Production Planner/Scheduler

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities

• Analyzes customer demand and optimize build plans for specific products, keeping materials and resource requirements while balancing material availability, resource constraints and capacity.
• Establishes and maintains planning attributes for new products and parts within the ERP system to ensure accurate setups.
• Audits BOMs to ensure structural integrity and alignment with manufacturing and costing strategy.
• Periodically reviews critical ERP planning attributes (e.g. lead times, safety stock) to sustain system accuracy and plan stability.
• Manages ECOs developing implementation strategies and executing changes across the supply chain and production floor.
• Releases required work orders in a timely manner and promptly closes them on completion after reconciling variances.
• Proactively monitors materials shortages and production flow thru the plant to ensure build plan remains on schedule.
• Plans and directs Production and Inventory Control for Operations to ensure customer commits and inventory objectives are met.
• Collaborates with the production team to execute the schedule and achieve on-time customer deliveries.
• Works directly with Purchasing to ensure purchased material is available to meet the scheduled requirements.
• Serves as the SME for the ERP system providing on-site technical support, writing ad-hoc reports, and staying current on system capabilities.
• Identifies and drives software procedural improvements to the Operations process to eliminate waste.
• Relays relevant information to management regarding material shortages, potential schedule interruptions, and possible equipment maintenance that would affect a smooth and timely production input.
• Analyzes customer demand information, forecast, orders, labor, and material availability and develop a flexible yet efficient master schedule.
• Reviews part availability including quality approval prior to scheduling.
• Manage the issuance of purchase orders as recommended by the planning system or as requested by management.
• Manage PO approval process, PO revisions, supplier confirmation and storage of all purchase orders on a secured and shared site.
• Manages supplier bidding process with the creation of RFQs submission to suppliers and summary returned information as requested by the Director of Manufacturing.
• Controls Supplier's compliance to on-time delivery, terms and conditions, supply contracts and product specifications.
• Participates as needed in the Product Specification creation/revision process and facilitates execution with suppliers.
• Drive sourcing solutions for existing products as directed by executive management.
• Manage assigned products by maintaining or reducing costs of product components, packaging and finished goods.

Education and Experience

• 3 years of related Materials Planner experience; preferably in a contract manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Industrial Engineering preferred.
• Add a preference for candidates from heavy industrial, power electronics, or complex electromechanical manufacturing environments.
• Good understanding of critical ERP planning attributes.
• Hands on experience in ECO planning and Implementations.
• Good working knowledge of Oracle or similar ERP software with regards to planning.
• Must be Advanced level of experience in Microsoft Excel.