Production Planner

Barnes Group Inc. - Barnes Aerospace Lansing has a challenging and rewarding career opportunity exists for a Production Planner. The ideal candidate will partner with division leaders to implement processes to grow the business and drive cost reduction. If you are a self-motivated, career-minded individual with a solid materials background and with the skills to lead improvement, please submit your resume for further consideration. This position reports to the Supply Chain Manager.

Core Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Capacity Planning, Detail scheduling, Material requisitions and shop floor and inventory control.
• Schedule work for individual operations/machines and develops, maintains and drive schedule execution, considering raw materials and shipping dates of products.
• Ensure alignment of the Master Schedule in relation to booked and forecast Sales/Production Plan. May monitor various product lines.
• Balance the Capacity Plan and communicate needed adjustments to production supervisors and materials supervisors. Alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Execute decisions concerning detailed scheduling and shop floor control to maintain schedule adherence. Monitor Performance and correct problems. * Work with Engineering to manage the introduction of new parts into production.
• Work with customer service and production to on all changes, schedule cancellations, and/or customer schedule push-ins/push-outs.
• Work with estimating to proactively identify capacity constraints and facilitate improving capacity to ensure potential customer demands.
• Identify and document process problems to management and quality with proposed recommended solutions to improve operations

Qualifications:

• Experience in production scheduling and manufacturing or related field or equivalent work experience
• Advanced knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Organizational and problem-solving skills.
• MRP system experience in production/material inventory control.
• Knowledge of processes and machines related to products manufactured within given business unit.
• Advanced ability to communicate both written and orally in the English language

Education Requirements

• BS Degree in Business, Logistics, Materials Management or Operations is preferred.
• High School Diploma or GED required.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

• Production planning: 2 years (Required)
• MRP: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: One location