What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner Manager position at Ahlstrom?
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Position title
Production Planning Manager
Name of the position holder
Business area
Production
Location
Windsor Locks
Legal company
Ahlstrom Non Wovens
Manager (name, position title)
Plant Manager, Windsor locks
Number of direct subordinates
3
Geographical responsibility area
Operations
Budget responsibility (net sales in EUR)
Purpose of the job
Leads the production demand planning team at Windsor Locks site to ensure that customer needs and business objectives are meet through proper planning and scheduling of the manufacturing assets at Windsor Locks.
Main responsibility areas
- Leads demand planning team and is responsible for performance management of demand planners.
- Support plant manager and the area managers in the development of the utilization plan of each to the manufacturing assets.
- Collaborate with cross function (and intercompany) to determine capability and available capacity for new demand/product.
- Participates in Annual Planning for capacity.
- Prioritizes orders and trials to resolve scheduling and capacity conflicts on individual machines at Windsor Locks.
- Coordinates Windsor Locks activities with other Ahlstrom Plants. Both inside and outside of Medical BU.
- Represents Windsor Locks planning in BU level processes such as S&OP and Sales tactical calls.
- Creates new production grades for Windsor Locks
This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and may not necessarily comprise all the “essential functions” for purposes of the ADA
Communication
(position’s responsibility for communications both within and outside the organization)
Internally
Communicate with Operations Management, Quality management, Logistics, customer service, maintenance management, Site leadership.
Externally
Ahlstrom Commercial teams from BU supported, VPs of support BUs, Ahlstrom plants for inter-company planning
Experience and education
(minimum level of knowledge and skills to fulfill one’s responsibilities)
Work experience
- Prior experience as a demand and supply planner
Formal education
Master’s degree, pulp/paper science, engineering, finance or business, preferred
Bachelor’s degree, required
Required competencies
Core Competencies
- Strong leadership skills
- Must be well organized and highly efficient.
- Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills required.
- Excellent facilitation skills and listening skills.
- Strong team development skills.
- Knowledge of change management principles.
- Knowledge of demand planning and scheduling principles
- Coaching
- Ability to understand manufacturing operation losses and develop plan to improve
- Rapid Problem Solving
Date
3/28/24
Prepared by
Randall Feher
Ahlstrom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal opportunity is a sound and just concept to which we are firmly bound. Ahlstrom will not engage in discrimination against, or harassment of, any person employed or seeking employment with our company based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, non-disqualifying disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.
About Us.
Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Our purpose is to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. Our vision is to be the Preferred Sustainable Specialty Materials Company for all our stakeholders. Our three divisions, Filtration and Life Sciences, Food and Consumer Packaging, and Protective Materials, address global trends with safe and sustainable solutions. Our net sales in 2024 amounted to EUR 3.0 billion and we employ some 6,800 people.
Learn more at www.ahlstrom.com
