Production Planner

Description

Responsible for planning and overseeing production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company’s productive capacity as well as overseeing inventory levels.

Requirements

Essential Functions

• • Establish, review, and manage a master schedule.

  • Evaluating purchase orders to create suitable production schedules.

  • Estimating the amount of material, equipment, and labor required for production.

  • Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production.

  • Coordinating production operations in accordance with material, labor, and equipment availability.

  • Recommending viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality.

  • Effecting changes to production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met.

  • Compiling status and performance reports and submitting them to management in a timely manner.

  • Promptly informing the relevant departments of changes to current production schedules.

  • Identify and implement process improvements within the supply chain and manufacturing to enable overall strategic improvement.

  • Plan, organize, and control the master schedule that balances the overall capacity, material availability, inventory levels, and customer service levels required to meet business objectives.

  • Become subject matter expert with our ERP system.

  • Forecast production, level load production across multiple departments, and identify potential corrective actions to balance capacity; escalate hindrances to production schedule.

  • Responsible for reporting backlog status, past due, production tracking, order priorities, material requirements, or other required reporting.

  • Proactively review material supply and demand to determine push/pull actions appropriate to support manufacturing.

  • Proactively manage and resolve capacity constraints with manufacturing.

  • Develop and maintain close interpersonal relationships with other areas of the business to optimize the scheduling of products.

  • Responsible for analyzing, improving, and controlling MRP settings to support an efficient flow of material in and out of the facility.

  • Supervise and coordinate Planning, Procurement, Production Control, Inventory Control and Shipping.

  • Coach, mentor, train, or assign training to the team to improve performance.

  • Integrate sales orders into the production schedule and coordinates availability of materials, supplies, and resources as needed to meet required dates.

  • Responsible for following, improving, and updating documented processes associated with procurement, receiving, shipping, planning, and inventory control.

  • Other duties or tasks may be assigned as necessary to support company objectives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• • Time/project/capacity planning management skills.

  • Able to work independently with little supervision.

  • Able to maintain rapport with production staff by coordinating schedules, monitoring production flow and identifying solutions.

  • Competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook with ability to learn new computer software programs.

  • Knowledge and skill with MRP systems.

  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Ability to read, understand, and interpret production instructions and specifications.

  • Able to work in a team with co-workers to resolve work-related issues.

Education and Experience

• • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited 4-year institution.

  • Strong critical problem-solving skills

  • Strong analytical and organizational skills

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Proficient knowledge of ERP System is a must.

  • At least 5 years of related experience preferred.

  • Previous experience in production and quality control methods (ISO9001, AS9100 etc.) preferred.

  • APICS, CIPM, or NAPM, CPM certification preferred.

  • Proficient knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook.