Production Planner/Master Scheduler

Production Planner/Master Scheduler:

Job Summary: The Production Planning Supervisor/Master Planner is responsible for the plant’s material planning processes, assists in coordinating activities, and provides work direction to employees in the production planning department. Creates the Master Plan for production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop master production schedule to meet on-time shipments.

• Responsible for setup and management of outsource vendors, including prioritization and expediting of work with outsource vendors. Works with the Quality and Engineering departments to qualify new outsource vendors.

• Detects, leads and executes jointly defined and agreed planning process improvement initiatives.

• Coaches, trains, and manages the production planning team.

• Implement, review, and drive improvements to key metrics.

• Participates with manufacturing in daily meetings to ensure scheduling and manufacturing activities are being met as planned.

• Regularly reviews key MRP parameters and master data settings, inventory planning parameters are optimized, correct and updated regularly.

• Works with production to identify potential capacity shortages and creates action plans to close the gap between demand and capacity shortages.

• Gather and review data from manufacturing and support organizations, coordinates with capacity and material analysis to resolve material and capacity discrepancies that affect the schedule.

• Participates in the site's Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.

• As required, assist team in production planning activities to support the team workload.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Understanding of best practices in production planning.

• Proficiency in an ERP systems

• Knowledge of MRP processes, and competency in the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process.

• Ability to demonstrate proficiency using Microsoft office software

• APICS certification a plus.

• Good oral and written communication skills.

• Knowledge of manufacturing software; spreadsheet software and word processing software.

• Able to work with mathematical concepts.

• Good teamwork and team building skills.

• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and continuous improvement orientation.

• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.

Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s Degree, preferred in Business Administration, Logistics, Supply Chain, or other technical discipline Experience and 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment; Preferred 3 years of which are at a supervisory or managerial level, leading or supervising and managing planning functions.