Production Planner I

Position Summary

The Production Planner will create the Production schedule for one or various Value Stream area(s) to best satisfy current and forecasted demand, while meeting business objectives of safety, quality, on time delivery, competitive customer lead times, profitability, and inventory.  The Production Planner will also support daily management activities to ensure commitments are achieved, communicate order status to customer service, and ensure project management teams are supported. The role requires the above to be accomplished within Tecomet’s principles of continuous improvement, customer driven innovation and a win first culture, while meeting company financial and other performance metrics.

Principle Responsibilities

• Ability to understand and utilize MRP and how master data drives material requirement planning.
• The candidate must be able to plan all operations starting with the receipt of purchase orders through shipping of product.
• Assist the purchasing department with outsourcing processes.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels to meet and exceed inventory targets and turns; as well as seek opportunities to reduce inventory through various techniques such as lot size optimization, off-the-shelf vs. MTO analysis, Kanban, etc.
• Full understanding of re-order points and safety stock formulas; as well as the impact on different ways of calculating.
• Ability to create a production plan, understand level loading, capacity planning, sequential and concurrent scheduling to maximize production efficiency by minimizing change overs, down time, and over time.
• Lead production planning meetings and communicate when a gap exists between demand vs. capacity.   
• Work with manufacturing to come up with creative scheduling techniques and adjusting of resources to improve overall efficiency.
• Understand Production Attainment and working with manufacturing to fully optimize scheduling to ensure capacity is maximized and production orders are closed out on-time.
• Ability to drive root cause for missed shipments and help to implement corrective actions to ensure Customer fill rate targets are achieved and sustained.
• Proactively identify potential shortages against scheduled production orders and work with appropriate team to resolve these shortages to ensure on-time completion.
• Evaluate slow moving items and work with appropriate groups to propose clean-up, re-work, obsolescence, changes to lot sizing, stock status etc.
• Move materials as necessary in performance of duties.
• Communicate effectively both internally and externally at all levels.
  
  

Credentials/Experience

Qualification Requirements

• BS degree in Business Administration, Engineering or Supply Chain
• 3 years of experience within Planning and Procurement
• Must have experience with any modern ERP Systems.
• Production scheduling to manage open orders and driving the production planning process
• Provides information to weekly SIOP meetings
• Must be well versed in MRP/MPS systems
• APICS or CPM certification a plus or equivalent.
  
  

Experience/Educational/Training Preferred

• Six sigma certifications preferred.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
• Advanced Microsoft skills, particularly MS Excel, Pivot tables and ability to download and manipulate data quickly and easily using advanced functions
• Ability to apply LEAN concepts and good understanding of Pull systems
• Excellent communication and follow-up skills
• Advance Capacity Planning
• Able to communicate at all levels of the organization
  
  

Other Requirements

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee could be required to stand.  The employee could frequently be required to walk; use hand to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.  The employee could be required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.   The employee could occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job could include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Travel Requirements

No

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the Company.

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