Associate Planner, Production

Overview/Purpose:  

The Associate Planner, Production ensures that the Mountville manufacturing plant adheres to corporate objectives to maintain appropriate target inventory levels for all SKUs/UPC codes. The incumbent will interact with the Operations teams to coordinate manufacturing production schedules and communicate adjustments based on various business and environmental inputs/constraints. The purpose of this role is to deliver fill rate goals, while minimizing obsolete and excess inventory.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Set weekly production schedule, factoring in orders, forecast and production capacity.  
• Analyze, plan, and release production orders to manufacturing while verifying materials and equipment required for production are available. 
• Creates Purchase Orders in Prism for finished goods production and associated production schedules for contract manufacturers. 
• Confers with management regarding mfg. capabilities, production schedules, and other considerations to facilitate production. 
• Update data and inventory transaction accuracy as required by ERP. 
• Manage rush requests by manually adjusting ship dates and coordinating with production to ensure customer commitments are met.  
• Support day to day operations to ensure timely production, release, and shipment of product.  
• Coordinate any major activity relating to the plant floor that may affect the scheduling of jobs or available net capacity of critical constrains and adjust the plan as needed.  
• Reconcile schedule attainment for daily, weekly, and monthly plans. 
• Work close with Manufacturing team to meet capacity and production requirements.  
• Ensures accurate deployment of finished goods to meet customer demands across the distribution network.   
• Utilizes KPIs and attainment tracking to monitor plant efficiency and to ensure compliance with co-packer contractual obligations. 
• Assists with other projects, as needed. 

• Requirements: 
• New starting wage is $27.00 / hour (commensurate with experience and location).
• Minimum of two years’ experience in master scheduling or production planning capacity.  
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred. 
• Previous experience in a purchasing or scheduling role in a manufacturing environment. 
• Understanding of manufacturing and production processes. 
• Knowledge of inventory planning and risk. 
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize multiple priorities and strong attention to detail. 
• Computer skills including M