Production Planner

Job Description

Job Description

**What makes us strong? **

Our employees in 50 countries worldwide – all working with passion to enable high-tech applications with our strong metals: tungsten and molybdenum.

At our Plansee site in Franklin, USA, we specialize in transforming semi-finished molybdenum and tungsten products into complex components—leveraging decades of precision manufacturing and engineering excellence.

Join a highly motivated team in Franklin, USA, where local expertise meets the global knowledge and values of the Plansee Group.

Responsibilities

• Plan production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and high utilization of available capacity.

• Maintain/set material master data, such as costing lot size, production lot sizes, safety stock levels (with approval). Mark and release cost estimates.

• Analyze, plan, and confirm sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements via SAP and FastPro.

• Review and plan new sales orders; create production orders; communicate critical dates to other departments as needed; provide timely confirmation of sales orders to the Sales department as per our marathon goals.

• Analyze the master schedule to ensure materials, manpower and resources are available to support the plan horizon.

• Establish production order priorities and work with the Production Scheduler to ensure priorities are maintained and executed to plan.

• Monitor exception messages and deltas and initiate changes to resolve production issues.

• Act as a point of contact for the Sales department on questions regarding order status updates and communicating changes in the schedule to the affected departments.

• Collaborate with Production Scheduler, and at times with Production Management to resolve production problems.

• Investigate and report the cause of critical material shortages and initiate corrective action as needed.

• Keep departments informed about completion dates, material changes or substitutions, and schedule modifications.

• Interface professionally with all departments, supervisors and managers as required.

• Ensure ISO/AS9100 compliance for all processes related to the purchasing, planning and execution of the production schedule, especially as they relate to ITAR/EAR work.

Qualifications

• Associates degree or other two year technical degree in a related discipline and three (3) years of related work experience. A combination of education and work experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. APICS certification a plus.

• Experience with SAP R/3 Logistics module (emphasis on Production and Production Planning) desired.

• Strong proficiency in MS Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook).

• Strong communication skills and effective at building relationships at all levels of the organization.

• Self-starter with the ability to prioritize and work with minimal supervision.

• Detail-oriented with strong problem- analysis and solving skills.

• Ability to work overtime as required by production/customer demands.

• Due to ITAR requirements, applicants must be authorized to access export-controlled information without a license.

Benefits

• Medical - 90% paid for with 100% reimbursement on deductible

• Dental

• Vision

• Flexible spending accounts

• Company paid life and disability insurance

• 401 K w/ company match

• Time off Benefits

• And much more!

The base compensation for this position is between 60-80k annually, commensurate with skill and experience level.

You should be proficient in:

• Production Planning & Scheduling
• AS9100 Experience
• SAP