Production Scheduler / Planner

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Job Title : Production Planner

Reports to : Planning Manager

FLSA Status : Non-Exempt

Travel : Travel required at times (0% - 10%)

Position Summary : The Production Planner is responsible for creating plans for managing inventory programs and maintaining plant finite schedules. Planner liaises with their counter parts in Production, Quality, Warehouse and Customer Service to address normal business processes of manufacturing. Job impacts between $30-50 million in product sales, between $20-40 million in production cost and $3-5 million in inventory value.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Regularly meets with assigned plants to arrange orders into the optimal sequential work schedule and provides appropriate lead times to customer service for customer orders.
• Examines production specifications and capacity data, and performs mathematical calculations to determine production processes, tools, and human resource requirements for NPD.
• Meets weekly with assigned plants to review prior week’s performance for schedule adherence and overproduction. Unacceptable performance is identified, and corrective actions taken. A frozen schedule is established.
• Manages stocking programs to assure demand to forecast performance and supply execution are graded. Action is taken to identify out of bounds results to bring the program back within plan.
• Reviews FG inventory within warehouses to identify orphan or SLOB and initiates action to address.
• Reviews assigned plant lead times weekly, identifies areas needing supply support to reduce to targeted lead time levels and takes appropriate actions to ensure success.
• Other duties as assigned by their manager

Competency :

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies :

Requirements : Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education Requirements / Work Experience :

Reasoning Ability :

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills :

Work Environment :

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.

This document in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities of, and the duties to be performed by, the employee occupying this position. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from, any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper.