Planning Manager

JOB REQUIREMENTS

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• Evaluates and analyzes data from the ERP system and available inventory quantities to improve processes and forecast production.
• Solves production schedule problems or material shortages and recommends procedures to enhance processes.
• Supervises the Schedulers and reports to the Director of Operations.
• Oversees the scheduling of customer orders into production.
• Manages and develops the Scheduling staff.
• Tracks and manages daily manufacturing workload against available manufacturing hours, and provides regular reporting on manufacturing status.
• Confers with Sales staff and management to communicate planned production and delivery dates.
• Provides reports of available production capacity and manufacturing activities metrics.
• Evaluates and analyzes long-term capacity and demand data for production areas.
• Implements and improves business processes as they relate to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and maintains information in ERP to report materials requirement planning (MRP) needs, shortage reports and other ERP reports that track production requirements and support activities.
• Determines material need dates for purchasing.
• Facilitates ongoing communication between purchasing, production and inventory control.
• Works closely with plant production control to ensure schedule accuracy.
• Works closely with program managers and plant production control to ensure the right activities are being worked at the right times.
• Reports weekly/monthly on production schedule status, commercial raw material inventory levels, pending non-confirming materials, and other key department indicators.
• Affords assistance in determining optimum inventory levels to support the manufacturing plan and inventory goals and objectives.
• Promotes and implements new improvement plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Training: Bachelors Degree

Benefits

• Bonus Plan
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacation and Personal Time
• Four Weeks of Paid Parental Leave with no waiting period
• 401K Plan with Employer Match (fully vested on day one)
• Company-Funded Short-Term Disability
• Health, Vision, and Dental insurance
• Quarterly Company Events and Lunches

Skills

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
• Production Scheduling
• Inventory Management
• Communication with Sales and Management
• Problem Solving
• Process Improvement
• Team Leadership

Pay

$140,000 + yearly

Schedule

Unspecified

Hours per Week

40