Production Planner

Production Planner

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree; if no degree, 3 – 5 years of relevant work experience
• Knowledge of manufacturing planning, demand, and replenishment processes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Manage work order creation, size, due dates and completion, develop and manage an open work order review system.
• Establish daily and weekly protocol for monitoring sales backlog and escalation as required.
• Make delivery commitments for all products, which involve checking uncommitted material and availability of capacity. Ensure production schedules and sales backlogs are monitored closely for on-time completion.
• Communicate with purchasing regarding any material shortages that will affect our ability to meet our required sales order ship dates.
• Assist in reviewing, creating, and adjusting sales order forecast as needed.
• Monitor actual output versus the Production Build Plan. Identify gaps and drive solutions, including metrics on production performance to the requested production schedule. Communicate with customer service if there is a delay in meeting their product orders.
• Create and support visual management system by setting up sub-assembly, final assembly, and finished goods inventory kanban.
• Create and update RMA log to track in process RMAs.
• Monitor product calibration dates and plan any necessary recalibrations.
• Support EOL product transition, monitoring the key EOL components, and the plan for final buy, last makes and long-term service support etc. Monitor current Bill of Materials and coordinate with Engineering management on a plan for End-of-Life transitions.
• Assist in NPD process and product transitions by reviewing forecast, material demand and releasing production orders at each stage of the development process.
• Assist in inventory analysis regarding excess and obsolete inventory and reducing DSI.
• Manage assigned ECOs and Assist in ECO driven product updates.
• Attend weekly Tier, SQDIP, and SIOP meetings to communicate changes, improvements, and or initiatives.
• Assist in other planning related issues that include but are not limited to BOMs, serial numbers, routings, cycle counting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using MRP / ERP systems, preferably SAP
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with attention to detail
• Excellent organizational, time management and data entry skills
• APICS certification (CPIM or CSCP)
• Familiarity with Lean manufacturing techniques a plus.
• Microsoft Office skills