What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at Wichita Machine Products?
Company Summary
Wichita Machine Products is an aerospace machine and assembly shop that takes great pride in producing high quality parts and assemblies. We are looking for an experienced team player with a strong work ethic to join our team.
Position Summary
We are currently seeking an experienced Production Planner to join our team. In this position you will be responsible for developing manufacturing plans for aerospace details and precision assemblies. In addition to the development of the plan, this role is also responsible for the creation of production jobs based on customer demand.
Job responsibilities
- Responsible for developing and maintaining manufacturing plans, BOM’s, and work instructions to define and document build to print configurations ensuring customer requirements are met.
- Reviews and interprets customer specifications, blueprints, and other related technical specifications to ensure requirements are incorporated into product manufacturing plan.
- Create rework planning based on non-conformance rework disposition and Quality/Engineering rework instructions.
- Responsible for resolving planning issues by working with the customer to resolve unknown engineering requirements.
- Responsible for the creation of new production jobs based on customer demand.
- Utilizes problem solving skills to provide practical solutions to problems as they arise.
- Communicates professionally with both internal and external customers.
Requirements
- Three plus years of Aerospace Planning/ME or Quality Engineering experience required.
- Global Shop ERP system experience strongly preferred.
- Extensive experience reading and understanding aerospace engineering requirements including parts lists, blueprints, specifications, standards.
- Knowledge of GD&T required.
- High school diploma required.
- Must be a self-motivated individual with high attention to detail that can work unsupervised.
- Strong ability to multi-task
- Must be a US citizen or permanent resident.
- Pre-employment drug test and background check required prior to start of employment.