials into the facility from third party warehouses to support the schedule. Update the system planning parameters. Monitor work progress throughout the day to ensure production is on track to the daily schedule and communicate with Customer Service any foreseen issues of meeting the customer orders. Working directly with the Demand Planning Manager, Customer Service, Sales Operations, Sales, Product Management and Operations Management to determine appropriate production schedules that best meet customer and sales demand. Generate revisions to the schedule due to variations in raw materials, production and customer needs. Establish manufacturing lead-time on regular orders to meet delivery dates for new orders. Review new sales/production opportunities to determine if they meet plant capacities and capabilities. Work directly with procurement team to schedule material delivery from storage or suppliers. Reasonable mandatory overtime may be required due to business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Manufacturing Supply Chain or directly related field a plus 3 to 5 years of advance planning (finished goods / final product) experience.
• 3+ years production raw materials planning, or analyst experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to problem solve complex issues that arise from inventory, capacity and / or ERP systems.
• Must have strong working knowledge of Food Safety and Regulatory business standards, practices, policies, procedures and state and federal laws and regulations including but not limited to HACCP, GMP’s, SSOP’s, OSHA and Labor Laws.
• Knowledge of all aspects of plant operations and management; including scheduling, processing, packaging, material flow, inventory, efficiency management, cost control, capacity planning, safety and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and tools (Kaizens, improvement workshops, etc.), and continuous improvement techniques.
• High level of proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas, pivots, if/then).
• Knowledge of mathematics and statistical data analysis.
• Self-starter who seeks out ways to improve processes and drive standard work.
• Ability to be effective in a fast paced, metric driven environment.
• Solid understanding of materials flow and inventory signals (MRP, Kanban, Min/Max).
• Excellent verbal and written communication (role is both vendor and internal customer-facing).
• Driven and guided by own energy, commitments or willingness to translate ideas into action.
• Results orientation – continually expresses a predominant concern for doing things better than some established standard of excellence and seeks to accomplish critical task with measurable results.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels in the organization.
• Accepts accountability.
• Ability to handle stress.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data and develop action plans based on results.
• Detail oriented and follow-through.
• Ability to use discrection and judgment in decision making.
• Able to foster an environement of teamwork and diversity.
• Strong leadership skills, team player, results oriented.
• Well organized: able to set priorities/goals and maintain focus and follow through on multiple tasks simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

• Experience scheduling in a bottle production environment preferred.
• APICS or CPM certification a plus.
• Working knowledge of Quality preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create efficient planning and scheduling processes or methods to attain production goals.
• Ceate daily, weekly and monthly build schedules for the production lines.
• Assess current finished products inventory to determine additional needs and or disposition of excess and items held for rework.
• Review packaging and ingredient inventory to ensure needed supplies are available for production of the schedule.
• Identify, measure and report Key metrics which drive customer needs such as on time in full, produced vs. scheduled and target inventory levels.
• Enter the needed production orders into planning software.
• Schedule materials into the facility from third party warehouses to support the schedule.
• Update the system planning parameters.
• Monitor work progress throughout the day to ensure production is on track to the daily schedule and communicate with Customer Service any foreseen issues of meeting the customer orders.
• Working directly with the Demand Planning Manager, Customer Service, Sales Operations, Sales, Product Management and Operations Management to determine appropriate production schedules that best meet customer and sales demand.
• Generate revisions to the schedule due to variations in raw materials, production and customer needs.
• Establish manufacturing lead-time on regular orders to meet delivery dates for new orders.
• Review new sales/production opportunities to determine if they meet plant capacities and capabilities.
• Work directly with procurement team to schedule material delivery from storage or suppliers.
• Reasonable mandatory overtime may be required due to business needs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Generates management reports and completes analysis of packaging metrics.
• Participates as a member of the Plant Operations Leadership Team and serves on special project teams as needed.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining professional networks, participating in professional organization.

Benefits

• In addition to medical, dental and vision plans, company holidays and vacation days, tuition reimbursement, learning and training opportunities, bonus potential, and a 401(k) plan with company contributions, Altium Packaging locations offer rewards and recognition programs and opportunities to make a difference in the community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees