Planner

Salary Range - $60-$65k plus 5% annual bonus and full benefits

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish production schedules to meet customer expectations while maintaining a consistent production environment
• Prepare and consolidate job documentation and instructions for shop floor activities.
• Analyze, plan, and manage production schedules based on capacities of equipment, material, machine and labor.
• Analyze current, backlog job orders, and accordingly develop/adjust production plan and schedules.
• Develop and negotiate lead times with commercial and operation teams based on customer requirement and material, labor and machine capacities. Elevate any issues to master planning for regional resolution.
• Monitor the execution of work orders, engineering drawings, and material flow to meet establish production schedules
• Review production plan, and inventory levels to identify risks and communicate required long-range capacity changes required to the Plant Manager and Master Planner.
• Plan inventory management to avoid any shortages and excesses.
• Review, change, and communicate required schedule changes to purchasing, operations, and commercial teams
• Develop and document process improvements for inventory, manufacturing and production control systems to meet business objectives.
• Investigate production control problems, analyze root causes, and derive solutions.
• Develop positive relationship with operation and commercial staffing to meet customer demand and productivity goals.
• Work with materials, manufacturing and purchasing departments in identifying and resolving production planning problems.

Requirements

• Ability to handle multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to interact with all levels within the organizations, both internal and external.
• Ability to maintain accurate records
• Ability to maintain excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in manufacturing shop floor environment
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and Power Point
• Minimum Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business or comparable work experience

About Wastequip

Founded in 1989, Wastequip is the leading manufacturer of waste handling equipment in North America. We specialize in products, systems and solutions to help you collect, store, transport and manage a wide range of waste and recyclables. Wastequip is one of the few companies that manufactures a complete line of both steel and plastic waste handling equipment. We built our stress-free solutions with you in mind, making Wastequip the perfect place for one-stop sourcing.

Wastequip’s extensive product selection includes dumpsters, compactors, balers, carts and more. Our products are built to handle collection of household, commercial, and industrial waste and recyclables.