What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at Nederman?
Are You?
- Ready to use your skills to drive and lead the team to success?
- Hungry to always find a better way of doing things?
- Thrilled about working for a global industry leader in its mission to shape the future for clean air?
At Nederman, our mission is to protect people, planet, and production from harmful effects of industrial processes. By doing that, we contribute to efficient production, environmental benefits, and safer workplaces. Clean air is a cornerstone of sustainable production.
Nederman protects people, planet, and production through sustainable practices and solutions. We believe in making the life of our customers easy and safe. We believe in digitalization, in the simple not the complex. We believe in enlightened employees, collaboration, and cross-pollination within organization to allow us to act proactively and innovate our offer and business model in a way that others cannot. As leaders, we know that speed is important at the same time as we don’t settle for anything less than excellence. We have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change. We respect the environment and each other, have the courage to act and a sustainable customer focus. We are the Clean Air Company.
Job Summary:
The Planner will work closely with the Supply Chain Manager to ensure that customer needs are met on a daily basis. You will also work with the purchasing team to ensure that purchase orders are coming in on time to eliminate material shortages. Planning will include work order allocation and work flow on the shop floor.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Production Scheduling:
- Create and maintain production schedule daily using the Company’s ERP system
- Work with Production Planner and Operations Manager to ensure everything is ready for production, seek to reduce setups, priority flag items and optimize schedule.
- Calculate inventory requirements for WIP on a daily basis.
- Create work charts for the work centers.
Customer Service and Support:
- Interaction with Sales companies, including service and configured teams.(orders, general lead time requests, manual customer order entry), in a timely manner.
- Respond to inquiries from manufacturing team in a timely manner.
- Approve incoming customer orders throughout the day.
- Confirm Customer orders to Sales Teams.
- Ensure that 1st confirmed ship dates are kept.
Qualifications
Your Experience & Education
- Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Planner
- Associates Degree, Post-Secondary Education, APICS (CPIM) or equivalent experience in material planning
- Basic knowledge of buying, customer service, and material flow
- Excellent math and analytical skills
- Deadline driven
- Organizational and time-management skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with all levels of employees
- Strong excel skills would be considered an asset
- Technical skills using material requirements planning software
- SAP or IFS scheduling experience would be considered an asset
Your Skills & Traits:
- Good business acumen and drive
- Initiative and enthusiasm
- Social, flexible and ability to motivate other people
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Control cost and think in terms profitability and added value
- Deliver quality and personal efficiency
- Express opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly
- Establish good relations with customers and staff
- Show social responsibility and care about the environment
- Good interpersonal skills to build effective working relationships with Purchase/Planning team
What we offer is more than just a job…
- An opportunity to be part of a truly innovative and fast-growing international company
- A team-focused work environment where your efforts won’t go unnoticed or unappreciated
- Competitive compensation and benefits including PTO, health care insurance, 401K, disability, and life insurance
Applicants for employment are to be considered for employment based on the individual applicant’s qualifications and without regard to race, color, creed, gender, age, disability, national origin, religion, veteran status, uniform service member status, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, genetic information, or on account of membership in any protected category under federal, state, and local laws.
