Excellerate Production Planner- Olathe

A position at FTI can be the answer to your future career. In this role, you’ll be part of a progressive national leader in electrical planning, engineering, technology and energy services. FTI enables employee growth and success through industry-leading training and development, utilization of the latest industry technologies, and an uncompromised focus on safety. We recognize and reward top performers, offering competitive, merit-based compensation, career path development and a flexible and robust benefits package that boasts everything from paid training and tuition reimbursement to an award-winning wellness program.

The Production Planner role is responsible for creating, coordinating and managing activities related to production and raw materials. This role creates and maintains the short and long term production schedule based on demand planning, customer orders, internal capacity constraints and other factors affecting schedule compliance. Responsible for scheduling the product flow throughout the manufacturing process and ensure timely completion of orders by ensuring availability of resources. This position will have open communication with Excellerate leadership and project teams to distribute information about anticipated production and shipping dates.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: High School Diploma or GED

Experience: 2+ years of manufacturing experience

Travel: 0-5%

Work Schedule: Typical work hours are between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday – Friday; However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create production schedules for each production cell and adjust schedules as priorities dictate.
• Maintain up to date production cell work schedules.
• Monitor schedule deviations and adjust production as needed.
• Assist the Production Manager with weekly staffing/manpower projections.
• Assist Production Manager with shifting manpower as dictated by production needs.
• Communicate with job sites at time of order receipt and as production schedule changes could impact job sites.
• Collaborate with other production facilities to distribute work based on critical capacity factors.
• Monitor raw material delivery dates to ensure scheduled production can be completed.
• Provides daily & long term production/capacity planning based on needs pertaining to customer orders, due dates, cell/facility availability and compatibility.
• Daily coordination/partnership with production leadership, procurement and receiving staff to evaluate any changes needed in the production schedule.
• Service: Timeliness of materials. Assure that finished goods can be produced as scheduled, without interruption or down time.
• Receive, review, and assign all new customer orders.
• In collaboration with the operations and supply chain teams, drives continuous improvement to increase production quality and yields.
• Work closely with procurement/inventory management and sales/operations teams and processes to provide optimal supply levels and new product development processes.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

The job description and responsibilities described are intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended as a comprehensive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills or abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

SURGE your career forward!
Employees at FTI grow faster because they are a part of a nationally leading team of electrical planners, engineers, designers, electricians, and business professionals.

• Your Personal Growth: Build your career path by taking advantage of our industry leading training and leadership development programs.

• Leverage Technology: Our virtual design and build programs that offer the latest in robotic total stations, 3D scanning, virtual and augmented reality and drone surveillance and assessment.

• Uncompromised Safety: When we see others in our space averaging 2.7 safety rating and ours average .42, you know that we value you and your safety above all else.

We offer competitive, merit-based wages; career path development and flexible and a robust benefits package that boasts everything from paid training, tuition reimbursement and a top-notch wellness program.

We pride ourselves on a “Ground up Growth” mentality that puts you in the