Production Planning Manager

2 months ago

Huntsville, United States TriMas Corporation Full time
Production Planning Manager

Company:Norris Cylinder Company

Primary Location:521 Green Cove Road SE, Huntsville, AL 35803 USA

Employment Type: Salaried | Full-Time

Function:Administrative

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Main Duties & Responsibilities
Job Summary:
Serve as a leader to promote and uphold a quality mindset across sitelocation of Norris. The Production Planning Manager will be anintegral part in aligning the production and material supply chain with themanufacturing and customer fulfillment requirements.Under management direction,including input and guidance - analyze current sales, usage history, and markettrends to create material forecasts and production build plans.Organize, adjust, and control our ERP/MRPconfiguration to create monthly manufacturing plans and procurementdemand.Maintain the balance ofinventory levels to meet the demands of our market channels while minimizingour inventory investment.Maintain communicationand collaboration between our sales department, procurement, and our productionoperations. The goal is to improve processes,practices, and products to provide customers with the best value possible.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
Engages the leadership team inachieving financial and operational goals utilizing lean initiatives. Thisincludes working with key leadership both functionally and strategically todrive overall improvements for the following goals:

1. Contribution to safety committee andnecessary steps to ensure ZERO lost time accidents in 2023
2. Achieve Financial Targets Operating Profit and gross sales
3. Develop and implement action plans to align the properinventory WIP levels and reduce the overall inventory to achieve NWC targets
4. Develop FAB build plan that pulls our steel supply
5. Create approach to level shipment throughout the month andachieve 95% OTD

Responsible for the management of the following:
ProductionPlanning - Work closely with operations to develop manufacturing plansbased on our published build plans and sales forecasting data. Ensureplanning and scheduling activities to convert raw materials to finishedproducts to enable on time delivery to customers.Working with manufacturing management,maintain accurate product routings.Create and review level loading indicators.
ProductionControl - Ensure that the production team can achieve the production planby regulating inventory management, organizing production schedules, andoptimizing utilization of production processes.Create and apply supporting standardwork.
MasterScheduling - Establish the master schedule over a determined horizon foreach product family to enable manufacturing actions in readiness toachieve the schedule as promised.
Sales,Inventory and Operations Planning - Assist with a structured approach toshort-term and long-term forecasting and related inventory and capacityeffectiveness.Work withmanufacturing leadership in capacity planning.
Facilitatethe weekly SNOP meetings to develop, measure, and maintain sales forecastdata, evaluating deviation of actual versus plan, and then suggestingcorrective actions and process variations. Continually update lead timesby product family.Provide promisedates to sales team.
Responsiblefor driving acceptable and accurate inventory levels, limiting operationdisruptions, and minimizing inventory shortages and overages.Oversight and reporting controls of aformal Cycle-Count system, meeting the requirements of our TriMasdirectives.
Workdirectly with Procurement to establish a plan and controls to attain thetarget inventory turns per year, and gross margin return on investment.
Facilitationand governance of steel and cylinder component transactions andprocurement guideline audits.
Utilizingthe production job variance reporting, investigate and identify the rootcause of material cost variances, suggest remedies, and recommend theappropriate timing on the updating the standard material costs.
Responsiblefor the accuracy and efficiency of steel receipts, and componentreplenishment.Including theestablishment and maintenance of proper Min/Max levels for stockinglocations.
Monitoring,and improving the volume of intra-company material transfers.
Work withOperations and Procurement to evaluate and identify constraints,measuring, communicating, and strategizing on ways to improve.
Executeduties and improvements utilizing a cooperative team approach with allCompany personnel.

Qualifications

Qualifications
10+ yearsheavy manufacturing experience preferably in steel processing or largesteel distributor.
A proventrack record of controlling and reducing inventory levels over time whilemaintaining good part service levels
Itemforecasting and production planning
Drivingproper inventory levels, maintaining accuracy, and attaining targetedturns
Accuratecollection and controls of production item material costs
Materialaudits - including cycle-count, material transactions, and procurementguidelines
StrongERP systems expertise relative to utilization for effective planning andtracking, ability to develop the appropriate suite of reports necessary
Sytelineknowledge and experience strongly preferred
Bachelor's degreein appropriate discipline
Effectivecommunicator who can work through others to get the job done
Minimum 5 years team management experience
Creativeness anddesire to not to be bound by past solutions and to think outside the boxin order to drive quality throughout the organization
Ability to lead and collaborate with a cross-functional team
Ability to managea range of responsibilities is critical
Mentoring &coaching skills

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