What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner/Scheduler position at CPV Manufacturing?
Summary
The production planner/scheduler is responsible for planning and managing the flow of product through order fulfilment process to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company's productive capacity.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
The production planner/scheduler is responsible for planning and managing the flow of product through order fulfilment process to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company's productive capacity.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Coordinate and optimize the order fulfilment process using MRP system, including scheduling the Inspection and Assembly processes from first inspection to final packaging to ensure on-time delivery for our customer orders.
- Assist with planning other manufacturing processes including parts to be machined.
- Work closely with all operations personnel to ensure schedules achievable and make scheduling changes across departments where required.
- Ensure routing times are accurate in the ERP system with most up-to-date times to be able to depend on the system's planning capabilities.
- Analyze sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements.
- Maintains and updates shortage and backlog reports and other production related reports as required.
- Works with all other departments, including quality and sales, to provide scheduling and delivery information to ensure they can meet their process commitments.
- Interacts with the sales department to communicate changes in anticipated delivery dates.
- Interacts with manufacturing personnel and management as needed on a daily basis to resolve issues regarding manufacturing efficiencies or additional information requested from manufacturing, customer service or accounting.
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- At least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing planner scheduler role
- Technical experience with ERP systems and Microsoft office products, especially Excel
- Strong problem-solving and organizational skills
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Ability to gather and analyze information, develops solutions, and use logic and reason
- Strong technical capacity including understanding of MRP, inventory levels, planning and scheduling.
- Cost Consciousness -- ability to work within an approved budget, develop and implement cost saving measures
- Ability to read and interpret written information
- Ability to understand a sense of urgency and shift gears when necessary to accommodate for changes in scheduling for expedited orders
- Work environment is in the primarily in the office
- Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time
- Ability to wear PPE
- Competitive salary commensurate on experience
- Generous PTO plan
- Major medical and dental
- Company-sponsored STD and life insurance
