Senior Production Planner

Department: Supply Chain

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Valencia, California

Compensation: $75,000 - $80,000 / year

Description

The Production Planner will schedule, coordinate, monitor, and communicate the flow of products, through internal fabrication, to fulfill customer orders and maintain company’s “On Time Delivery” goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Use associated production-control related tools, processes, and systems to populate a production schedule and establish customer order commitment dates.
• Monitor products and materials in an efficient and effective manner, to meet schedule commitments.
• Review order due date schedules to determine priorities to regulate and direct material flow, by generating production starts, making lot-size adjustments considering yields, addressing material shortages, changing work orders, etc., to meet delivery requirements of the Business Key Performance Indicators (OTD, revenue.)
• Production capacity analysis, understand the bottleneck, compare to capacity of each production cell, give out capacity shortage alarm in advance 
• Monitor production actuals vs the production schedule, escalate deviations potentially impacting to customer service. Analyze gaps vs schedule, perform root-cause analysis and create action plan to increase adherence.
• Communicate material-flow in-process schedules and completion status updates to production department and business partners.
• Coordinate and submit material requirements/requisitions with material planner and purchasing.
• Confirm material supply/demand (shortages) before order commitment 
• Inventory management through the control on production flow
• Use good judgement, initiative and independent actions necessary to incur production accuracy and to prevent and eliminate shortage conditions.
• Interface with all levels of production management in resolving problems concerning shipments, shortages, engineering changes and traceability.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related discipline.
• Technical Certificate from an accredited educational institution in Supply Chain or Business.
• APICS certification preferred.
• 4+ years of experience in manufacturing operations field.
• Good logic and data analysis capability
• ERP systems experience (such as Oracle).

Benefits

What’s in it for you on Day 1:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• Prescription Drug Plans
• Basic Life Insurance 
• 401k plan with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Referral Program 
• PTO and Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays

Exciting Onsite Perks: 

• Free coffee available at our cafeteria
• Employee Appreciation Events

Knowles is committed to providing a competitive and fair total compensation package for all employees.
 
One element in our total compensation package is base pay.  The starting base pay for this role is targeted to be between $75,000 to $80,000 per year. 
Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to previous experience and skills acquired prior to joining Knowles, cost of living in the assigned work location, assigned schedule, and salaries of similarly situated peers at the company.  It is to be expected that candidates will come to us with different sets of skills and experiences and therefore will be paid at different points in the stated range.  We recognize that the person(s) we select for hire may be less experienced or more experienced than the role as posted; if this is the case, any updates to available salary ranges will be communicated with candidates during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Knowles Precision Devices prohibits pay discrimination and discrimination of any kind based on race, color, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or other legally protected status.

Notice to Staffing Agencies, Search Firms and Recruitment Agencies: The recruitment process at Knowles is managed through the Human Resources department. Knowles does not accept resumes submitted from 3rd party agencies outside of our system. To submit resumes, 3rd party agencies will need to be a pre-approved vendor with a valid contract in place, be actively engaged by Knowles to recruit for a specific position and have agency log in credentials to submit candidates to our careers porta