What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at SPRINGS Creative?
Summary of Position:
The Production Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating manufacturing operations to ensure customer orders are completed on time, printers’ full utilization within budget within budget, and to quality standards. This role works closely with production, purchasing, customers, and sales teams to optimize workflow, maximize efficiency, and maintain production schedules.
Responsibilities/Duties:
- Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules based on customer demand and production capacity.
- Coordinate with manufacturing, purchasing, and warehouse teams to ensure raw materials are available for production.
- Raw material planning and issuing purchase orders
- Set up BOM and product codes
- Work order and ERP troubleshooting
- Monitor production progress and adjust schedules to address delays, equipment downtime, or material shortages.
- Analyze production capacity, labor availability, and machine utilization to improve efficiency.
- Track work-in-progress (WIP) and ensure orders are completed on schedule.
- Communicate production status and delivery timelines to internal departments and customers as needed.
- Maintain accurate production planning data in ERP/MRP systems and prepare production reports.
- Collaborate with quality assurance to ensure products meet customer specifications and company standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve production processes, reduce waste, and increase productivity.
- Support inventory management by balancing production requirements with stock levels.
Minimum Qualifications Required:
- Associate's or bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Operations Management, Business, or a related field (preferred).
- 2–5 years of production planning or scheduling experience, preferably in textile or manufacturing environments.
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes, inventory control, and production scheduling.
- Experience using ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Excel.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and time management abilities.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and manage multiple priorities.
Competencies:
- Must be organized, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to multitask.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Assume liability for decisions made.
- Ability to make good decisions under pressure.
- Ethical Conduct
- Positive attitude
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Initiative
- Punctuality and Efficiency
- Reliability
- Time Management
- Ability to work weekends and off-shifts as needed.
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