What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at NSK Precision America, Inc. (NPA)?
Activities and Responsibilities
- Cycle count inventory and maintain an accurate inventory count for your product type all year long.
- Plans and manages production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company’s productive capacity.
- Analyzes sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements.
- Manages inventory levels, notify management of inventory issues, work with other departments well.
- Answers order termination or cancellation requests from sales.
- Reviews work in process material on production floor.
- Receives and reviews sales orders against current requirements and work in process using the material requirement planning report. (MRP)
- Interfaces with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department and supervisors on material status and production planning issues.
- Performs purchasing duties on "outside process materials" including order placement, expediting, coordinating receipt of material in production sequencing, and act as liaison with quality and engineering departments.
- Maintains/updates manufacturing system/MRP system for assigned product types.
Experience
Preferred- 4 - 6 years: Position-related experience
Education
Preferred- Associates or better
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)