Supervisory Production Planner

Daily Operations:

• Work highly independently - not only mentoring production planners but also effectively leading a team of production planners in the execution of complex tasks supporting production planning and production activities.
  • Provide oversight while delegating work and mentoring team members.
  • Set day-to-day operational objectives for individuals or teams
  • Develop and lead production planning trainings
  • Provide support / manager input to PFP reviews
• Support manager in development of resources, including regular check-ins, review of progression, assignments for development, onboarding of new hires, etc.
• Identify and define production planning issues, risks and challenges, direct efforts to successful resolution.
• Encourage technical excellence and rigor in the group’s work, including offering peer check opportunities.
• Oversee weekly Purchasing meeting to ensure procurements are on schedule
• Oversee tracking of open demand activities (purchase requisitions, purchase orders, inspection lots and production orders) to ensure projects stay on schedule
• Participate and provide guidance on issue resolution in weekly production meetings with planning, manufacturing engineering, project engineering and project management
• Work with the planning team and scheduler to status progress in project schedules
• Collaborate with project team, shop technicians, QC, QA, supply chain, planning and manufacturing engineering when issues arise
• Provide guidance to Production Planning team in development of production order operations and Manufacturing Engineering and shop personnel.

• Manufacturing Transformation Initiative support
• Provide labor estimates for representative product drawings
• Collect and share relevant operating experiences with Production Planning team

Required Skills

• Advanced Production Planning skills
• Proficient in SAP particularly PP and QM modules
• Strong background in Excel preferred
• Familiar with P-6, Enovia and Sharepoint

EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

• Bachelor’s degree, (project, operations or business management preferred)
• Minimum of 8-10 years previous experience in a similar role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Superb organizational skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills.
• A willingness to learn.
• Must demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Office products.