What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at ELECTRIC MACHINERY COMPANY LLC, a division of WEG?
Job Description
Job Description
Description :
Electric Machinery Company, a division of WEG Electric Corp.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Position : Production Planner
Department : Production Planning and Control
Reports to : Production and Planning Manager
Primary Objective of Position :
The Production Planner is responsible for creating, organizing, guiding and scheduling production. Provides resource analysis, detailed manufacturing schedules and production plans. Carries out studies and projections to avoid bottlenecks while monitoring the production process in order to optimize capacity, utilization and quality.
Major Areas of Accountability :
- Responsible for developing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining summary schedules to meet customer demand.
- Acts as primary information conduit between operations and commercial departments.
- Performs schedule analysis such as critical path identification, schedule risk identification, and variance investigation.
- Performs capacity monitoring and analysis to identify and resolve capacity constraints using proven industry best-practices such as level-loading, expediting, and outsourcing.
- Proactively identifies and manages the resolution of critical schedule issues.
- Leads resolution of urgent product manufacturing issues to support master schedule
- Integrates, maintains and analyzes primary data related to project backlog and history.
- Compiles and analyzes Key Performance and Visual Management Indicators.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities :
Physical Requirements :
Company cannot provide sponsorship for this position
Please, no agencies
Requirements :
