What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at TAGHLEEF INDUSTRIES?
Production Planner Role
The Production Planner will play a key role in the Supply Chain to utilize their knowledge of planning and inventory management, lean manufacturing concepts, and software to ensure timely and accurate customer order delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish collaborative relationships with Sales, Logistics, Procurement, Manufacturing, and other departments as necessary to meet internal and external customer needs.
- Maintain the Master Production Schedule (MPS) for assigned production lines to achieve adequate lead times, inventory levels, and production efficiencies.
- Train new team members on production line demands.
- Determine and assign order finish dates for cost-effective on-time delivery.
- Generate and review daily reports on production activity, order backlog, inventory status, and other metrics, presenting them to relevant employees within the organization to facilitate decision-making.
- Work with the Planning Manager on the S&OP process.
- Interact directly with key customers to execute Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programs.
- Monitor production plan deviations and initiate corrective action in a timely manner.
- Contribute to processing inter-company purchase orders to import film as needed to supplement North American capacity.
- Continuously review inventory to prevent obsolete inventory and decrease days of supply without impacting customer service.
- Provide accurate and timely communication of production shortages or delays.
- Identify issues impacting customer satisfaction and engage relevant departments to quickly resolve the issues.
- Partner with Manufacturing to achieve high customer service levels while achieving operational efficiencies.
- Help identify and prioritize system improvements within SAP (MRP) and Optivision (shop floor).
- Work with Business Directors on setting production priorities and scheduling trials for product development.
- Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Technology, or related field preferred.
- Minimum 3 years' direct experience working as a Production Planner.
- Experience in forecasting and demand planning in fast-moving consumer packaged goods environment highly preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel/Access and Business Warehouse reporting tools.
- Experience and proficiency in SAP is essential.
- Strong analytical, systems, and numeracy skills with capability to master complexity.
- Demonstrated bias for continuous improvement, problem-solving, change management.
- Group collaboration expertise as team member and team leader.
- Strong judgment and decision-making ability.
- Comfortable with ambiguity.
- Superior team player who remains calm under challenging situations.
- Strategy and systems thinking perspectives.
- Manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to effectively influence across levels and functions.
- Strong customer focus (internal & external).
- Strong Business Acumen.
- Ability to work within cross-functional teams and independently.
- Detail-oriented with understanding of big picture.
- Some travel may be required.
Taghleef is a Drug-Free Workplace. Must pass pre-employment drug screen and background check.
Taghleef Industries, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
