Production Planner

About Us

By combining a rich legacy in the power and gas compression space with pioneering technology, INNIO brings our customers affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy solutions for today—and tomorrow. We are helping to meet today’s energy needs with 64 GW of installed capacity and 48,000 of our powerful Jenbacher and Waukesha engines, which can be found in more than 100 countries. And, by harnessing our history of energy industry firsts along with the power of digital innovation, we will continue to deliver for the future. 

Our fuel-flexible Waukesha gas engines are designed for reliable performance in isolated, mission-critical and demanding applications, delivering dependable energy even under high-stress conditions. It’s time to take engines to a place no one else can. Welcome to a World of Innovation and Inspiration! Welcome to INNIO!

Role Summary/Purpose

The Production Planner will be responsible for all day-to-day planning activities focused on the kit production, placement, and expediting of supply orders in accordance with a defined material strategy at both internal and external sites. They will interact cross-functionally to help understand changing requirements, execute supply orders, and expedite components to help meet customer expectations. The person in this role should demonstrate a strong analytical and customer-focused mindset and utilize their expertise of materials planning concepts to ensure an uninterrupted, optimal supply of parts.

Essential Responsibilities

• Overall ownership of short and long-term supply plan for kit items meeting business objectives and customer requirements.
• Proactively identify and anticipate shortages, collaborate with other planners to expedite, and resolve shortages, highlight delays, and escalate shortages as needed to eliminate affecting internal and external customers.
• Review, release, reschedule, and manage WIP jobs and necessary material transactions to align supply and demand and support customer escalations.
• Work with all levels of personnel (hourly, professional, lead, and senior management) in resolving issues, tracking material availability, and advising on material shortages via calls, in-person, emails, and meetings.
• Manage a high impact and/or volume of make supply orders across multiple supply chains to ensure on time delivery.
• Understand issues and opportunities and drive process improvements to mitigate and reduce fulfillment risk caused by both internal and external issues.
• Maintain SOP’s documenting Oracle/Excel transactions and other steps for all responsibilities.
• Use problem solving skills to work through fulfillment and supplier issues.
• Have daily communications with internal customers (Customer Service, Planning, Sales…).
• Create, review, update necessary reports to effectively communicate to all levels of the business.
• Complete Service Item Activation To-Do's as required.
• Perform inventory transactions to support reallocation.
• Work extensively within Oracle ERP/ASCP and Microsoft Excel.
• Works within a team setting and under minimal guidance.
• Other duties as necessary.
  
  

Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with supply chain focus or related field (or 3 years of comparable industry experience).
• Working knowledge of Material Requirements Planning module – Oracle, SAP etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• APICS Supply Chain Certification.
• Knowledge of and experience managing WIP jobs with multi-level BOMs.
• Must be a collaborative team player, willing to take ownership of decisions and be a results-oriented self-starter.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, drive change at all levels of the organization, and excel in fast paced business environment.
• Consistent track record of meeting / exceeding key performance objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, assess, prioritize tasks, risks, resources, milestones, and deliverables with frequently changing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and coordinate several projects simultaneously lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact.
• Ability to analyze problems, identify root causes and provide efficient solutions.
• Significant planning, scheduling, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated strong customer service and detail-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently under tight time deadlines with a high tolerance for ambiguity, ability to work with multiple & competing. priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and influencing skills with a strong customer focus.
  
  

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