Production Planner

Description

Why join Reily Foods Company? We're family owned and have a passion for flavor providing iconic coffee and tea beverages that have created memories for over 120 years! Join our New Orleans team at our Luzianne Manufacturing facility.

Job Summary: The Production Scheduler plays a key role in helping us meet the needs of our customers. This position requires a high degree of collaboration with our Operations, Food Safety Quality Assurance, Purchasing, Warehousing, and Sales Teams.  Key responsibilities include creating detailed production schedules for all production areas while ensuring these schedules are being met and optimized, resolving challenges/obstacles, and ensuring that the organization can provide a high level of service to our customers. This role is very dynamic and provides real opportunities to drive continuous improvement in the business.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:  

• Plans, creates, and maintains the production schedule based upon demand planning, actual sales orders, internal capacity, and factors affecting schedule attainment while being as cost effective as possible
• Understand basic principles of supplier lead time, inventory days on hand, demand variability and forecasting, and minimum order quantities for best price
• Addresses weekly production order issues, revises Production orders and schedules as needed due to business demands or inventory discrepancies and communicates changes to key stakeholders and departments
• Identifies root causes in schedule attainment failures or misses and collaborates with other departments to identify and analyze the root cause. Develops improvements to avoid future failures
• Communicates with Production about schedule changes and clarifies any open questions regarding schedules or priorities
• Accurately completes, processes and files all daily production reports/logs, quality records and any other related production documentation
• Leads & participates in Change Control Management on new items/new materials
• Monitors and maintains appropriate inventories of Raw Material and Finished Goods
• Provides assistance to related departments when applicable (supplier invoice discrepancies with accounting, non-conforming material, supplier root cause and corrective actions with quality) 
• Notifies Production Manager and Supervisors of aged and slow-moving inventory
• Understands MRP outputs in AX and effectively plans the production schedule and material inventory around them
• Schedules and manages batches in ERP system including the appropriate status to support system, production and purchasing activities
• Monitors new product or rework demands and works with Production team to effectively schedule around production demands
• Produces required reports for Leadership team using information from AX and other sources
• Reviews production operation and processes and proactively identifies and implements opportunities for continuous improvement
• Interact with suppliers to manage portfolio including forecast, ordering, and expediting of material 
• Attends and participates in daily production meetings
• Supports the Receiving Lead by providing backup support for inventory receiving, paperwork, and batch order completion
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• AA or BA in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management or related curriculum or 3 years of relevant experience in a production scheduling/planning role
• Knowledge of Material Resource Planning, inventory control and order management
• Experience with ERP systems
• Strong computer skills with the ability to learn new software quickly
• Intermediate Excel knowledge
• Strong attention to detail with good organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Positive attitude and team player