Production Planner

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the manufacturing production plan and create manufacturing orders per plan
• Optimize production schedules in accordance to customer demand and available capacity
• Accountable for downstream replenishment and timely release of manufacturing orders
• Identify and address short-term supply constraints within the weekly process (long-term constraints within monthly process); analyze daily supply/demand alerts and address or escalate accordingly
• Interface with QA and warehouse staff regarding rejected/defective materials, making the necessary arrangements with operations or procurement to ensure prompt replacement
• Participate in Supply Plan development and in establishing planning time fences for aggregate Supply Plans and for detail Master Plans
• Translate the Production Plan into a schedule for producing or acquiring components, materials and services
• Maintain and provide valid lead time data to sales and marketing organization to guard against over-committing company resources and/or parts and materials
• Identify and resolve conflicts with supply and demand, and availability of capacity in conjunction with Operations Leadership

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience creating and managing feasible and balanced supply plans, in accordance with demand, to support targets consistent with customer requirements for short, medium and long-term capacity planning
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships and collaboration key stakeholders
• Ability to proactively diagnose and address potential issues in supply shortage or customer service interruption (e.g. resource requirements planning constraints)
• Possess a 'customer - first' mindset to understand customer needs and exceed customer expectations
• Possess a strong understanding and awareness of the principles of extended Supply Chain management and fundamentals of Supply Chain design and strategy
• Data mining reporting skills through MS-Excel; specifically V-lookup and Pivot tables
• Ability to drive continuous process improvements and lead small scale projects
• Experience proactively seeking to leverage existing IS capabilities to improve current and future Supply Chain performance (e.g., systems, reports or metrics)
• Ability to apply appropriate process improvement tools, techniques and Supply Chain metrics to measure, analyze, diagnose and improve future performance
• Must have a strong attention to detail efficient, accurate, timely and thorough, with focus and attention to detail
• A strong understanding of a range of production planning and execution systems

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business, Industrial distribution, or similar field
• 3-5+ years production/planning/scheduling work experience in a manufacturing supply chain
• Strong ERP systems and computer software experience (e.g. SAP, S4/HANA, JDE, Excel, etc.)
• Manufacturing Planning experience with high-customization, high-mix, low-volume manufacturing
• Proficiency in MS Office, Word

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• APICS CPIM certification
• Leverage Sigma certification

Language Skills

• Ability to read and understand English instructions

Mathematical Skills

• Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division

Work Environment

Office and Manufacturing