Nazdar is looking for a Production Planner to support our production teams in Shawnee by analyzing inventory, maintaining material levels, and coordinating production schedules. This full-time, in-office role is ideal for someone with production planning or inventory management experience and strong communication and computer skills.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzes finished goods inventory and raw material inventory; maintains appropriate levels, adjust quantities, adjust reorder points as required.
- Analyzes batch sizes and raw material levels; makes decisions to increase or decrease based on historical or projected sales.
- Analyzes idle inventory. Confers with supervisor, makes recommendations, implements recommendations.
- Generates a production schedule and batch tickets based on inventory analyses and production capacity.
- Reviews reports: inventory shortage, reorder, item coverage, ship list, and takes appropriate action.
- Assists all Production Planners and Production Scheduler in maintaining the Hot List.
- Reviews raw material shortages.
- Reviews rework, q stock, and quarantine inventories.
- Performs cycle count of raw materials and finished goods.
- Provides back-up assistance to the Production Planner and Production Scheduler.
- Completes transactions as requested by production personnel.
- Perform various clerical duties for production management team.
- Performs job according to pre-established safety, quality, and efficiency standard operating procedures.
- Assists in the enforcement of all company policies.
- Assists with other duties as directed or assigned by Planning Manager.
Qualifications and Skills
- A minimum of 2-4 years’ experience required in a Production Planning and/or Inventory Management role or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- A background in quality assurance using ISO programs highly preferred.
- A proven history of excellent performance both in work behaviors and results.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Microsoft office experience: Outlook, Excel, and Word; Strong computer skills and ability to learn new systems.
- Other system experience highly preferred M3, M1, and Red Zone.