Production Planner II

Role Purpose:

This position 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.

Day to Day Tasks:

• Scheduling, releasing to operations and pegging to shipments, supply chain related project work, and data analysis.
• Schedule production efficiently and cost-effective manner, based on equipment, labor and material availability to achieve operational objectives.
• Activities may include:
  • Dating sales orders and releasing production orders to operations.
  • Assigning fiber, managing fiber inventory, coloring plans, and finished goods to sales orders.
  • Review production processes and coordinate with other planners / schedulers.
  • Participate on teams focused on process improvements, including material flow, cycle times, improvements to MRP system, and data.
  • Provide inputs, maintains planning/scheduling metrics, and reports to management on status and performance for assigned products.
  • Manage the master production schedule to drive materials for customer requirements and optimizing required production fluctuation and inventory levels.
  • Establishes planning strategies to maximize the optimal MRP environment for assigned product sets.
  • Coordinates demand recognition for new products in MRP for new product introduction and product transfers between plants.
  • Continually improve plant capacity analysis model and tools that calculate and report capacity consumption for all product lines both in manufacturing units and hours.
  • Engages in materials coordination and capacity facilitation with plant procurement.
  • Analyze internal and external processes (benchmarking) to maximize efficiency of function and systems.
  • Lead new Planning & Procurement system implementation projects, with measuring and comparing actual production results against plans and forecasts.
  • Use strong system skills and business knowledge to examine the effectiveness of manufacturing and support activities and communicating results.
• Determine scope of improvement projects; initiate and lead improvement projects as necessary.
• Develop reports and analysis for continuous improvement.
• Support production planning/master scheduling activities, production forecasting and reporting, while providing backup to certain planning functions.
• Work closely with production coordinators and team leaders to establish short- term and long-term expectations and execution of the production plan.

Hours / work schedule:

• Normal business hours, M-F. 40+ hours / week.
• Weekend / off-hours coverage required to support a 24/7 operation.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering, Supply Chain or Business preferred).
• 2-5+ years of relevant experience.
• Self-motivated, positive attitude.
• Experience leading and participating in cross functional teams.
• Comprehensive computer and Microsoft Office knowledge and skills.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Knowledge of basic principles of supply chain – planning, forecasting, capacity, and purchasing.
• Able to problem solve.
• Communications (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks.
• Knowledge of SAP or other MRP system.

Desired Skills:

• Strong background of continuous improvement.
• Project Management.
• Cables Manufacturing knowledge.
• Understand principles of inventory management.
• Capacity analysis experience.