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Tecomet, Inc · 3 months ago

Production Planner II

MAN, Manchester, NH, US

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

5+ years exp

Tecomet, Inc is a company focused on continuous improvement and customer-driven innovation. The Production Planner II will create production schedules to meet demand while ensuring safety, quality, and profitability, and will support daily management activities to achieve commitments and communicate order status.

ManufacturingPrecious Metals

Responsibilities

Ability to understand and utilize MRP and how master data drives material requirement planning

The candidate must be able to plan all operations starting with the receipt of purchase orders through shipping of product

Assist the purchasing department with outsourcing processes

Maintain appropriate inventory levels to meet and exceed inventory targets and turns; as well as seek opportunities to reduce inventory through various techniques such as lot size optimization, off-the-shelf vs. MTO analysis, Kanban, etc

Full understanding of re-order points and safety stock formulas; as well as the impact on different ways of calculating

Ability to create a production plan, understand level loading, capacity planning, sequential and concurrent scheduling to maximize production efficiency by minimizing change overs, down time, and over time

Lead production planning meetings and communicate when a gap exists between demand vs. capacity

Work with manufacturing to come up with creative scheduling techniques and adjusting of resources to improve overall efficiency

Understand Production Attainment and working with manufacturing to fully optimize scheduling to ensure capacity is maximized and production orders are closed out on-time

Ability to drive root cause for missed shipments and help to implement corrective actions to ensure Customer fill rate targets are achieved and sustained

Proactively identify potential shortages against scheduled production orders and work with appropriate team to resolve these shortages to ensure on-time completion

Evaluate slow moving items and work with appropriate groups to propose clean-up, re-work, obsolescence, changes to lot sizing, stock status etc

Move materials as necessary in performance of duties

Communicate effectively both internally and externally at all levels

Support various supply chain functions as demand requires (shipping, receiving, stockroom)

Monitor 1+5-day OTD, track current work status. Pick list for what needs to be pulled and ship from stock

Monitor aged operations, work and support operations to push work forward

Support customer demand, alert planning/customer service teams if an order will be missed, help supply new ship date based on current operations schedule and work with operations to get work moving

Support customer service / planning with completing customer open order reports on status for shipping

Work with operations and planning on determining priorities if another order is held up for an issue

Support MRB as needed based on volume of NCR’s and OTD impact

Work with supply chain and operations to drive the output of monthly revenue and end of month order priorities

Qualification

MRP/MPS systemsProduction schedulingAdvanced Microsoft ExcelERP SystemsAPICSCPM certificationLean conceptsFollow-up skillsCapacity PlanningCommunicationProblem-solving

Required

BS degree in Business Administration, Engineering or Supply Chain

5+ years of experience within Planning and Procurement

Must have experience with any modern ERP Systems

Production scheduling to manage open orders and driving the production planning process

Provides information to weekly SIOP meetings

Must be well versed in MRP/MPS systems

APICS or CPM certification a plus or equivalent

Advanced knowledge of Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

Advanced Microsoft skills, particularly MS Excel, Pivot tables and ability to download and manipulate data quickly and easily using advanced functions

Ability to apply LEAN concepts and good understanding of Pull systems

Excellent communication and follow-up skills

Advance Capacity Planning

Able to communicate at all levels of the organization

Preferred

Six sigma certifications preferred

Company

Tecomet, Inc

Tecomet develops proven, full-spectrum scalable manufacturing solutions for leading medical device technology, aerospace, and defense companies for whom exceptional quality is critical.

Founded in 1963

Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA

1001-5000 employees