Production Control Planner

Description

Summary:

Member of the Production Control Team working in a team environment, the successful candidate will be responsible for oversight of the full production scheduling in our Mebane, NC location. There will be a strong need and focus on data analysis. The responsibilities of this role will involve a significant amount of interaction with Revere's Customer Support and Process Engineering Teams.  These tasks will include, but are not limited to, providing delivery dates to customers, scheduling stock replenishment orders, expediting orders, working w/ Supervision and Process Engineering to relieve bottlenecks, monitoring inventory, and analyzing on-time production metric. Monitor, control and make recommendations for improvements to various phases of manufacturing processes and equipment.  Lead projects focused on continuous improvement of production processes. Must have strong presence on the production floor and complete daily tasks to monitor process during development. Must be comfortable with large datasets, able to interpret and analyze data to generate meaningful and sustainable process improvements as pertaining to the production system. 

Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Must be willing to travel to Rome, NY for training period and periodically as required.
• Implement and drive the production schedule to ensure an optimization of production resources to meet market needs, customer delivery and lead time requirements.
• Set up new orders in MTMS and remakes as needed
• Review and release orders in ORTM
• Maintain stock replenishment orders
• Call orders complete as needed
• Reapply and change order numbers as required
• Maintenance of mill booking analysis report (weekly capacities vs orders)
• Repromise orders as needed to level load weeks and provide reason codes for why those orders are late
• Alignment of supply and demand across production areas to ensure clear direction and visibility.
• Work with manufacturing to expedite operations where necessary to minimize impact on customers and establish a recovery plan for customers if commitment date cannot be met.
• Analyze production systems and implement improvements based on findings.
• Coordinate with Process Engineering, Customer Support, and Production teams to create the best possible production plan. 
• Analyze datasets to create sustainable improvements to production cycles.
• Attend periodic meetings with operations, quality, sales and marketing.
• Report on key process and product metrics to various levels of the organization
• Utilize process engineering methods to create and modify:
• Attend periodic meetings with operations, quality, sales and marketing.
• Participate on various production and quality teams. 
• Provide operator support and learning

Qualifications:

• Analytical and problem solving capabilities, ability to overcome obstacles.
• Exposed to Lean Manufacturing concepts. Working knowledge of pull systems and kanbans a plus.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Proficient in use of MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• 3 years if experience in a technical position in a manufacturing environment. 
• Familiar with various quality and process control techniques. 
• 3-5 years of experience in the manufacturing and quality management of primary metals (copper, steel, aluminum), mechanical and physical material testing of metals and experience In problem solving methodology, containment and corrective action processes, APQP techniques, and through knowledge of statistical process control techniques.

Special Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, will be regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. 
• May be exposed to wet or humid conditions. 
• May be exposed to outdoor weather conditions. 
• May be regularly exposed to high noise environments. 
• May be exposed to extremely dusty environments. 
• May be exposed to chemicals used in the manufacturing process 

Education / Training:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Minimum:

• Bachelor degree in physical science (physics and chemistry) or mechanical engineering, mechanical technology, chemical engineering, industrial engineering, operations management, logistic, mathematics or equivalent experience. Knowledge of statistical techniques is a plus. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products. 

Preferred: 

• Bachelor degree in material science or metallurgy with six sigma black belt certification and AIAG certification. 
• Experience with heavy industrial machinery.
• Production Planning experience in manufacturing environment. 
• Experience with mill startup.
• Experience with lean manufacturing concepts 

Salary Description: 

$51,300 - $65,000

Benefits: Revere offers a comprehensive benefits package plan that includes:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Salary : $51,300 - $65,000