Production Planner

Production Scheduler

The scheduling position is responsible for initiating, developing and working with the plant manager and scheduling leader to schedule daily production to satisfy customer demand for components and finished products necessary to establish sequence and lead time of each production operation while meeting inventory and service objectives consistent with plant capacity and sales forecasts in our IFS ERP / MRP system. This role will establish the daily, weekly, monthly, and Early Buy schedule and be the linkage between the Plant Production Team, customer service team, account managers and the AC operations team to communicate lead times and timing for customer shipments.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Own the Production scheduling process and optimize daily / weekly / monthly production to meet customer commitments based on order queue and communicated lead times. Adjusts schedule as needed because of delays in raw materials, machine downtime, staffing, etc.
• Interact and establish rhythm with Plant Production Team, account managers / customer service, and Shipping and Receiving Team to provide accurate delivery date management within expected service levels and lead times.
• Communicate with account managers, supply chain and operations on production and order delays. Manage back orders, dates, and completion.
• Understand capacity and throughput capability in alignment with order intake. Actively work to manage production capabilities in alignment with product forecasting.
• Works closely with Logistics on coordination of delivery to the customer. Manages shipping capability as a capacity limitation when planning lead times and throughput of order queue to customers.
• Works closely with buyer planner and inventory coordination on purchased materials and in-house produced parts. Establishes daily communication to understand inventory levels, stock outs and impacts to scheduling.
• Optimizes department and machine capacity during scheduling process.
• Primary interface working with engineering, supply chain, production, sales, finance for product priority.
• Supports plant Inventory management process and cycle counting logic and execution.
• Schedules Outsourcing if required to assist Buyers to meet customer demand and internal requirements to meet outsourcing production plan.
• Perform buyer / planner activities as required to ensure efficient stocking levels of raw material inventory when buyer / planner absent.
• Coordinate stocking target levels (SS) with Inventory Management Coordinator based on usage and forward-looking master schedule.
• Works closely with SIOP planners / Scheduling Leader to have alignment on the schedule with the overall master schedule.