Production Planner

2 weeks ago

East Hartford, United States HORST ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING CO Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Job Summary:

The Production Planner is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and improving production flow. This position is responsible for all production activities related to manufacturing production and planning, including but not limited to customer demand (MRP), job routers, production reports and scheduling. This role utilizes lean enterprise skills to continuously improve products and processes.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

  • Create and establish production planning processes through cross-functional collaboration between sales, engineering, purchasing, quality, and manufacturing teams.
  • Drive on time shipments through creation of daily production schedules that optimize capacity utilization, raw material allocation, WIP, and finish good inventory levels.
  • Establish planning controls and inventory levels that can accommodate forecast fluctuations, with keen attention to production lot sizes.
  • Coordinate and monitor daily performance, production output, scheduling commitments, inventory cycle counts, on time releases, overdue releases, etc.
  • Manage material requirement planning data and issue job travelers (routers) to the production floor that optimize manpower, machinery utilization, and inventory levels.
  • Plan work orders for manufacturing with respect to customer demand and subcontract (OV) cost (lot charges vs piece prices), monitor over/under production.
  • Create expedite job completion timelines for external customers. Communicate any changes in schedule or delivery dates to all affected parties.
  • Ensure sufficient supplies of parts and materials are available.
  • Load shop floor planner in ERP when releasing job routers.
  • Interface effectively with internal and external customers and support teams.
  • Provide input during development of production schedules and associated costs.
  • Assess need for and implement corrective action on an ongoing basis. Inform management, purchasing, manufacturing and customer service of schedule slippages, bottlenecks, or other problem areas in a timely manner.

Other Responsibilities:

  • Run weekly master list, start list, date changes and other reports as necessary.
  • Compile weekly push-out/pull-in reports.
  • Notify appropriate parties of any changes to delivery dates
  • Responsible for cycle counts and inventory.
  • Use Lean practices to continuously improve manufacturing processes and maintain 5S levels.
  • Assist other areas as necessary.

Requirements:

  • Associates Degree in a manufacturing or engineering related field
  • Two years of scheduling, planning, and/or inventory control experience in a manufacturing environment involving machining or similar processes.
  • Prior ERP/MRP experience. Use of Epicor ERP is a plus.
  • Strong MS Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.)
  • Strong organizational, verbal and interpersonal skills.
  • Proven ability to apply lean enterprise principals to eliminate waste.
  • Must be able to work under stringent deadlines and have a sense of urgency.
  • Must be able to work in a team environment.
  • Previous Sales-Inventory-Operation-Planning SIOP (S&OP) methodology knowledge a plus.

Physical Requirements:

  • Ability to sit, stand and walk for long periods of time.
  • Ability to lift at least 50 lbs
  • Ability to push, pull

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