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Senior Production Planner

Charter Casting · Woodstock, IL · 1 mo ago
On-siteManagement$82k–$103k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description of company and role. We need headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We have: About the role (company description and role description). Responsibilities: list of duties (What You'll Focus On). Requirements: maybe "What We're Looking For" includes requirements. Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Experience". Skills: maybe list of skills. Benefits: listed. Pay: salary range given. Schedule: not mentioned (no schedule info). So we omit Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. No application instructions. No EEO etc. We need to use

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          • . Let's craft. About the role: combine the two paragraphs about company and role. Keep as is. We'll need to ensure we preserve all substantive information: include company description, role description. Let's write:

            About the role

            Charter Manufacturing is a fourth-generation family-owned business where our will to grow drives us to do it better. Join the team and become part of our family! Charter Aarrowcast and Charter Dura-Bar combined in 2021 to form Charter Casting - the world's largest producer of continuous cast-iron bar stock and a leading innovative cast metal solutions provider. Charter Casting Shawano (formerly known as Aarrowcast) is North America's premier green sand foundry, offering an unmatched range of complex iron casting solutions to leading OEM and Tier 1 suppliers' customers. Charter Casting Woodstock (formerly known as Dura-Bar) is the preferred choice over steel, castings and aluminum for many applications in various industries, providing solutions that improve performance and result in significant long-term cost savings for customers. The Senior Production Planner will play a key role in optimizing manufacturing operations by developing and executing daily production schedules that balance customer demand, inventory, and operational capacity. This role will partner closely with commercial, logistics, and operations teams to solve complex scheduling challenges, improve production efficiency, and lead initiatives that drive continuous improvement.

            Now Requirements: education and years experience. We could list: - Associate degree or equivalent work experience. - Seven plus years’ related Supply Chain or Operations experience. That's it.

            Requirements

            • Associate degree or equivalent work experience.
            • Seven plus years’ related Supply Chain or Operations experience.
            Skills: list of skill items. Let's extract from "What We're Looking For" after those two: - Proven strong leadership skillset. - Shows desire for mentoring. - Able to train Production Planner I and II. - Proven analytical and problem-solving skills. - Excellent communication skills to relate to a variety of functional areas within the organization. - Excellent organizational skills balancing daily and weekly tasks with internal customers. - Strong interpersonal skills in collaboration and ability to accomplish goals within a team environment. - Capacity to understand and work with cross functional areas such as: Plant operations, Commercial, Logistics, Scheduling, and Accounting. - Demonstrated skills influencing and driving results without direct authority between internal customers. - Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative team environment. - Self-motivated with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple task/projects. - Proficient in use of MS Office Software. We'll keep as list.

            Skills

            • Proven strong leadership skillset.
            • Shows desire for mentoring.
            • Able to train Production Planner I and II.
            • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
            • Excellent communication skills to relate to a variety of functional areas within the organization.
            • Excellent organizational skills balancing daily and weekly tasks with internal customers.
            • Strong interpersonal skills in collaboration and ability to accomplish goals within a team environment.
            • Capacity to understand and work with cross functional areas such as: Plant operations, Commercial, Logistics, Scheduling, and Accounting.
            • Demonstrated skills influencing and driving results without direct authority between internal customers.
            • Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative team environment.
            • Self-motivated with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple task/projects.
            • Proficient in use of MS Office Software.
            Qualifications (Preferred Experience): - Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply Chain Management. - APICS CPIM or CPSM certifications. - ERP System experience in planning/scheduling modules. - Six Sigma/Lean Training. - Experience in reporting writing. - Demonstrated negotiating skills.

            Qualifications

            • Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply Chain Management.
            • APICS CPIM or CPSM certifications.
            • ERP System experience in planning/scheduling modules.
            • Six Sigma/Lean Training.
            • Experience in reporting writing.
            • Demonstrated negotiating skills.
            Responsibilities: list from "What You'll Focus On". Let's copy each bullet exactly. - Develop, execute, and monitor Production Schedules that align customer service and delivery requirements to while optimizing production efficiencies for assigned project/

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