Production Planner

Responsibilities

• Review open sales orders to determine customer requirements
• Take ownership to coordinate delivery of parts to expedite flow of material to meet production schedule
• Execute MRB messages to push, pull, or release Work Orders and release manufacturing work orders to the warehouse for kit picking
• Collaborate with appropriate teams to ensure daily, weekly, and monthly goals are met
• Create action plans to ensure goals are met and ensure follow through and completion of actions
• Cordinate between warehouse and purchasing on material shortages and notify Sales of any schedule impacts to customers
• Proactively coordinate/expedite manufacturing builds to ensure schedules are achieved
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Follow all policies and procedures; initiate changes to existing processes to improve overall effectiveness

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution; and experience which has provided both theoretical and practical knowledge in the field
• Minimum of 5+ years Production Planning experience with 2+ of those years being in manufacturing
• Enterprise Resource Planning or Material Resource Planning experience is required
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated capability working with Microsoft Office suite of products; proficient in Excel formulas, look-ups and pivot tables
• Query capability is a plus