Production Planning and Scheduling Expert

7 days ago

East Hartford, Connecticut, United States HORST ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING CO Full time
Job Summary:

The Production Planner is a critical role responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and improving production flow. This position oversees all production activities related to manufacturing production and planning, including customer demand management, job routing, production reporting, and scheduling.

This role utilizes lean enterprise skills to continuously improve products and processes, ensuring efficient use of resources and minimizing waste.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Create and establish production planning processes through cross-functional collaboration with sales, engineering, purchasing, quality, and manufacturing teams.
  • Drive on-time shipments by creating daily production schedules that optimize capacity utilization, raw material allocation, work-in-progress inventory, and finished goods 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, and overdue releases.
  • Manage material requirement planning data and issue job travelers (routers) to the production floor to optimize manpower, machinery utilization, and inventory levels.
  • Plan work orders for manufacturing based on customer demand and subcontract costs, monitoring over/under production.
  • Create expedite job completion timelines for external customers and communicate any changes in schedule or delivery dates to affected parties.
  • Ensure sufficient supplies of parts and materials are available.
  • Loading 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, informing management, purchasing, manufacturing, and customer service of schedule slippages, bottlenecks, or other problem areas in a timely manner.
Additional 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.
  • Apply Lean practices to continuously improve manufacturing processes and maintain 5S levels.
  • Assist other areas as necessary.
Requirements:
  • Associate's 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. Epicor ERP proficiency is a plus.
  • Strong MS Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.).
  • Excellent organizational, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
  • Able to apply Lean enterprise principles to eliminate waste.
  • Must be able to work under stringent deadlines and possess a sense of urgency.
  • Must be able to work in a team environment.
  • Prior knowledge of SIOP (Sales-Inventory-Operation-Planning) methodology is a plus.
Estimated Salary Range:

$65,000 - $90,000 per year, depending on location and experience.

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