Specialist, Production Planning

Job Title:

Specialist, Production Planning

Job Description:

The Role:

The ideal candidate will have an eye for continuous improvement opportunities and a knack for problem solving.  You will thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment as you work hand-in-hand with Operations, Supply Network Planning, and Business Management teams to ensure supply strategies are aligned with business goals and objectives.  Come ‘roll your sleeves up’ and make a difference as you play a key role to help us achieve Operational Excellence!

Responsibilities:

- Coordinate daily production order reviews

- Monitor production processes to ensure that execution and completion is occurring as planned

- Identify material and resource constraints and coordinate and expedite resolution with responsible parties

- Monitor and communicate capacity constraints to manufacturing

- Rearrange workload within the framework of customer requirements and work center capacity to resolve constraints when applicable

- Review MRP messages daily for assigned products and generate work orders to satisfy demand and reschedules as necessary to present the correct requirements to manufacturing and procurement

- Ensure on-time delivery of customer orders by monitoring and updating work order schedules for validity, accuracy.

- Ensure customer service is informed of any on-time shipment delays, including an explanation for the customer.

- Review and maintain critical Master Data elements that pertain to Scheduling including safety stock levels and minimum work order quantities where necessary

- Review and maintain work center data for assigned areas of responsibility

- Review and respond to all Engineered Change Requests and Quality Notifications activity for assigned product lines

- Assemble work order job packets to support manufacturing

- Collaborate across functional areas to ensure data integrity in SAP

- Complete miscellaneous tasks as assigned in support of the larger organization and production goals

- Analyze reports, measurements, and external benchmarks to identify opportunities for continuous improvement in manufacturing areas

- Work to understand root cause and corrective actions for process failures relating to scheduling, planning and execution

- Adhere to company policies, procedures, and ethics codes

Traits we believe make a strong candidate:

- Bachelor’s Degree preferred, but candidates with relevant experience alongside a High School Diploma or Associate’s Degree will also be considered

- Strong analytical capabilities and ability to organize large data sets, analyze trends and make recommendations

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Ability to stay organized in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful, environment

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

- SAP PP module and work center experience and route planning knowledge is strongly preferred

- Experience in working in an ISO 9001/14001/45001 environment a plus;

- Candidate must have the capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.