Factory Buyer/Planner

STULZ USA; Denton (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a skilled Production Planner to join their dynamic team. This role involves creating and maintaining production schedules to meet customer demands while optimizing resources. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and a customer-first mindset, ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. If you have a passion for supply chain management and a knack for problem-solving, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Paid paternity leave

Tuition assistance

Qualifications

• Experience in creating and managing balanced supply plans.
• Strong understanding of Supply Chain design and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the manufacturing production plan.
• Optimize production schedules based on customer demand.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Production Planning

Data Analysis

ERP Systems

Customer Relationship Management

Process Improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management

5 years experience in manufacturing supply chain

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

JDE

Job description

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Establish and maintain the Manufacturing Production Schedule and implement sourcing plans and tactics for assigned products. The Production Schedule must be feasible and ensure that adequate capacity and material supply exist to meet customer requirements. Ongoing communication with affected functions and stakeholders is expected to facilitate balance supply with demand, meeting customer requirements and fully utilizing manufacturing resources.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain the manufacturing production plan and create manufacturing orders per plan
• Optimize production schedules in accordance to customer demand and availability capacity
• Accountable for downstream replenishment and timely release of manufacturing orders
• Identify and address short-term supply constraints within the weeks process (long-term constraints within monthly process); analyze daily supply/demand alerts and address or escalate accordingly
• Interface with QA and warehouse staff regarding rejected/defective materials, making the necessary arrangements with operations or procurement to ensure prompt replacement
• Participate in Supply Plan development and in establishing planning time fences for aggregate Supply Plans and for detail Master Plans
• Translate the Production Plan into a schedule for producing or procuring components, materials and services
• Maintain and provide valid lead time data to sales and marketing organization to guard against over-committing company resources and/or parts and materials
• Identify and resolve conflicts with supply and demand, and availability of capacity in conjunction with Operations Leadership
• Schedule and process customer shipments
• Inventory transactions – back up for the Material Handler
• Occasional travel is required

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience creating and managing feasible and balanced supply plans, in accordance with demand, to support targets consistent with customer requirements for short, medium and long-term capacity planning
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships and collaboration key stakeholders
• Ability to proactively diagnose and address potential issues in supply shortage or customer service interruption (e.g. resource requirements planning constraints)
• Possess a customer-first mindset to understand customer needs and exceed customer expectations
• Possess a strong understanding and awareness of the principles of extended Supply Chain management and fundamentals of Supply Chain design and strategy
• Data mining reporting skills through MS-Excel; specifically, V-lookup and Pivot tables
• Ability to drive continuous process improvement and lead small scale projects
• Experience proactively seeking to leverage existing IS capabilities to improve current and future Supply Chain performance (e.g., systems, reports or metrics)
• Ability to apply appropriate process improvement tools, technique and Supply Chain metrics to measure, analyze, diagnose and improve future performance
• Possess a strong attention to detail
• Have a strong understanding of range of production planning and execution systems

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering is preferred
• 5 years production/planning/schedule work experience in a manufacturing supply chain
• Strong ERP systems and computer software experience (e.g. SAP, JDE, Excel, etc.)
• Manufacturing Planning experience with custom configuration, high-mix, low-volume manufacturing
• Proficiency in MS Office, Word

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• CPSM, CPM, APICS CPIM certification

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and understand English

Mathematical Skills:

• Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Descriptive Statistics

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those

that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position, operate a computer, phone, and other office machinery, position self to move, communicate, and exchange information. The employee must be able to move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision ability required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an office environment in a manufacturing plant.S

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Manufacturing, Distribution, and Analyst

• Industries

  Industrial Machinery Manufacturing, Manufacturing, and Electrical Equipment Manufacturing

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Paid paternity leave

Tuition assistance

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