Production Planner

Every day, ANDRITZ continues to deliver successful innovative solutions to our customers globally. Why are we so successful? Because we are passionate and love what we do! We are at the forefront of future engineering technologies, with solutions that ensure the success of our clients in key industries that are shaping the future of the world we live in.

 

Why Join ANDRITZ?

 

At ANDRITZ Separation, you'll join a global leader in separation technology, supporting industries that help shape the future. As a Production Planner, you'll play a key role in keeping our manufacturing and service center operations running efficiently by coordinating production schedules, optimizing material flow, and partnering with engineering, manufacturing, warehouse, and customer service teams to deliver high-quality solutions to our customers.

 

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex planning challenges, collaborating across multiple departments, and making a measurable impact on operational performance. You'll have the opportunity to work with custom-engineered products, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, and build your career within a collaborative, innovative, and safety-focused organization.

 

Position Summary
This position is responsible for coordinating and expediting material/work order flow through the service center facility. Requires focus on custom made engineered components, assemblies and rebuilds. Maintains system data and develops daily/weekly production schedules in conjunction with sales, engineering, warehouse and purchasing departments. Creates and maintains bills of materials, routings, generates work center schedules and other reports as needed.

 

Major Duties:
•    Create & maintain manufacturing routings using engineering drawings and other tools
•    Coordinates and implements maintenance of Material Master
•    Enter, release and close manufacturing direct and indirect production orders
•    Maintain and distribute Preventive Maintenance and Tool Calibration schedules to the shop
•    Cross check engineering releases for accuracy to ensure that the latest revision levels of drawings are distributed to the shop
•    Field questions regarding order status for Sales/Customer Service
•    Create and manage daily production schedules for the facility to meet customer delivery dates (required knowledge of scheduled demands)
•    Monitor shipping and on-time performance while working with manufacturing to address shortfalls
•    Develop and implement process improvements with Production, Engineering, Warehouse and Customer Service on a daily basis to ensure accurate planning, scheduling and shipping
•    Create and maintain daily and monthly reports as needed
•    Expedited parts within the production environment
•    Maintain and query information in SAP
•    Help troubleshoot manufacturing and operational problems as they arise
•    Review customer specifications and work with sales and customer personnel to help ensure we meet customers’ requirements
•    Prepare vendor drawing packets for RFQ's
•    Participate in developing manufacturing and repair requirements for each specific job as required
•    Working with existing engineering standards ensures that specific procedures and the associated QA requirements are included in all production orders for manufacturing
•    Help develop repair and manufacturing standards not yet established
•    Assist as needed in providing cost estimates.
•    Liaison between manufacturing and engineering for all technical issues.

The person in this role will report to the Service Center Engineer.  Key interaction will be with manufacturing and repair personnel at the facility, aftermarket sales personnel, customers and engineering.  The candidate will need to be self-motivated and able to handle / coordinate a heavy workload.  

 

Needs to be able to prioritize workload while assessing the value of each job/task at hand. 

 

Travel is required on occasion but is estimated at less than 10% with occasional visits to key suppliers, customers, engineering offices, and other company facilities.  

 

The role of this position is to provide technical expertise for the facility.  Success is measured by accurate operation estimates and schedules resulting in a even flow of production orders through all departments in the shop.

 

Note: This description is not intended to be all inclusive, and employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by their supervisor

 

Specialized Job Skills
•    Thorough knowledge of modern office practices and procedures by use of office machines, internet resources an