What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at Analogic?
At Analogic, we work together to create life-changing technology. We value your unique skills and abilities and invite you to join our team in saving lives by supplying transportation security professionals with leading-edge aviation security screening equipment. We offer great benefits, diverse and passionate team, work-life balance and continuous career advancement.
Job Summary
The Production Planner plays a crucial role in ensuring the efficient planning and execution of production activities within the organization. This role involves coordinating production schedules, managing inventory levels, and optimizing resource utilization to meet customer demands while minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Benefits
Job Summary
The Production Planner plays a crucial role in ensuring the efficient planning and execution of production activities within the organization. This role involves coordinating production schedules, managing inventory levels, and optimizing resource utilization to meet customer demands while minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Material Scheduling: Schedule and release material requirements according to an established schedule to ensure timely production.
- Order Fulfillment: Ensure customer orders are delivered within established timeframes, coordinating with relevant departments as needed.
- Engineering Change Management: Initiate Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) when restructuring of the bill of materials is necessary to maintain product accuracy and efficiency.
- Documentation and Material Planning: Generate documents to support incoming products and develop, control, and maintain material plans for assigned products.
- Ensure regular material consumption.
- Inventory Management: Maintain inventory of selected products and options. Analyze current and forecasted inventory to determine appropriate levels for optima.
- inventory turnover. Recommend obsolescence or scrapping of materials based on usage.
- Issue Resolution: Resolve engineering and documentation issues by researching and coordinating with internal groups to ensure smooth operations.
- Education: BS degree or equivalent required.
- Experience: Five years of experience in production planning, preferably in a manufacturing or production environment.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in ERP systems and advanced planning tools (e.g., SAP, MRP systems).
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and make data-driven decisions.
- Organizational Skills: Excellent organizational skills to manage production schedules and inventory effectively.
- Communication Skills: Effective communication skills to collaborate with internal teams and ensure alignment on production goals.
- Stationary Position: Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
- Operate Office Equipment: Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery.
- Communicate Information: The ability to communicate accurate information and ideas so others will understand.
Benefits
- 401k with company match vested immediately.
- HSA/HRA company contribution
- 9/80 schedule: every other Friday off!
- 8 weeks paid parental leave.
- Healthcare for now and healthcare as your family and health change
- On-site Gym facility
- Continuous Education Pathways
- Free Parking
- Breakfast & Lunch Café on site
- You will be joining a passionate, driven, and diverse global team!