Production Planning Manager

2 weeks ago


Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Ducommun Full time
Job Summary

As a Production Planning Manager at Ducommun, you will be responsible for overseeing the production planning and scheduling functions. This includes managing the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these units, as well as carrying out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.

Key Responsibilities
  • Interviewing, hiring, and training employees
  • Planning, assigning, and directing work
  • Appraising performance
  • Rewarding and disciplining employees
  • Addressing complaints and resolving problems
  • Managing Training Program to enable employees to perform tasks to the best of their ability
  • Providing data analysis to manage business performance effectively
  • Monitoring manufacturing schedule performance against plan and initiating revisions as necessary
  • Participating in and contributing to the Site Management Team to develop strategies, resource requirements, and continuous improvement plans
  • Managing, developing, and maintaining continuous improvement projects
  • Providing planning support, including production scheduling support on all material flow issues, budgeting, performance monitoring, analysis, reporting, expediting, personnel planning, purchasing, and other administrative duties as needed
  • Interfaces with Program Management on the planning and forecasting of customer orders to meet shipments
  • Manages, establishes, and coordinates the production schedules in a factory environment and ensures the flow of materials, parts, and assemblies between or within departments
  • Collaborates with Supply Chain to ensure adequate inventory of materials and products in accord with inventory cycles and organizational philosophy
  • Conducts inventory analysis to solve inventory problems and develops and implements inventory control procedures
  • Integrates with multiple functions to drive and develop monthly forecast
  • Uses Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process fundamentals
  • Collaborates with Program Management to synchronize Customer demand with Shop capacity
  • Uses metrics, analytical tools, and methods to identify actions and deploy processes and systems to effectively and efficiently schedule and utilize shop capacity
  • Leads and supports Continuous Improvement methods to analyze trends and improve responsible processes that impact Customer On-Time Delivery performance
  • Develops standard work and operating procedures for the Planner Schedulers and Production Control Coordinators to deploy systems and processes to plan and schedule shop and balance demand with capacity
  • Advises management of the status of work in progress, potential project problems, and recommended solutions
  • Coordinates with production and schedulers to ensure product throughput to support customer delivery requirements
  • Interfaces with all functional area managers to understand unusual or anomalous factors that may affect manufacturing schedules or impact planned capacity
  • Helps develop work-around plans and build-ahead or recovery plans
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university
  • Minimum of 5 years of electronics manufacturing experience preferred
  • Management experience in production scheduling, capacity planning, and inventory control functions is required
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills to deal with people on a continuous basis under production schedule pressures
About Ducommun

Ducommun is a global provider of innovative manufacturing solutions for customers in the aerospace, defense, and industrial markets. We specialize in electronic and structural systems, producing complex products and components for commercial aircraft platforms, mission-critical military and space programs, and sophisticated industrial applications.



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