Production Planner

Champion Home Builders, Inc.; Decatur (IN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Plan with Company Match

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Medical

Rx

Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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).

Skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Education

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

Job description

Good Life Begins With A Good Company.

Champion Home Builders, Inc. wants YOU! We are seeking to hire a Production Planner to join our team in the Decatur, IN region.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

• 401k Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Medical
• Rx
• Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.

WHO IS CHAMPION HOME BUILDERS, INC.?

For decades, Champion has served as a leader in the manufactured housing industry and one of the largest mobile and modular home builders in North America. Champion offers many factory-built solutions, from single-family and multi-family homes to commercial and government buildings. Our manufactured homes, modular homes, mobile homes, park models, and commercial modular buildings can be found throughout the United States and western Canada.

Throughout the organization, we act with integrity and respect. We take pride in our craftsmanship and build strong relationships with our customers, suppliers, and our employees. We know that we would not be successful without our team. In return for hard work and dedication, our goal is to provide a safe, productive, and enjoyable workplace for every employee.

Job Title: Production Planer - Decatur Hub

FLSA Status: Exempt

As a Production Planner, you will be an integral part of the production team, working closely with purchasing, the production team, and freight suppliers. You will take a leadership role in managing and optimizing work orders coming from customer plants, ensuring the seamless flow of work and materials through our manufacturing process, and managing the outflow of material through packaging and final shipping. You will play a major role in verifying the accuracy of the orders, optimizing the production schedule, while making sure raw material inventory is adequate. In addition to these responsibilities, you will assist the buyer in procuring direct and in working with accounts payables for the accounting of month end material inventory. We are seeking a candidate with a proven track record, strong attention to detail, strategic thinking abilities, and excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• 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).

Qualifications

• S. 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.

Physical Demands

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 the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, traverse stairs, stoop and bend. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

EEO Statement

Champion Home Builders is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Champion Home Builders participates in the E-Verify Program.