Location: Hickory,NC, USA
Title: Production Planner
Location: Hickory, NC
Pay: 22 USD/HR
Duration: 6+ Months
Job Description:
Description:
Involves the overall planning, implementation, and optimization of activities and support required for the delivery of products and services to our business partners, from materials/service acquisition through shipment. Primary areas of responsibility include driving production order dating, scheduling, releasing to operations and pegging to shipments, supply chain-related project work, and data analysis. A series of operations performed in planning, making, and controlling the execution of customer requirements for assigned products. Maintains and controls the business strategies and system architectures to drive enterprise-wide solutions and create production plans (MPS) that are executable and driven to the plant with the highest accuracy via SAP.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
• Routinely report to management on status and performance for assigned products.
• Manage the master production schedule to drive materials for customer requirements and optimize required production fluctuation and inventory levels.
• Coordinate demand recognition for new products in MRP for both new product introduction and product transfers between plants.
• Review, analyze, and be accountable for compliance of delivery performance to the most critical and strategic customer contract requirements by customer set.
• Coordinate plans and execution with Product Line Management (PLM), Plant Planners, Engineering, and Plant Management.
• Support ongoing business team activities for assigned product line(s).
• Engage in materials coordination and capacity facilitation with divisional and plant procurement.
• Measure and compare actual production results against the production plan and forecast.
• Facilitate adjustments to ATP as required to reflect actual plant performance and realized production rates. Identify adjustments needed in resource allocations based on such changes.
• Support production planning/master scheduling activities, including order management, resource planning, delivery promising (ATP management), and production forecasting and reporting of actual manufacturing results vs. plan. Provide backup to certain planning functions.
• Serve as department liaison with the Production, Engineering, and Kaizen Departments.
• Work closely with production coordinators and team leaders to establish short-term and long-term expectations and execution of the production plan.
Required Education:
• BS in Supply Chain, Business, or technical field
Required Years and Area of Experience:
• 0 – 3 years of relevant experience
Required Skills:
• Ability to comprehend, analyze, and solve complex problems
• Demonstrates drive and commitment
• Ability to change priorities and tasks as necessary
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic, business/manufacturing environment
• Computer literate in MS Office
Desired Skills:
• Project Management
• Understanding aspects of inventory management
• SAP knowledge and experience
• Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks