Production Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain/Logistics, Engineering required or 10+ years of direct planning experience in lieu of formal education.
• Team Player: Collaborates with key stakeholders, gains commitment to meet timelines, and influences others without direct authority.
• Driver and Goal Oriented: With limited guidance, identify tasks needed to support desired outcomes, and challenges potential delays to drive necessary actions for results.
• Clear Communicator : Strong written, verbal, and listening skills. Effectively communicates with external suppliers and internal stakeholders. Quickly and openly communicates challenges and proposes solutions. Prepares dashboards, presentations, or other information for management.
• Organized: Demonstrated ability to stay organized with multiple responsibilities and deadlines. Good decision-making and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented. Time management and workload prioritization capabilities are key.
• Flexible : Comfortable working in ambiguous situations with limited guidance from the Manager. Possesses a positive questioning attitude, able and willing to dive into the root cause.

Nice To Haves

• APICS certification in CPIM preferred.
• Advanced Excel experience preferred.
• ERP/MRP systems experience preferred.
• Report writer experience preferred.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage Planning responsibilities in cross-functional team meetings on supply availability, confirming delivery commits, support recovery plans related to unplanned quality and supplier-related events.
• Utilize MRP process to generate work orders, validate and convert supply ensuring timely release to manufacturing.
• Monitor/maintain Master Production Schedules for assigned manufacturing cells, delays to the schedule, root cause reasons for misses in assigned manufacturing cells.
• Collaborates with Purchasing, Production, Receiving, Quality, and Engineering to review the execution of production schedules, build plans, backorder status, and other potential schedule interruptions or rescheduling.
• Understand the manufacturing process to provide exception-based reporting on supply variances in daily stand-up reviews.
• Support emerging S&OP process and continuous improvement through demand forecast analysis and tracking key deliverables from cross-functional teams across manufacturing cells.
• Support cost reduction strategies through re-allocation of existing residual inventory.
• Lead project teams on continuous improvement projects. Monitor progress and collaborate with other departments.
• Develop and maintain tools in Excel to manage key metrics, review variances, and understand drivers and the impact of changes.
• Utilize tools to assess risk.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PTO
• 401K
• Health Insurance (medical, dental, optical)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave (mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents)