E.S. Kluft & Company

The Standard of Luxury and Comfort

We’re seeking a highly qualified, collaborative, professional, knowledgeable, and results-driven Production Planner/Scheduler to support our growing mattress manufacturing company.

Future employees will have the opportunity to join Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance on the first of the month following the date of hire. We offer 10 holidays, vacation, sick pay, and 401k employer match .

E.S. Kluft & Company is known for a long story of building only the best mattress in the U.S.! We are the company of choice for luxurious high-quality mattresses and want to be the employer of choice for your next career employment opportunity.

The Production Planner is responsible for all strategic and tactical activities required to ensure on time delivery to customer commitments, operations & inventory optimization. Will monitor and maintain flow, schedule, and control of materials for all production programs in their area(s).

Production Control Planner collaborates with Production, Purchasing, Marketing, Customer Service, and other department as required to identify and resolve constraints impacting customer delivery commitments.

Responsibilities:

• Develop daily and weekly Master-Planned Production schedules based on customer commitments.
• Work with shipping and production to ensure production schedule meet on-time delivery commitments.
• Promptly informing relevant departments of changes to published production scheduled.
• Work with the material procurement team to ensure all necessary raw materials are in-house to complete production schedules.
• Monitor finished good stock levels to ensure commitments are met.
• Generate SAP work orders in timely manner and distribute to the production floor.
• Communicate with departmental leaders about daily activities to help others within the organization remain in the loop and make educated decisions.
• Maintains backlog of unit production, posts to Management Report.
• Works with the Plant Manager in the production and delivery of Floor Samples and Finished Stock program.
• Coordinates loads and routings with shipping supervisor.
• Run various SAP and Business Warehouse reports and any other required reports.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
• Analyze back orders, current orders, and upcoming orders to prioritize, plan, and schedule the production operations.
• Analyze delays and interruptions and accordingly adjust production schedule to meet deadlines

Qualifications:

• Associate Degree and/or relevant experience is desired, high school diploma required.
• At least 2 years previous experience in a production planning or materials control function.
• Basic knowledge and concepts of materials requirements planning (MRP) programs.
• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Acute attention to detail and accuracy.
• Must possess the ability to work well with little or no supervision and with a collaborative team.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Ability to understand and follow written and verbal instructions.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, knowledge of SAP a plus.