The Senior Planner is responsible for overseeing daily production planning, ensuring the highest possible productivity while meeting customer delivery deadlines. The role involves managing machine and worker operations, providing lead times for new orders, and forecasting material requirements. The Senior Planner reports directly to the Group Planning Coordinator.
Job Description
- Using the Company’s MRP/ERP system, execute complex work plans and schedules with new or variable material and capacity requirements.
- Support customer requirements within the current build plan.
- Monitor the movement of assemblies through the production cycle.
- Coordinate the efficient movement of material with purchasing, production and engineering.
- Responsible for performing a variety of routing, dispatching and expediting duties necessary to meet production schedules
- Interact effectively with production, sales and engineering through status and/or exception reporting.
- Develop written production schedules for Manufacturing.
- Strong understanding of Lean Manufacturing Techniques
- Participate on cross-functional improvement teams.
- Strong analytical skills
Education / Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
- Experience with NPI
- 5 years planning experience in related industry
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- APICS certification preferred
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