Production Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Minimum BA or BS degree or equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum five years’ production planning, scheduling, and material control experience in a Military/Aerospace/Commercial hybrid environment or comparable equivalent.
• Proficiency with computer automated scheduling systems (ERP system, Preferably SAP).
• Familiar with shop floor scheduling and component issuing/kitting
• Strong understanding of entire flow of production from kit/part pulling to processing finished goods and end customer acceptance
• High mix/low volume manufacturing experience
• Must be able to perform the following:
• Demonstrate the ability to lead and guide others effectively to achieve desired outcome
• Objective and analytical oriented/Problem solving skills
• Production shop loading and planning skills
• Fundamental Lean Manufacturing and high rate production skills
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools
• Excellent attention to details, prioritization, continuous monitoring and evaluation
• Ability to deliver on time and budget
• Ability to express self clearly in verbal and written form – ability to interface with all levels of staff
• Project Planning and Scheduling skills
• Ability to handle multiple programs and tasks simultaneously and efficiently
• Ability to work in a comprehensive team environment
• Skilled in Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing production plans to meet customer demand while optimizing resource utilization
• Creating and maintaining production schedules, considering lead times, production capacities and resource constraints.
• Coordinates production schedule and activities with support departments and resolves production constraints related to methods, tools, fixtures, materials, and manpower.
• Attend/lead daily meetings to prioritize and plan production activities to maintain on-time delivery
• Communicate production schedules and changes to relevant teams and stakeholders.
• Communicate the status of job orders to internal and external customers on regular basis
• Participates in the generation of the daily/weekly/monthly production build plan and issues the plan to the assembly, inspection and test areas.
• Reports manufacturing metrics from individual cells and combines information into daily reports.
• Ensures all white board cellular metrics are updated for each area
• Identifies schedule and MFI’s (material flow interruptions) and develops and implements corrective actions.
• Follows up on status of past due orders
• Participation in product rescheduling and modification of the production run (pulling in or pushing out). This includes interfacing with the Programs Office, Contracts Administration, quality, operations, engineering and customer representatives
• Coordinate with Department Manager to develop policies and procedures
• Manage and track the released work orders to confirm production fulfills planned requisites.
• Determine the sequence of the production work orders to be released based on material availability and manufacturing schedule priorities.
• Identify and resolve material shortages required for the planned production work orders.
• Review all material needs based on the manufacturing schedule requirements for sales orders and appropriate inventory levels.

Benefits

• medical coverages
• 401k
• paid time off
• excellent work schedules including a 9/80 work week