WB Manufacturing Hiring for Production Planner at Suring, WI Full Time

Production Planner

We are looking for a talented Production Planner to join our team specializing in Supply Chain Planning for our Suring, WI Facility. This is an on-site role.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Establish, manage, and maintain a valid Production Plan for selected items or family of products. Collaborate with other functional teams to ensure customer’s expectations and requirements are met.
• Analyze the demand and supply balance at product family, part number, and sub-assembly levels as appropriate.
• Create the Master Production Schedule that satisfies customer demand while optimizing inventory levels and plant capacity utilization.
• Review and manage change requests from customers, plants, or suppliers, making appropriate reschedules in line with the policy and
• Determine the impact of daily customer orders and adjusts the daily production schedule to ensure maximum order fulfillment.
• Work with external and internal cross functional stakeholders to develop and implement short and mid-term tactical improvements.
• Comply with communication plans and processes to ensure stakeholders’ needs are met.
• Leverage common processes tools, and information systems.
• Maintain and advise on changes to planning systems parameters as required. Ensures accuracy of the parameters.
• Analyze and interpret KPIs to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
• Lead Six Sigma and functional process improvement teams.
• Mentor and coach Production Schedulers and/or Production Coordinators.
• Ensure common processes are being utilized and internal controls are in place.

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Detailed Capacity Planning – Converts and translates the Production Plan into detailed resource requirements resulting in optimized internal capacity utilization and identified constraints; negotiates changes to the schedule or available resources when demand exceeds demonstrated or installed capacity with a focus on meeting Available-to-Promise (ATP) dates; considers different options such as overtime, adding a shift or headcount, etc. to increase capacity during periods of constraint.
• Supply Scheduling – Establishes and maintains a valid Production Schedule for a family of products, which meets customer’s expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency; validates procurement scheduling, production scheduling, and replenishment planning are aligned to manufacturing and assembly assets for conversion.
• Materials KPI Management – Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs as compared to expectations of the organization to determine next steps to drive improvement; assesses gaps to the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interprets KPIs to understand end-customer impact; strategically balances trade-offs to influence one KPI while minimizing the impact to others.
• Materials Planning System Utilization – Uses the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans taking long-term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis; occasionally refers to adhoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. in performing problem solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day-to-day operations.
• Part Change Control Management – Evaluates and implements engineering change request (obsolescence, supersessions, new part release, etc.) to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) – Converts the Demand Plan and Master Supply Plan into critical resource (labor, machine, and materials) requirements resulting in negotiations and/or changes to the plan or available resources to balance supply and demand; focuses on longer term resource planning, not detailed

Education/Experience

• B.S or BA in applicable field
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
• Intermediate level of relevant work experience required

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 – $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Suring, WI 54174: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Manufacturing: 1 year (Preferred)
• Management: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location