Production Planner
About this position
Responsibilities
• Evaluate customer demand and forecast to properly develop plant scheduling and ensure 100% ship window compliance.
• Populate and maintain Master scheduler.
• Review inventory with material planner to ensure material availability for production run scheduled.
• Daily Schedule manufacturing for production of slurries, coating, and other activities such as containment efforts, outside cutting process and calcine.
• Monitor interrupted lots assuring that lot data is transferred to new work order and Laboratory communicated in order to avoid losing data and parts needing to be scrapped and also that interrupted lots will be run with next production lot for that specific part number.
• Monitor quality results to ensure timing on material availability for the coating process.
• Monitor daily manufacturing processes for all areas to ensure schedule is on track and make adjustments based on progress and customer need.
• Determine priority for operations based on customer needs, raw material availability, and manufacturing capabilities.
• Coordinate with manufacturing supervisors and various other team leaders to ensure production schedule is on track.
• Coordinate line availability time for process techs for production trial runs, and PPAP while meeting customer’s requirements.
• Provide assistance on lot closures that may have discrepancies.
• Maintain appropriate finished goods inventory levels to ensure customer’s requirements are met.
• Conduct finish good inventory cycle counts.
• Assure manufacturing produces quantity required, monitoring phase out products and small lot run to avoid obsolescence or slow moving material in inventory.
• Prepare and present material for operations meeting.
• Supportive role in Lean manufacturing concepts, 5S, Waste Reduction, TS16949 and ISO 14001 quality systems.
• Develop and maintain SAP system to aid on the production schedule.
• In all areas of responsibilities, the incumbent is responsible in assuring that appropriate PPE is in place that have direct impact on the Health and Safety of associates and the Environment.
• In all areas of responsibilities, the incumbent is responsible in maintaining the highest level of integrity in its business dealings with associates, people and organizations wherever we operate to its highest ethical standards.
• Performs other duties as may be assigned by the MP&L Manager from time to time.
• To perform as the system requirement or the assignment of line manager in order to fulfill the requirement of the Integrated Management System.
• Procurement of raw materials and services by optimizing cost, quality and service with a focus on production scheduling and minimizing inventory by establishing stock level targets for each item. Double check and confirm all incoming material orders timings and quantity.
Requirements
• Bachelor or Master in Logistic Management, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or related field.
• Above 5 years experienced in production planning and material planning in manufacturing circumstance.
• Manufacturing environment experience is required.
• Experience in logistics tasks is pre.