What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planner position at Precision Castparts?
Purpose
This role provides planning management and strategic direction for the Planning and Program Management Teams. This Position is responsible for assisting operations management to maintain product flow; development of robust manufacturing plans to achieve all metrics including throughput; earned standard hours and variable costs. Position is also responsible for scheduling raw material to ensure smooth flow to manufacturing to meet customer requirements.
Essential Job Functions
This role provides planning management and strategic direction for the Planning and Program Management Teams. This Position is responsible for assisting operations management to maintain product flow; development of robust manufacturing plans to achieve all metrics including throughput; earned standard hours and variable costs. Position is also responsible for scheduling raw material to ensure smooth flow to manufacturing to meet customer requirements.
Essential Job Functions
- Develop a facility model in Factory Planner for use in scheduling facility as well as conducting “what-if” analyses.
- Analyze and report projected press set-ups/batches, work center load hours, cycle times, inventory, etc. using Factory Planner.
- Analyze work center capacity and model plan based on infinite capacity or finite capacity as required.
- Development and communication of dynamic manufacturing plans to achieve key results.
- Specs and design changes in Product Engineering and Metallurgy.
- Liaison between all areas of the shop, sales and planning.
- Timely, accurate reports to management and customers.
- Develop policies and procedures that will allow the plant to run from reports generated by the factory planner system.
- Works closely with Estimating for the set-up of Bills of Materials and routers.
- Provides scheduling information to shop personnel for the RMC process.
- Liaison with customer sourcing.
- Coordinates scheduling of all operations within Grafton facility to assure timely delivery to customers.
- Coordinate and monitor the scheduling, pricing, and technical performance of company programs.
- Performs additional tasks as required.
- College degree and/or a minimum of ten (10) years’ supply chain experience.
- APICS certification or supply chain courses preferred.
- Knowledge and experience with planning systems (ERP, MRP, etc.).
- Excellent communication and analytical skills.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in Manufacturing (Steel making, automotive or forging preferred).
- Preferably familiar with metal manufacturing processes.
- Theoretical and practical understanding of the Theory of Constraints.
- Ability to see the “big picture.”