We are global, we are impacting the lives of millions every day, we are making a difference!  

At Amcor we are inspired to change the packaging industry and are taking on the aspirational challenge to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. Through our products and global footprint, we are in a unique position to truly make a difference in the packaging space. Our products impact the lives of millions of people across the globe every day from food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home- and personal-care, and other essential products. Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 50,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 250 sites.   

Will you be next to join our journey towards a more sustainable future? At Amcor we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visit www.amcor.com.  

Job Description

To manage and direct the activities of the Production Planning and personnel at the Lebanon facility.  Includes education and knowledge to maintain inventory control for raw, WIP and finished goods materials, maintaining safety stock levels for standardization project, balancing ship date compliance, customer needs and machine efficiencies.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

• Provides a clear vision of goals and expectations for the Production Planning department and is experienced with the tools and training required to meet those expectations.
• Manages and has a strong understanding of the activities of all direct reports, including employment interviewing, recommending salary changes, completing performance evaluations, counseling, telephone monitoring, discipline and recognition, maintaining incident files, training, and all other elements of management.

• Manages the scheduling of orders and monitors material availability to insure that we will meet the scheduled ship date to our customers.  Communicates unexpected delays to Customer Service.
• Manages the backlog and works closely with the Production to overcome bottle necks and balance capacity loads across machines.
• Prepares and distributes a daily schedule.  Also conveys issues/concern during the daily production meeting with customer service group and production team.
• Evaluates capacity for each machine.
• Schedules all production equipment in most efficient/service oriented manner.
• Communicate daily with the manufacturing staff on the current and future scheduling issues.
• Coordinates R&D and Sales projects and maintenance downtime with manufacturing supervision.
• Analyzes and prepares Production Planning reports such as back log reports, rerun reports, etc. as required on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and reports to upper management the findings and/or potential issues.
• Oversees issues with SAP such as: material master issues, routings, production standards, machine and order status, etc.  Contact necessary person if data is inaccurate.
• Oversees and organizes responsibilities for Production Planner.  Is trained and has experience in all areas for which staff has planning responsibility.  Establishes cross training programs for direct reports implementing back up plans for vacations to maintain administrative efficiencies.

• Acts as a liaison and participates in cross-functional teams with Operations, Shipping, Production, Planning, and Customer Service.

• Monitors progress of key orders and identifies delays.

• Monitors stock in raw, work-in-process and finished goods to maintain set inventory levels and prevent aged inventory.  Implements processes to review monthly inventory levels with Production Planning and makes decisions on moving aged inventory when applicable.  Monitors and maintains safety stock/standardization project with cross-functional locations as well as reviews w