Master Planner and Scheduler

COMPANY:

Lanco - our parent company - is a strong, large, growing, international, private and family-owned company with more than 70 years of cherished history. Within it is our flagship and industry-leading Mi-Jack Products company which this position supports. We are a high-performing team and a great place to work. Our employees are the key to our success and help us stand out from our competitors. We have strong core values, culture and community.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Demand Management. Creates the demand plan or consensus forecast for planning company materials and capacity requirements. Uses customer orders, sales forecasts, sales history, and the business plan.

· Sales & Operations Planning. Creates the production plan at the product family and monthly levels for a rolling 18-month time horizon. Uses the demand plan and rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) for critical resources and bottlenecks.

· Master Production Scheduling. Creates the Master Production Schedule (MPS) at the end item SKU and weekly levels. Uses the production plan, customer orders, and detailed capacity planning. The MPS then uses the product bills of material to drive detailed material requirements planning (MRP) for materials and components.

· Communicates and collaborates with stakeholders including sales, engineering, purchasing, plant scheduling, production, logistics, finance, and top management.

· Drives continuous and process improvement. Identifies, resolves and finds root causes to planning issues. Tracks metrics and contributes to improvements in capacity utilization, material flow, throughput, on-time delivery, lead-times, plant productivity, and inventory.

· Applies strong knowledge of products, suppliers, customers, business and production processes, and people.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

· Master Planner and/or Master Scheduling position experience with a complex, large/plant-wide, cross-functional scope. This includes master production scheduling, sales and operations planning, and demand planning processes. Able to hit the ground running.

· Minimum 5 years’ experience and a strong understanding of manufacturing, supply chain, and operations. This includes planning, scheduling, demand, and replenishment.

· Demonstrated continuous improvement. Examples of initiating, leading and problem solving with business metric improvements in throughput, on-time delivery, lead times, plant productivity, cost, and/or inventory.

· ERP & MRP Systems subject matter expertise. Epicor preferred but not required.

· Strong analytical skills including data analysis, optimization, Excel, Power BI.

· Works in the office. We have some but limited remote work flexibility.

· Travel occasionally and/or contribute to international calls at extended hours < 15%.

· BA/BS 4-year degree.

QUALIFCIATIONS PREFEERED:

· Industry leading company experience and best practice systems, processes, and tools.

· Complex and highly engineered products experience that are relatable to large cranes.

· Certifications include APICS CPIM/CSCP, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.