Demand Planner

About the role

Electrical Thermal Solutions (ETS), part of Spirax Group, seeks a Demand Planner to join its team. The role involves developing and owning the production schedule for assigned areas, managing materials, and ensuring timely delivery commitments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the production schedule for assigned area.
• Responsible for material scheduling, updating ERP system, and editing routine documents.
• Create and schedule Manufacturing Orders (MOs) and Return Material Authorization (RMA) rework orders.
• Provides a check at the completion of MOs, assuring materials, scrap, and labor are issued.
• Facilitates communication between multiple teams internally and externally to analyze and identify risks associated with the master production plan.
• Makes delivery commitments on MTO products, involving checking uncommitted material and availability of capacity.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work area free of excess materials.
• Supports and involves in company, department, and/or safety policies, procedures, programs and activities.

Requirements

• Must be able to commute to the Cary, IL facility on a daily basis.
• 3+ years of experience with manufacturing demand planning.
• A technical degree in production, operations, or a complimentary discipline would be beneficial and/or equivalent experience in production scheduling within a discrete manufacturing environment.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business documents, technical procedures, or operating procedures.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence, effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and customers.
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing methods and techniques (i.e., Kanbans, data-driven thinking, RCCM).
• Experience and applied use of Microsoft Products, Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship, both now and in the future.

Pay

$65,000.00 - $80,000.00, depending on experience.