About this role
<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0in 1.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#262626;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Summary:</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Production Planner establishes and maintains the Manufacturing Production Schedule and inventory levels of finished goods. The Production Schedule must be feasible and ensure that adequate capacity and material supply exists to meet requirements for specific products and options in time periods required by the customer. Ongoing communication with materials, procurement, engineering, manufacturing leadership, sales and marketing organization, and senior leadership is expected to facilitate balancing supply with demand, meeting customer service requirements and fully utilizing manufacturing resources</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Essential Duties and Responsibilities:</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Create and maintain the manufacturing production plan and create manufacturing orders per plan</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Optimize production schedules in accordance to customer demand and available capacity </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Accountable for downstream replenishment and timely release of manufacturing orders</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Identify and address short-term supply constraints within the weekly process (long-term constraints within monthly process); analyze daily supply/demand alerts and address or escalate accordingly</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Interface with QA and warehouse staff regarding rejected/defective materials, making the necessary arrangements with operations or procurement to ensure prompt replacement</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Participate in Supply Plan development and in establishing planning time fences for aggregate Supply Plans and for detail Master Plans</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Translate the Production Plan into a schedule for producing or acquiring components, materials and services. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Maintain and provide valid lead time data to sales and marketing organization to guard against over-committing company resources and/or parts and materials</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Identify and resolve conflicts with supply and demand, and availability of capacity in conjunction with Operations Leadership</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 3.3pt;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0in 1.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#262626;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Qualifications:</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Demonstrated experience creating and managing feasible and balanced supply plans, in accordance with demand, to support targets consistent with customer requirements for short, medium and long-term capacity planning</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships and collaboration key stakeholders</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ability to proactively diagnose and address potential issues in supply shortage or customer service interruption (e.g. resource requirements planning constraints)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Possess a 'customer - first' mindset to understand customer needs and exceed customer expectations</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Possess a strong understanding and awareness of the principles of extended Supply Chain management and fundamentals of Supply Chain design and strategy</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Data mining reporting skills through MS-Excel; specifically V-lookup and Pivot tables </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ability to drive continuous process improvements and lead small scale projects</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience proactively seeking to leverage existing IS capabilities to improve current and future Supply Chain performance (e.g., systems, reports or metrics)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ability to apply appropriate process improvement tools, techniques and Supply Chain metrics to measure, analyze, diagnose and improve future performance</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Must have a strong attention to detail efficient, accurate, timely and thorough, with focus and attention to detail.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">A strong understanding of a range of production planning and execution systems</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 3.3pt;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Education/Experience:</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background-color:white">Industrial distribution, or similar field. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">3-5+ years production/planning/scheduling work experience in a manufacturing supply chain</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Strong ERP systems and computer software experience (e.g. SAP, S4/HANA, JDE, Excel, etc.)</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Manufacturing Planning experience with high-customization, high-mix, low-volume manufacturing</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Proficiency in MS Office, Word</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 3.3pt;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">APICS CPIM certification</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Lean Sigma certification </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Language Skills: </span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ability to read and understand English instructions</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 3.3pt;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Mathematical Skills:</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 3.3pt;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:3.5pt"> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Work Environment:</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:6.65in;border:solid black 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:white;padding:0.0in 5.4pt 0.0in 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Office and Manufacturing </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0in;font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p>