What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at Chalfant Manufacturing?
PRODUCTION PLANNER
Are you interested in working with a great, local manufacturing company? Well, you found the right place at Chalfant!
Chalfant Manufacturing is a member of the OBO Bettermann Group and has over seventy years experience making and designing quality cable tray and cable management systems right here in the USA. We offer a complete line of cable tray systems in the most popular styles and finishes, including industry leading advancements like our self connecting GR_Magic and RKS-Magic lines as well as our BKRS- Walkable Tray Line.
What Will You Do at Chalfant? The ideal candidate will be able to successfully plan and coordinate production activities, ensuring efficient use of resources and meeting production goals. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain a feasible production or supplier plans, escalates disruptions, and can troubleshoot and resolve problems.
- Competent in all production planning work processes and procedures for area of responsibility
- Is able to develop rapport and relationships with local and cross functional resources and/or suppliers to solve problems.
- Proactively escalates customer issues, business system issues, data integrity issues, and internal department backlogs
- Is able to analyze supply and demand plan and develop a recommended action
- Thorough understanding of production and/or supplier performance metrics
- Manages own time effectively to complete daily work routing and objectives
- Demonstrates strong knowledge of supply chain concepts
- Is able to recommend new ideas and willingly supports change initiatives
- Demonstrates urgency when addressing customer requests
- Is able to train new associates and/or suppliers on departmental processes
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree; or 2 years of supply chain experience
- Compete in using MS office Software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Sage 500, SAP, or Oracle experience a plus