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Job Description
- Manages all planning inputs: Sales orders, forecasts, custom / special orders, and strategic build plans.
- Maintains consolidated sales forecasts in the MRP system.
- Using the MRP system, translates the consolidated sales forecasts into a master production schedule / build schedule.
- Performs load leveling on the build plan to allow for resource restrictions.
- Prepares and distributes weekly production schedules / work order dispatch lists.
- Monitors daily schedule status and communicates scheduling problems or concerns to Management.
- Confers with the Production Manager to determine the status of schedules and materials to revise schedules, as necessary, to meet customer demands.
- Assist management to resolve problems with late shipments, material shortages, customer schedule changes, and cancellations of customer orders.
- Proposes, gains approval for, and leads implementation of improved planning methods, tools, and reports.
- Prepares production reports.
- Special projects as assigned.
Job Requirements
- 3-7 years experience planning and scheduling a manufacturing facility.
- Fluency and proficiency in the practical application of MRP logic, scheduling logic, order policies, capacity planning, input/output control, product structures, routings, and standards maintenance.
- Knowledgeable in master scheduling, production planning and detailed scheduling, demand management, purchasing, and cost accounting techniques.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Extremely organized.
- Superior analytical and problem solving skills.