Lead Production Planner | SAP/ERP & Scheduling

ELANTAS North America, LLC; City of Schenectady (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ELANTAS North America, LLC is seeking a Production Planning Manager to lead the planning group and develop production schedules to meet customer demand. The role requires coordinating with customer service, procurement, material handling, manufacturing, and logistics to execute the schedule.

The position requires a Bachelor's or Associate degree in supply chain management or business, and at least 10 years in production planning or logistics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or associate degree in supply chain management or general business.
• Ten years of experience in production planning, logistics, or production management.
• SAP or ERP/MRP system experience.
• CPIM or CSCP certification preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be well disciplined, organized, and structured.

Responsibilities

• Assist the organization to create a safe and healthy working environment by working safely, using equipment provided and following instructions given for health and safety purposes and immediately reporting any unsafe working practices or hazardous working conditions.
• Manage and develop the planning team to meet organization needs. Provides professional support, guidance, and backup to all Production Planners.
• Liaison with shop resources, customers, supply chain personnel, quality assurance, production, engineering production-planning personnel and Company leadership to meet production and quality requirements. Works with leaders in those areas to manage issues when escalated.
• Develop and manage production schedules ensuring efficient and timely delivery of product within budget and other commercial and financial expectations.
• Recommend suggestions for improvement to process to manager and implement.
• Work with manager to recommend how SAP works with the physical operations.
• Physical inventory support as required by Manager - Internal Supply Chain
• Support material disposal due to expiration and / or quality.
• Identify and implement process improvements that contribute, but not limited to; reduce waste, reduce inventories, improve service levels and/ or improve machine utilization.
• Leads weekly planning sessions with production to develop production schedules.
• Create and maintain up to date SAP master data (BOMs/routings/etc.) and procedures as a subset of Production Planning.
• ERP MRP super-user

Skills

Production planning

Logistics

Communication

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's or Associate degree in supply chain management or general business

CPIM or CSCP certification preferred

Tools

SAP

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

ELANTAS North America, LLC is seeking a Production Planning Manager to lead the planning group and develop production schedules to meet customer demand. The role requires coordinating with customer service, procurement, material handling, manufacturing, and logistics to execute the schedule.

The position requires a Bachelor's or Associate degree in supply chain management or business, and at least 10 years in production planning or logistics.