Decatur-area Production Planner — Optimize Schedules & Materials

Champion Home Builders, Inc.; Decatur (IN); In loco; USD 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

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401k Plan with Company Match

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Descrizione del lavoro

Champion Home Builders, Inc. is seeking a Production Planner for the Decatur, IN area to lead production scheduling and material flow.

You will work with purchasing, production, and freight teams to optimize work orders, ensure accurate orders, and maintain adequate raw material inventory. The role emphasizes coordinating with accounts payable, improving supplier lead times, and driving continuous improvement while supporting month-end material accounting.

Competenze

• BS in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of manufacturing or relevant experience.
• Experience in supply chain management.
• Experience in Quality Control activities, ability to identify and manage risk.
• Strong influencing, negotiation, interpersonal, and communications skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Need to be able to use a series of digital tools for capturing orders, optimizing batch runs, and interfacing with floor equipment to track orders.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced, team environment and adapt to changing business needs.
• Attention to Detail with an exceptional eye for detail and a commitment to maintaining the highest levels of data accuracy.
• Adept at collaborating in cross-functional teams and leading by example.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address complex production and supply chain issues.

Mansioni

• Daily interfaces with the production manager to provide the production schedule and the overall materials plan.
• Manages inventory of starting materials, WIP, and finished goods to support production activities.
• Monitors actual and forecasted consumption of materials and orders replenishment stock.
• Manages timely and efficient processing of orders through the procurement process. Interfaces with receiving plants weekly to assure order accuracy and develops weekly production forecast.
• Updates the pricing model based on new material and transportation costs.
• Monitors the status of open purchase orders including delivery and quality issues that may affect status.
• Reviews and evaluates safety stock levels, minimum order quantities, supplier, and QA lead times on a regular basis to identify continuous improvement opportunities including but not limited to inventory reductions.
• Manages production yield while minimizing scrap. Uses provided software to optimize component nesting from raw material.
• Manages all rejected/non-conforming material through the Material Disposition Process
• Tracks and reports production performance and interfaces with leadership on quality and throughput issues.
• Interfaces with Accounts Payables monthly to account for shop floor inventory.
• Provides support to Purchasing for credit issues with vendors.
• Coordinates the return of the material with QA, Purchasing, warehouse, and suppliers.
• Maintains complete and current knowledge of all material requirements, production processes, and issues affecting product availability, including special activities related to specific products and/or projects (for example, managing requests for special samples to support stability studies and global product registrations).

Conoscenze

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Formazione

BS in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, or equivalent

Descrizione del lavoro

Champion Home Builders, Inc. is seeking a Production Planner for the Decatur, IN area to lead production scheduling and material flow.

You will work with purchasing, production, and freight teams to optimize work orders, ensure accurate orders, and maintain adequate raw material inventory. The role emphasizes coordinating with accounts payable, improving supplier lead times, and driving continuous improvement while supporting month-end material accounting.