Title: Production Planner

Location: Hickory, NC

Pay: 22 USD/HR

Duration: 6+ Months

Job Description:

Description:

Involves the overall planning, implementation, and optimization of activities and support required for the delivery of products and services to our business partners, from materials/service acquisition through shipment. Primary areas of responsibility include driving production order dating, scheduling, releasing to operations and pegging to shipments, supply chain-related project work, and data analysis. A series of operations performed in planning, making, and controlling the execution of customer requirements for assigned products. Maintains and controls the business strategies and system architectures to drive enterprise-wide solutions and create production plans (MPS) that are executable and driven to the plant with the highest accuracy via SAP.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Routinely report to management on status and performance for assigned products.

• Manage the master production schedule to drive materials for customer requirements and optimize required production fluctuation and inventory levels.

• Coordinate demand recognition for new products in MRP for both new product introduction and product transfers between plants.

• Review, analyze, and be accountable for compliance of delivery performance to the most critical and strategic customer contract requirements by customer set.

• Coordinate plans and execution with Product Line Management (PLM), Plant Planners, Engineering, and Plant Management.

• Support ongoing business team activities for assigned product line(s).

• Engage in materials coordination and capacity facilitation with divisional and plant procurement.

• Measure and compare actual production results against the production plan and forecast.

• Facilitate adjustments to ATP as required to reflect actual plant performance and realized production rates. Identify adjustments needed in resource allocations based on such changes.

• Support production planning/master scheduling activities, including order management, resource planning, delivery promising (ATP management), and production forecasting and reporting of actual manufacturing results vs. plan. Provide backup to certain planning functions.

• Serve as department liaison with the Production, Engineering, and Kaizen Departments.

• Work closely with production coordinators and team leaders to establish short-term and long-term expectations and execution of the production plan.

Required Education:

• BS in Supply Chain, Business, or technical field

Required Years and Area of Experience:

• 0 – 3 years of relevant experience

Required Skills:

• Ability to comprehend, analyze, and solve complex problems

• Demonstrates drive and commitment

• Ability to change priorities and tasks as necessary

• Ability to work independently in a dynamic, business/manufacturing environment

• Computer literate in MS Office

Desired Skills:

• Project Management

• Understanding aspects of inventory management

• SAP knowledge and experience

• Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks