Production Planner

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Management of all work order, purchase order and sales order documentation in support of on time delivery and inventory accuracy; ensures and maintains integrity of accompanying paperwork.
• Act as liaison with external suppliers or sister divisions and/or internal support groups such as Production Planning, Quality Control, Shipping/Receiving and others for timely movement of manufacturing processes and materials.
• Co-ordinate and monitor movement of material and parts in relation to overall product progress; identify behind schedule programs and reports deviations to Operations Management; report overall performance of their product family against schedule when necessary.
• Manage on-time delivery to satisfy internal customer requirements.
• Manage inventory transactions including material issue, transfers between branch plants, receipts from work order closures and issue pick slips, shipping memos and other documents as needed to support schedule.
• Compile and maintain manual or computerized records such as material inventory, in-process production reports and status and location of materials.
• Manage weekly health metric; outstanding STO Transactions
• Obtain/Maintain information from other sites for in-transit parts.

• Interpersonal skills
• Project Management skills
• Presentation skills
• Customer Focus
• Organizational Agility
• Problem solving ability.
• Proactivity
• Ability to build and develop Customer & Supplier relationships.
• Self-motivated and a self-starter

• University degree in Materials Management or Business Administration, or related discipline
• At least 1 year experience in material planning and inventory control in a manufacturing environment
• Previous ERP experience (i.e. JD Edwards, Impressa, SAP) would be considered an asset
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications
• Self-motivated to ensure accountability, disciplined to improve processes, passionate about production planning, and organized to track many work streams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Organized with the ability to multi-task while driving actions to completion.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Physical Requirements & Work Environment:

• Mostly Office Environments, Occasional Shop Floor involvement.
• Substantial amounts of telephone and computer work.
• Heavily Regulated Industries with strict adherence to procedures.
• Flexibility to meet business deadlines by staying late or arriving early.
• Typical 8 hour days plus lunch / 40 hour weeks / core (required) hours are 9AM to 4PM
• Ability to use personal transportation to visit customer locations.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.