What are the responsibilities and job description for the Demand Planner position at Sterling Engineering?
Title: Production/Demand Planner
Location: Cary, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $80-85K
Must have: experience in a manufacturing environment
Misc: This role is 100% on-site
Position Summary
Provide a regular updated production schedule to operation leadership that is consistent with the master production schedule and customer demands. Meet customer requirements by sourcing outside operations and coordinate incoming component and materials which complete sub and final assemblies. Ensure that materials are stocked to correct levels, so that appropriate workflow occurs through the production operation.
Principal Activities
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Location: Cary, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $80-85K
Must have: experience in a manufacturing environment
Misc: This role is 100% on-site
Position Summary
Provide a regular updated production schedule to operation leadership that is consistent with the master production schedule and customer demands. Meet customer requirements by sourcing outside operations and coordinate incoming component and materials which complete sub and final assemblies. Ensure that materials are stocked to correct levels, so that appropriate workflow occurs through the production operation.
Principal Activities
- Develop and own the production schedule for assigned area.
- Responsible for material scheduling, updating ERP system and editing routine documents.
- Creates and schedules Manufacturing Orders (MOs) and Return Material Authorization (RMA) rework orders.
- Provides a check at the completion of MOs. Assuring that materials, scrap and labor are issued.
- Facilitates communication between multiple teams internally and externally to analyze and identify risks associated with the options built into the master production plan, including manufacturing lead times.
- Makes delivery commitments on MTO products, which involve checking uncommitted material and availability of capacity.
- Monitors actual versus plan and identifies gaps and drives solutions on production performance relative to the production schedule.
- Timely reporting of key deliverables to plant leaders
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret business documents, technical procedures, or operating procedures.
- Ability to write reports and business correspondence, effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and customers.
- Knowledge of Lean manufacturing methods and techniques;(i.e. Kanbans, data driven thinking, RCCM).
- A technical degree in production, operations or complimentary discipline would be beneficial and/or equivalent experience in production scheduling within a discrete manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge and experience in MRP/ERP systems; use of MS Dynamics ERP is preferred.
- Experience and applied use of Microsoft Products, Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
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Salary : $80,000 - $85,000
