Production Planner

About the role

Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Production Planner. This role is located at our Waukesha, WI site. The expected annual salary range for this role is $69,000 - $101,000 per year.

Responsibilities

• Locate work orders in-process and coordinate sequencing with Production Operators to ensure Internal Customer commitments are met.
• Establish, maintain, and ensure proper execution of a valid production schedule for all items.
• Create, release, print, and oversee all orders for each assigned product family.
• Analyze resource capacity and other constraints to optimize throughput, while minimizing manufacturing cycle time, inventory, and achieving on-time delivery goals.
• Direct daily work flow (WIP) through analysis of reports and input from cross-functional teams.
• Align and set priorities for the production plan considering shared resources across factory to maximize efficiency and material flow to ensure customer orders ship on time.
• Accumulate daily parts/material information to analyze and establish dates to meet and exceed customer delivery requirements.
• Communicate with cross-functional teams including: Customer Service, Engineering, Quality, Operations and Purchasing.
• Own metrics of manufacturing on-time delivery (OTM), throughput, and past due order reduction.
• Participate in and lead business processes improvement events such as Continuous Improvement Framework, kaizens and workshops in order to improve processes and reduce waste.
• Affiliate in the development and implementation of procedures and techniques which will improve the scheduling/planning function.
• Manage Assigned Projects utilizing a cross functional team.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• Two (2) years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• Two (2) years of experience performing planning or scheduling in a manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Experience with MRP/ERP system
• Demonstrated experience with Lean/Six Sigma principles utilizing: consignment, pull systems, Kanban
• Proven analytical, problem solving, project management and facilitation skills
• Expert knowledge with Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of institutional problem-solving tools/processes such as cycle time reduction and process improvement tools: Six Sigma DMAIC methodology, Kaizen, DOE, Pareto Charts, Statistical process control, Process mapping, Tree diagrams, Root cause analysis, Analytical software programs