Production Planner

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Under the direction of the Production Control Manager, the Production Planner prepares the production forecast and Master Production Schedule. Tracks and communicates order status, lead time and capacity guidelines.  Maintains capacity management and creates plans.  Works closely with Inventory management in planning and scheduling raw material and production requirements to ensure actual production is in balance with customer demand.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

Responsible for the safety of employees and self.

Publish and maintain Capacity Reporting. 

Monitor progress of production orders to resolve problems affecting production schedules and expedite the flow of material.

Estimate lead times for new orders and/or quotation purposes.

Estimate capacity constraints and work load in various work centers. 

Work with department managers to balance the work load and resources in order to meet customer demand.

Lead/facilitate department team efforts to solve and standardize procedures.

Coordinate with inventory control to ensure proper inventory levels are maintained to enable manufacturing to meet master production schedules and ensure on time delivery.

Communicate changes in schedules and respond to order status updates.

Participate in daily meetings (“MDI”) to provide status updates related to production orders.

Estimate capacity constraints and work load in various work centers.

Serve as a Liaison between Operations and Sales/Marketing. Work with Sales/Marketing to gather current and historical customer demand data to support logical decision making.

Maintains close communication and relationships with vendors that perform outside processing steps.

Communicates priorities and monitors on-time status of operations awaiting completion at the vendors.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:  Requires a B.S. degree in the following, Operations/Production Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Business Management or a related field or equivalent experience required. Five or more years of progressively responsible production and inventory planning related experience with a working knowledge of Master Production Schedule systems

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively communicate with other employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:  Ability to read and equate metal weights and sizes in order to establish accountability for movement in and out of the plant.  Basic understanding of the principles of statistics.

REASONING ABILITY:  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: APICS certification preferred.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Personal computer knowledge of SAP Software (or equivalent), Excel, Word and PowerPoint preferred.  Demonstrated leadership and teamwork skills required.  Experience in the supervision of subordinates preferred.  Supply Chain / Material Management / and Production Planning experience required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle or touch objects, tools or controls; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel and crouch.

Specific visions abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:  The work environments described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable