Planning Manager - Leeds, AL

Job Overview

The Sr. Production Scheduler located in our Leeds, AL plant will direct schedulers and buyers at off-site manufacturing facilities to ensure fast and on-time delivery of customer orders, while working to reduce inventory

A Day In The Life

• Review total requirements in system to generate forecast for S&OP
• Direct the planners/buyers in scheduling customer orders and purchasing of raw materials
• Manage logistics and purchasing activities department to ensure that sufficient parts are on hand to meet 
  short/long range schedules.
• Analyze and recommend changes, as necessary, production schedules that are affected by changes in raw 
  material and equipment as well as fluctuations in customer demand.
• Manage supplier activity to ensure the timely release of purchase orders and timely arrival of materials in the 
  plant.
• Work to make shared decisions and recommendations concerning MRP schedules, product substitution and 
  lead times.
• Review and ensure vendor forecasts are sent promptly to suppliers
• On time performance from suppliers and actions to improve
• Review of inventory dollars and actions to minimize inventory while ensuring no stock outs.
• Review of customer on time performance and actions to improve when necessary
• Communicating and directing others that are not in the same facility
• Manage engineering changes that require material master data updates and/or additions in ERP/SAP business 
  systems
• Ability to interpret bill of material, production routings, and part master data
• Knowledge of capacity planning and determining potential constraints in production  
• Daily Interface with customer service representatives to provide order status and completion dates

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and skills.
• Strong MRP understanding
• Minimum of five years of manufacturing scheduling/planning experience. 
• Must have experience managing or leading a planning group.
• Must be able to travel on business related trips (10%).
• Must possess strong written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office and other productivity/communication tools

Preferred:  

• Knowledge of APO tools, implementation and maintenance at the material level
• Fluent in Spanish
• APICs certification a plus
• Preferred SAP knowledge as it pertains to manufacturing planning and scheduling.

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