Production Planning Analyst

About the role

As a Production Planning Analyst, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. You will make an impact by planning and scheduling production work centers, monitoring work center output to meet customer requirements and improve work center operational efficiency, communicating with Production Planning, Lean Value Stream, and Operations Team members, participating in the Tier process, working closely with the business to understand customer requirements and forecasts, collaborating with manufacturing teams, value stream leadership, and Supply Planners to prioritize and resolve supply constraints, balancing service, inventory, and cost to meet business targets, optimizing and maintaining production lot sizes, production cycles, and safety stocks, managing capacity by identifying, resolving, and escalating production constraints, managing assigned working and non‑working inventories to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets, executing production planning standard work using supply chain tools, IT systems, and processes, providing planning analysis to support data‑driven decision making, and identifying, leading, and participating in Continuous Improvement projects that improve customer service, inventory investment, flow, and supply chain efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule production work centers
• Monitor work center output to meet customer requirements and improve operational efficiency
• Communicate with Production Planning, Lean Value Stream, and Operations Team members
• Participate in the Tier process
• Work with the business to understand customer requirements and forecasts
• Collaborate with manufacturing teams, value stream leadership, and Supply Planners to prioritize and resolve supply constraints
• Balance service, inventory, and cost to meet business targets
• Optimize and maintain production lot sizes, production cycles, and safety stocks
• Manage capacity: identify, resolve, and escalate production constraints
• Manage assigned working and non‑working inventories to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets
• Execute production planning standard work using supply chain tools, IT systems, and processes
• Provide planning analysis to support data‑driven decision making
• Identify, lead, and participate in Continuous Improvement projects that improve customer service, inventory investment, flow, and supply chain efficiency

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree, or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• One (1) year of experience in Supply Chain and/or Logistic (including graduation research, internships and graduation projects) in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain, Operations Management, and/or Business Analytics from an accredited institution
• ASCM (APICS) CPIM certification preferred (if not complete at hire, will be part of professional development plan)
• Two (2) years combined experience in supply chain, planning, logistics, and/or manufacturing in a private, public, government or military environment
• Experience with SAP ERP Software
• 3M systems experience (Factory Planner, PMCS/IMES, Peoplesoft)
• Experience in Production Planning
• Knowledge of Supply Planning (SP), Demand Planning (DP), and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes
• Strong data mining, data analysis, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills
• Advanced Microsoft Suite experience
• Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, and self‑motivational skills
• Experience working on cross‑functional teams
• Experience utilizing Lean and Six Sigma / Continuous Improvement methodologies

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position is $84,595 - $103,394, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience.

Benefits

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/ (includes Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.).

Work location: Fully on‑site at 3M Knoxville, IA. Travel: May include up to 5% domestic/international. Relocation Assistance: May be authorized. Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).