Description

Job Description

Job Title: Production Planner

Reports to: Planning Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: Plymouth, WI 

Travel: Domestic and International travel required at times (0% - 10%)

Position Summary: The Production Planner is responsible for creating plans for managing inventory programs and maintaining plant finite schedules. Planner liaises with their counter parts in Production, Quality, Warehouse and Customer Service to address normal business processes of manufacturing. Job impacts between $30-50 million in product sales, between $20-40 million in production cost and $3-5 million in inventory value.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Regularly meets with assigned plants to arrange orders into the optimal sequential work schedule and provides appropriate lead times to customer service for customer orders.

· Examines production specifications and capacity data, and performs mathematical calculations to determine production processes, tools, and human resource requirements for NPD.

· Meets weekly with assigned plants to review prior week’s performance for schedule adherence and overproduction. Unacceptable performance is identified and corrective actions taken. Frozen schedule is established.

· Manages stocking programs to assure demand to forecast performance and supply execution are graded. Action is taken to identify out of bounds results to bring program back within plan.

· Reviews FG inventory within warehouses to identify orphan or SLOB and initiates action to address.

· Reviews assigned plant lead times weekly, identifies areas needing supply support to reduce to targeted lead time levels and takes appropriate actions to ensure success.

· Other duties as assigned by their manager

Competencies:

• Strong analytical skill set and demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams to quickly analyze problems and develop effective solutions.
• Proficient in Excel;
• Proficiency in use of MRP systems and knowledge of MRP workflow and scheduling systems.
• Strong understanding of inventory management principles related to demand management (forecast & firm), impact on supply plan (make & buy) and inventory plan (projected levels to manage).
• Understand principles in the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) business process.
• Demonstrated ability to interface with, and maintain effective relationships with, all functional departments and employees in a team-oriented environment. 
• Flexible and the ability to quickly adapt to changes in the work environment and manages competing demands.
• Well organized, dependable, punctual, strong work ethic with exceptional integrity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Requirements

Education Requirements/Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in engineering, business, economics, or similar discipline; 
• Experience in production order management (10 years),
• Experience in inventory management (5 years) 
• Or combination of both education and experience
• Preferred CPIM and/or CSCP certification

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.

This document in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities of, and the duties to be performed by, the employee occupying this position. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from, any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper.