Production Planner

Production Planning Coordinator

Responsible for planning and controlling all scheduling activities supporting assigned brands, balance production, and inventory levels with demand to master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and capacity utilization/staffing requirements.

The responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Develops operating plan summaries for assigned product families and selected SKU's including demand, inventory, and production data.
• Provides daily bucketed schedules by SKU to manufacturing and installs production compliance metrics to measure performance.
• Plans and prepares production schedules for manufacture of industrial or commercial products.
• Prepares master schedule to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data to determine manufacturing processes, tools, and human resource requirements.
• Plans and schedules workflow for each line and operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times.
• Coordinates manufacturing activities and monitors schedule performance against plan to maintain priorities and meet established schedules by meeting on a regular basis with cross-functional teams to resolve delayed customer shipments, component shortages, overtime, priorities, as well as identifying problems.
• Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.

Qualifications:

• Associate degree in Business Administration or related field Preferred
• 1-2+ years of experience in manufacturing and/or materials management, including at least one year in materials management.
• Experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and lean manufacturing processes.
• SAP experience is preferred, but not required

Pay rate $24-$26

Shift: 9am-6pm