The Production Planner will be responsible for achieving planning deliverables in assigned and across manufacturing cells related to supply and demand planning, work order management, data validation, and capacity analysis for manufacturing. Accountable for strategic and tactical execution of assigned tasks to support a consistent plan that achieves sustained revenue growth through KPIs and business objectives.
Essential Job Functions:
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.
Qualifications - External
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.
Education/Technical Skills:
Bachelor's degree desired or 3-5 years of relevant experience.
APICS certification in CPIM preferred.
Advanced Excel experience preferred.
ERP/MRP systems experience preferred.
Report writer experience preferred.
Lean/Six Sigma experience preferred.