Manufacturing Front-End Planner - Scheduling & Lead Times

Goulds Pumps IPG LLC; Town of Seneca Falls (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ITT Goulds Pumps is seeking a Front-End Planner to join their Seneca Falls, NY team. The role focuses on gathering data, analyzing scheduling plans, and coordinating with supply chain, contract managers, customer service, project teams and sales.

It is an onsite position with typical hours Monday–Friday, 7am–4pm. Responsibilities include establishing lead-times, creating high-level schedules for pump orders, and collaborating with engineering, sourcing, and planning to ensure feasible delivery

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in production planning in a manufacturing setting.
• Experience expediting parts and products through the manufacturing process.
• Experience participating in inventory management and lead time planning.
• Bachelor's degree is preferred.
• Planning of foundry, machining, or fabrication areas/activities is required.
• MRP experience including forecasting and stocking levels is required, SAP is preferred.
• Strong communication skills to work with both domestic and international project teams.
• Strong product/parts knowledge and understanding of manufacturing, purchasing and planning process.
• Technical background/ability to interpret blueprints.
• Lean inventory management process.
• Highly organized with excellent follow-up skills.
• Customer interface experience is required.
• Safety is a core value at ITT. Our employees understand and follow all ITT safety policies and procedures, participate in workplace inspections, safety training, and in the development of job safety analyses.

Responsibilities

• Support sales team quotation process by establishing lead-times and premiums for all products that require less than standard lead time.
• Solely responsible for the initial order review that establishes the high-level schedule plan for all Pump Orders.
• Establish final project scheduled for Contract Managers after configuration is complete. This often will require obtaining special commitments from Global suppliers.
• Collaborate with engineering, sourcing, and production planning teams to validate feasibility and delivery timelines.
• Expedite and re-prioritize Seneca Falls Manufacturing needs and Vendors as required.
• Obtain data, participate and present metrics and countermeasures in daily management process.
• Assist in reducing cycle time and increasing on time performance/revenue.
• Review and manage excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory by prioritizing consumption of on-hand materials during order entry.
• Process factory order change notifications and factory order change inquiries.
• Support continuous improvement of planning parameters and quoting tools.
• Participate in S&OP / demand planning processes.

Skills

Production planning

Expediting

Inventory management

Communication

Lean inventory

Blueprint reading

Customer interface

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

ITT Goulds Pumps is seeking a Front-End Planner to join their Seneca Falls, NY team. The role focuses on gathering data, analyzing scheduling plans, and coordinating with supply chain, contract managers, customer service, project teams and sales.

It is an onsite position with typical hours Monday–Friday, 7am–4pm. Responsibilities include establishing lead-times, creating high-level schedules for pump orders, and collaborating with engineering, sourcing, and planning to ensure feasible delivery