Production Planner

Job Description

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE : Production Planner

Reports To :

Director of Supply Chain

Supervises

: N / A

• Job Summary

The Production Planner is responsible for establishing and maintaining the Master Delivery Schedule and coordinating with departments to ensure resources required to meet the schedule are adequate and assigned. The Planner will ensure any material issues that affect the plan are communicated to the appropriate organization and will release work orders to ensure customer delivery dates are achieved.

The

Planner will ensure kitting / production schedules and resources are established and assigned to meet the master delivery schedule.

This role will coordinate with Program Management, Procurement, Production, and Stockroom teams to ensure execution of the schedules developed.

Track materials required for production.

Coordinate with purchasing to resolve material delivery or quality issues.

Collaborate with purchasing to align material needs with schedules.

Plan, prepare, issue, maintain and control production schedule to ensure the optimal flow of materials, documentation and information to meet production requirements

and customer expectations.

Review MRP exception messages to determine impact on production schedule. Brief Operations and Program Managers on potential impacts.

Follow up with all teams to expedite flow of material, BOMs, production documents and routers to meet production schedule.

Coordinate priority requests from Program Managers.

Create capacity reports and interface with departments to plan for and resolve capacity issues.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

You should be proficient in :

Machines & technologies you'll use :