Specialist, Production Planning

Job Title:

Specialist, Production Planning

Job Description:

The Role:

The ideal candidate will have an eye for continuous improvement opportunities and a knack for problem solving. You will thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment as you work hand-in-hand with Operations, Supply Network Planning, and Business Management teams to ensure supply strategies are aligned with business goals and objectives. Come ‘roll your sleeves up’ and make a difference as you play a key role to help us achieve Operational Excellence!

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate daily production order reviews
• Monitor production processes to ensure that execution and completion is occurring as planned
• Identify material and resource constraints and coordinate and expedite resolution with responsible parties
• Monitor and communicate capacity constraints to manufacturing
• Rearrange workload within the framework of customer requirements and work center capacity to resolve constraints when applicable
• Review MRP messages daily for assigned products and generate work orders to satisfy demand and reschedules as necessary to present the correct requirements to manufacturing and procurement
• Ensure on-time delivery of customer orders by monitoring and updating work order schedules for validity, accuracy.
• Ensure customer service is informed of any on-time shipment delays, including an explanation for the customer.
• Review and maintain critical Master Data elements that pertain to Scheduling including safety stock levels and minimum work order quantities where necessary
• Review and maintain work center data for assigned areas of responsibility
• Review and respond to all Engineered Change Requests and Quality Notifications activity for assigned product lines
• Assemble work order job packets to support manufacturing
• Collaborate across functional areas to ensure data integrity in SAP
• Complete miscellaneous tasks as assigned in support of the larger organization and production goals
• Analyze reports, measurements, and external benchmarks to identify opportunities for continuous improvement in manufacturing areas
• Work to understand root cause and corrective actions for process failures relating to scheduling, planning and execution
• Adhere to company policies, procedures, and ethics codes

Traits we believe make a strong candidate:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, but candidates with relevant experience alongside a High School Diploma or Associate’s Degree will also be considered
• Strong analytical capabilities and ability to organize large data sets, analyze trends and make recommendations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to stay organized in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful, environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• SAP PP module and work center experience and route planning knowledge is strongly preferred
• Experience in working in an ISO 9001/14001/45001 environment a plus;
• Candidate must have the capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.