Production Planning Analyst*

Job Description:

Production Planning Analyst*

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Production Planning Analyst, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Planning and scheduling of production work centers, monitor work center output to meet customer requirements and improve work center operational efficiency

• Procuring material and communicating to suppliers on future requirements to support production plan

• Strong written or oral communication with Production Planning, Lean Value Stream, and Operations Team members along with active participation in the Tier process

• Working closely with the business to understand customer requirements and forecasts.  Working closely with the manufacturing team, value stream leadership, and Supply Planners to determine how best to prioritize and resolve supply constraints and balance service, inventory, and cost to meet business targets

• Parameter Management:  optimizing and maintaining production lot sizes, production cycles and safety stocks to deliver the desired balance between inventory and service

• Managing capacity including identifying, resolving, and escalating production constraints

• Managing assigned working and non-working inventories to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets 

• Executing the production planning standard work utilizing supply chain tools, IT systems, and processes

• Providing a high degree of planning analysis to support data-driven decision making

• Identifies, leads, and participates in Continuous Improvement projects that improve customer service, inventory investment, flow, and supply chain efficiency

Your Skills and Expertise 
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)

• Two (2) years of combined experience in planning, inventory control, and/or supply chain in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in supply chain management, logistics, operations management, business administration or engineering from an accredited institution

• Three (3) years of experience in supply chain within a manufacturing plant

• APICS certification, or demonstrated progress toward completion

• Experience with Factory Planner or another MRP or ERP application

• Knowledge of Supply Planning (SP), Demand Planning (DP), and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes

• Experience leading and/or participating on cross-functional teams

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence others and work effectively in a team environment

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications (specifically Excel)

• Strong analytical and decision-making skills

Work location: On-site at 3M Menomonie, WI

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic and/or international travel

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

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