Production Planner

Summary:

This role is responsible for coordinating and expediting the flow of work and materials within or between departments according to daily and weekly production schedules to meet customer requirements while minimizing manufacturing, distribution costs, and inventory investment.

Essential Functions:

• Create and maintain schedules to successfully meet shipping dates according to forecasts and orders while maximizing efficiencies. Create and/or recommend revisions to production schedules as needed.
• Utilize released and created work orders to ensure compliance with the planned demand to support sales and inventory levels while utilizing available capacity.
• Prepare scheduling reports, delivery performance metrics, and supply chain analyses as required.
• Provide leadership visibility over potential issues that may impact production scheduling (i.e. raw material/equipment issues).  Communicate with internal customers as to the status of open orders/jobs and exceptions impacting on-time delivery. 
• Support and maintain a high quality of data for planning parameters (stocking policies, lead time, safety stocks, etc.).
• Participate, support and lead improvement projects and special initiatives required by the planning organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business or related field. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 2+ years of relevant planning and/or logistics experience.
• Experience using production planning software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.