Planner

Job Description

Job Description

Full Steam Staffing is Now Hiring a Logistics Planner in Salinas, CA. Apply Today!!

Job Title: Logistics Planner

Location: Salinas, CA

Pay Rate: $21-23/hr

Schedule: 1st Shift (AM)

Benefits: Medical, Dental, AD&D, Paid Sick Leave

Job Summary:

Responsible for the creation and maintenance of the short-term planning, rough-cut analysis, daily production line schedules and plant capacities utilizing advanced planning tools. Plans production schedules and establishes line sequencing to reduce production changeovers, increase production/line efficiency, minimize downtime, level inventory, optimize labor, reduce changeovers and meet customer demand.

• Monitors raw material inventories, tracks progress of production, and reviews factors which affect the schedule; directly accountable for maintaining Finished Goods Safety Stock Levels in accordance to the next days Suggested Order demand.
• Provide clear, concise communication to all levels of the organization with the ability to influence decisions through fact finding/data analysis.
• Responsible for coaching, guiding and mentoring new team members on technical aspects.
• Educate, train and conduct skills evaluations on Scheduling/Planning processes and procedures.
• In the event of a problem, the scheduler will diagnose and recommend the corrective action necessary to fix the issue. In addition, the Scheduler will communicate with and inform the necessary parties about any resulting schedule changes, prior to implementing the changes.
• Responsible for creating a daily production schedule and establishing line sequencing that increases throughput, increases efficiency, maximizes utilization, reduces changeovers, minimizes down-time, meets plant capacities and reduces same day changes to schedule.
• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of the short-term planning, rough-cut analysis, daily production line schedules and plant capacities utilizing advanced planning tools.
• Plans production schedules and establishes line sequencing to reduce production changeovers, increase production/line efficiency, minimize downtime, level inventory, optimize labor, reduce changeovers and meet customer demand.
• Monitors raw material inventories, tracks progress of production, and reviews factors which affect the schedule; directly accountable for maintaining Finished Goods Safety Stock Levels in accordance to the next days Suggested Order demand.
• Provide clear, concise communication to all levels of the organization with the ability to influence decisions through fact finding/data analysis.
• Daily interface with Production Planning Manager, Scheduler, Buyers, Production, Receiving, QA, Production, Customer Service and Transportation to ensure that department and Company goals are continuously attained.
• Responsible for coaching, guiding and mentoring new team members on technical aspects. Educate, train and conduct skills evaluations on Scheduling/Planning processes and procedures.
• In the event of a problem, the scheduler will diagnose and recommend the corrective action necessary to fix the issue. In addition, the Scheduler will communicate with and inform the necessary parties about any resulting schedule changes, prior to implementing the changes.

Full Steam Staffing will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act. You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Full Steam Staffing is concerned about a conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report. Find out more about the Fair Chance Act by visiting the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s Fair Chance Act webpage.

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