Supply Chain Planner - Plant 3

Howmet Aerospace•Whitehall, MI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Supply Chain Planner role is responsible for anticipating and forecasting operational, maintenance, and manufacturing rhythms. This position reviews and communicates customer demand, helps to prioritize and schedule work, and ensures schedule attainment, throughput, and on-time delivery. The planner acts as a liaison between the customer and the plant, facilitating understanding of customer priorities and galvanizing efforts to achieve goals. This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage and monitor inventory and information accurately. The planner must be able to adjust plans without causing disruption and create replicable processes. Ownership of tasks, including tracking down necessary information and enabling the success of others, is crucial. The role demands balanced attention, focusing on areas of greatest impact, asking critical questions, and adjusting to customer demands, often on short notice. The ability to influence without direct reporting authority, represent plant interests, and deliver difficult news is also important. The outcome interpreter must have strong intuition, understand complexity and priority, be business-minded towards plant outcomes, and create new levels of performance by combining internal and external factors.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with 2 years of experience in production planning/scheduling OR 1 or more internships/development rotations in supply chain/production planning in a manufacturing environment OR AA Degree plus 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment with production planning/scheduling responsibilities OR 8 years of experience in production planning/scheduling in a manufacturing environment.
Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Nice To Haves

APICS Certification is preferred
Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
Self-starter and ability to manage multiple projects.
Demonstrates competent use of automated order system.
Solid base knowledge of manufacturing process and flow of material.
Strong quantitative analysis skills, including the use of Microsoft Excel.
Ability to develop and use planning strategies.

Responsibilities

Communicates with regular and prospective customers concerning requirements, talks with them regarding other customer service-related concerns, and answers any other questions.
Fields and promptly responds to inquiries from customers regarding status of key projects, open orders, and any unresolved issues.
Exercises direct responsibility for the tracking of open items, for quotation of changes to project work scope, for securing purchase order coverage, and for resolution of contractual issues delaying input or shipment of customer requirements.
Processes orders for assigned account portfolio. This includes order entry/maintenance, order review, acknowledgment to the customer, and resolution of items delaying either release to manufacturing or shipments.
Adjusts complaints concerning billing or service rendered, referring complaints of service failures to designated departments for investigation.
Draws up master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes, tools, and human resource requirements.
Plans and schedules work flow for each department and operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times.
Plans sequence of fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations for guidance of production workers.
Confers with department supervisors to determine status of assigned projects.
Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
Prepares production reports and lists of required materials, tools, and equipment.
Prepares purchase orders to obtain materials, tools, and equipment.
Performs a reconciliation of shipments on a daily basis.
Produces the final forecasts for the Business Center on a monthly basis.