What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at Applicantz?
Hybrid opportunity at Tualatin OR, Wednesday is mandatory in office. Regular day shift Mon-Fri, 40 hrs/week | (8am-5pm)
Top Requirements:
- Communication, teamwork and problem solving.
- The position will be supporting groups like manufacturing and spares so being able to work collaboratively is important.
- Managing production orders and often have to make changes and updates that require a general readiness to solve somewhat complex problems.
- SAP experience and tech savvy-ness are nice to have, but we are confident in our ability to train the job as long as candidate have a willingness to learn it.
Duties:
- Plans, schedules, coordinates and/or monitors final approval of products through the complete production cycle.
- Works from engineering plans and production specifications to establish production schedules, labor loading, and capacity requirements.
- Coordinates production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules.
- Master Scheduler: Provides input to management; schedules and/or interfaces with marketing, sales, production and engineering managers.
- Works to resolve (in case of design changes) labor and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions.
- Oversees the master schedules and ensures comprehensive compliance with materials requirements for manufacturing.
Skills:
- This role frequently works cross-functionally with MFG, logistics and strategic order management teams. Need to be able to communicate clearly and comfortably in small to medium cross-functional group settings.
- Experience in MFG or production planning preferred, but not required
- Experience with below programs preferred, but not required (SAP, Quickbase, Microsoft Office Suite, Power BI)