Job Title: Production Planner-Scheduler
Reports to: Supply Chain Manager
Job Summary: Responsible for forecasting, analyzing and converting customer demand into production schedules. Align cross-functionally to create an efficient schedule that ensures performance meets customer requirements. Production scheduling supports all machine work centers across the Gaishin network (3 sites).
Job Duties:
- Analyze customer demand requirements and schedule production jobs accordingly
- Forecast future demand, capacity and throughput requirements
- Produce and analyze data to solve future capacity and throughput bottlenecks (long-term enterprise planning)
- Balance workflow to honor lead times, hit commitments and ensure efficiency
- Engage with operations, quality and engineering to understand and remove bottlenecks
- Ensure capacity aligns with throughput needs and material availability
- Produce on-time delivery metrics
- Identify contributing factors that limit performance via data analysis
- Engage cross-functionally to align key data inputs and close gaps
- Align with customer service to proactively identify at-risk orders
Functional Skills:
- Computer and technical aptitude – thorough knowledge of office products and ERP
- Data driven with ability to analyze and report on data
- Process & accountability driven
- Clear communicator & excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to understand technical specifications / bill of materials
- Ability to identify improvement opportunities
Qualifications/Desired Experience:
- Production planning experience
- Associates or Bachelors degree preferred
- Detail oriented and extremely organized
- Root cause analysis & problem solving (continuous improvement)