Production Planner

Summary: This position works closely with the thermoforming, extrusion, warehouse, purchasing and customer service departments. This position is responsible for the overall output of all production lines. The successful candidate will consistently perform duties in the most efficient and professional manner, meet production goals and standards, foresee production delays that impact customer orders, and act to avoid late or incomplete order fulfillment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: 

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the followings essential functions. These examples do not include all the duties which the employee may be expected to perform. To perform this job successfully, an individual is expected to perform each essential function satisfactorily.

▪   Coordinate production workflow for all products. 

▪   Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay. 

▪   Determine equipment and raw/packaging materials needed to cover production demand.

▪   Communicate needs of materials such as boxes or bags to buyer to ensure they are ordered and delivered when needed. 

▪   Assign priority to different work centers within thermoforming and extrusion. 

▪   Schedule the different jobs for thermoforming and extrusion, based on customer orders and forecasts. 

▪   Communicate production schedule with production team and ensure it is being followed. 

▪   Maintain customer forecasts to help determine quantities for production runs. 

▪   Maintain and update “shortage report” to communicate expected completion times of customer orders to customer service and sales representatives. 

▪   Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget.

▪   Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption. 

▪   Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.)

▪   Prepare and submit status and performance reports. 

▪   Keep paperwork organized.

▪   Perform physical inventories of necessary items (boxes, rolls, bags, etc.) needed to complete scheduled production runs, as necessary. 

▪   Create, maintain and or update Bills of Materials (BOMS) to ensure all material usages are correctly deducted in the system, as necessary. 

Work Relationship: 

Reports to: Supply Chain Director.

Leads or supervises: None. 

Cooperates with teams: All employees in or related to the production areas.         

Qualifications:

▪   Proven experience as production planner. 

      ▪    Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles. 

      ▪   Experience in MRP II (Manufacturing resource planning).

      ▪   Working knowledge of MS Office and ERP systems.

      ▪   Good at math and statistics.