Job Title:  Planner

As the Planner, you will be responsible for controling the manufacturing schedule for operations scheduling machines, materials, and staffing to meet customer requirements. You will prepare daily and weekly schedules and will communicate regularly with Sales, Material Control, and Production staff to adjust schedules to accommodate changes in customer priority, machine availability, material availability, or staffing.  

What you will do:

• Provide communication link between sales demand and production.
• Participate in a daily meeting with operations group outlining the schedule and special activities that are expected in that day.
• Prioritize activities for operations group when schedule conflicts arise and notify sales of impact to customer expectations.
• Ensure upcoming needs are visible and reviewable by the rest of the organization.
• Establish production rates based on forecast/customer sales orders.
• Maintain optimal inventory levesl on Finish goods.
• Prevent Obsolescence by scheduling based on forecast/sales orders.
• Provide lead-times back to Sales on models when required.
• Generate proposed solutions to expedite requests, computing the impact of each solution proposal offered.  Reports requests and proposals to supervisor.
• Ensure that all documents needed for production build, and/or shipment are available and easily accessible

 
What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Advanced English
• MS-Office & Excel XP or later experience
• APICS training (plus)
• Strong familiarized with production processes knowledge
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma
• Proven planning experience: MPS generation, Production Line Schedule, Forecasting, Demand tracking and Inventory control for JIT & SS customers