MASTER PLANNER

Master Planner Job Description:

The Master Planner will be responsible to lead a team in creating the Production schedules for the three Warsaw sites to best satisfy current and forecasted demand, while meeting business objectives of safety, quality, on time delivery, competitive customer lead times, profitability and inventory. The Master Planner will lead the SIOP process for the sites to consolidate forecasted demand and facilitate plan development for meeting future needs. The role is also responsible for creating and presenting Capacity Forecasts for New products to support Customer SIOP meetings and quote submissions. The Master Planner will support daily management activities to ensure commitments are achieved, communicate order status to customer service, and ensure project management teams are supported.

The role requires the above to be accomplished within Tecomet’s principles of continuous improvement, customer driven innovation and a win first culture, while meeting company financial and other performance metrics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyzing customer forecasts and the development of a sales plan, production plan, inventory plan, customer lead time (backlog) plan, new product development plan, strategic initiative plan and resulting financial plan.
• Ability to understand and utilize MRP to its fullest extent and how master data drives material requirement planning.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels to meet and exceed inventory targets and turns; as well as seek opportunities to reduce inventory through various techniques such as lot size optimization, off-the-shelf vs. MTO analysis, Kanban, etc.
• Full understanding of re-order points and safety stock formulas; as well as the impact on different ways of calculating.
• Ability to create a production plan, understand level loading, capacity planning, sequential and concurrent scheduling in order to maximize production efficiency by minimizing change overs, down time, and over time.
• Lead production planning meetings and communicate when a gap exists between demand vs. capacity.
• Work with manufacturing to come up with creative scheduling techniques and adjusting of resources to improve overall efficiency.
• Understand Production Attainment, and working with manufacturing to optimize scheduling to the fullest extent to ensure capacity is maximized and production orders are closed out on-time.
• Ability to drive root cause for missed shipments and help to implement corrective actions to ensure Customer fill rate targets are achieved and sustained.
• Proactively identify potential shortages against scheduled production orders and work with appropriate team to resolve these shortages to ensure on-time completion.
• Evaluate slow moving items and work with appropriate groups to propose clean-up, re-work, obsolescence, changes to lot sizing, stock status etc.
• Conduct daily/weekly production meetings as needed.
• Provide on time delivery metrics daily.
• Responsible for leading and directing Planning staff as assigned including evaluations.
• Communicate effectively both internally and externally at all levels.
  

Qualification Requirements

Educational/Training Requirement:

• BS degree preferred in Business Administration or similar. A combination of education and experience will be considered.

Experience:

• 6 years of experience in Planning and Procurement
• Supervisory skills and Customer interfacing experience, required
• Master scheduling to manage open orders and driving the production planning process
• Leading weekly SIOP meetings, preferred

Licenses/Certifications:

• APICS certification a plus or equivalent

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office
• Decision–making capabilities
• Expert knowledge of Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
• Advanced Microsoft skills, particularly MS Excel, Pivot tables and ability to download and manipulate data quickly and easily using advanced functions
• Ability to apply LEAN concepts and good understanding of Pull systems
• Excellent communication and follow-up skills
• Expert Capacity Planning
• Able to communicate at all levels of the organization
  

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