Manufacturing Production Planner/Scheduler II
Job Summary
This individual will be responsible for planning, organizing, and maintaining the Shop Floor Schedule. The SFS is a planned production assembly schedule, in weekly capacity-constrained sections, that is derived from the Master Production Schedule. The goals of the Production Scheduler are production efficiency, velocity, and on-time completion of Shop Operations and Shop Orders to Original Customer Promise. The Production Scheduler works together with the Master Scheduler to ensure plant loading that results from the SFS neither under or overloads available capacity. The Production Scheduler also works together with Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, and Material Analysts to ensure plant loading from the SFS takes into consideration material availability.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 3-5 years of planning experience preferred
- APICS – CPIM certification is preferred or willing to obtain
- Highly-organized, open-minded & motivated self-starter
- Strong communication skills (verbal & written)
- Hands-on approach to monitoring production processes
- Proactive problem-solving methodology
- Ability to report findings and KPI’s to Production Control Manager
Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the Shop Floor Schedule (SFS), with the goal of achieving 90%+ on-time shipment to OCP.
- Drive high accuracy into the SFS for a rolling 4-week time period, to ensure plant capacity is effectively utilized to meet aggressive business growth goals.
- Develop an SFS that specifies the timing and sequence of shop operations and shop orders based on multiple inputs – Master Production Schedule (MPS), material availability, labor capacity, and project priority.
- Develop and maintain (in IFS) a clear view of plant demand/loading by Work Center (based on current scheduled SO loading and hours in routings).
- Maintain KPI's for Shop Order and Shop Operation on-time completion to (original) schedule.
Physical Demands And Work Environment
- Must be able to work in an office environment with a lot of sitting
- Must be able to tolerate a full day of computer screen viewing
- Some walking will be required to browse production on the shop floor
- Professional office environment
- General manufacturing environment