Planning Clerk B

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for career minded individuals that want to grow with a strong, stable, and outstanding organization. Here at TDK Components, we offer careers, not jobs, where we grow and promote our team members from within.

We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, vision, dental, and 401K matching. If you are looking for a company with an area-leading benefits package including a company-provided pension, TDK is the organization for you.

Job Summary:

The Production Planning Clerk helps prepare itemized schedules for customers per plan and relates any problems with meeting schedules to the appropriate management personnel. This person will keep accurate inventory progress and purchase orders per customer, communicating necessary information with customers. They maintain all records by keeping them updated and organized. Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.

Qualifications:

1. High school diploma or equivalent
2. Three or more years of experience in a production environment preferred
3. Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
4. Must have good communication organizational, leadership, and mathematical skills, work well under pressure, demonstrated past achievement, the ability to adapt to new situations, and excellent computer skills.
5. Must be able to type a minimum of 35wpm and have basic knowledge of standard office techniques.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

1. Good understanding of basic production planning concepts.
2. Proficient in Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Excel.
3. Good time management skills.
4. Excellent attention to detail.
5. Work well in a team environment.
6. Works effectively and relates well with others including managers, co-workers, and other individuals inside and outside the Company.
7. Exhibits a professional manner in dealing with others and works to maintains constructive working relationships.
8. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of changing situations.
9. Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.

Essential Duties / Job Responsibilities:

1. Charts inventory progress and inputs inventory data into the system.
2. Prepares purchase orders.
3. Maintains an accurate record keeping system.
4. Inputs ordered items for customers into the purchase order reports.
5. Keeps an accurate balance of customer purchase orders.
6. Posts achievement daily.
7. Helps with the revision of standards and other operating documents.
8. Helps prepare reports and data as required by the department.
9. Ensures safety by making sure personal protective equipment is used when required and by having it conveniently available at all times while in work area.
10. Helps maintain a neat, clean, and orderly work area according to 5S objectives.
11. Handles all chemicals according to the Hazard Communication Standard.
12. Notifies the Supervisor of any accidents or abnormal situations. Promptly reports and corrects, if possible, any unsafe conditions.
13. Performs other duties and responsibilities as requested by management.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk, sit, stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, reach with hands and arms, see, talk and hear.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is in a controlled physical environment protected from the weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is minimal.