Production Planner

Electric Machinery Company - WEG Group; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Electric Machinery Company, a division of WEG Electric Corp., based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is seeking a Production Planner for the Production Planning and Control department. This role focuses on creating and guiding production schedules, analyzing capacity, and coordinating with operations and sales to meet customer demand.

The ideal candidate has a bachelor's degree in operations or business, 3–5 years of manufacturing planning experience, and strong MS Excel and SAP/MRP familiarity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent work experience.
• Three to five years of manufacturing planning experience.
• Strong Excel skills and ERP/MRP familiarity.
• Excellent communication with operations and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain master schedules to meet customer demand.
• Serve as primary information conduit between operations and commercial teams.
• Perform schedule analyses including critical path and risk identification.
• Monitor capacity and resolve constraints using level-loading and expediting.
• Proactively address urgent manufacturing issues to support the master schedule.
• Integrate data related to backlog and history for KPIs.
• Analyze KPIs and visual management indicators.

Skills

Initiative

Problem solving

Customer service

Interpersonal communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Business, or similar

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Electric Machinery Company, a division of WEG Electric Corp.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Position: Production Planner

Department: Production Planning and Control

Primary Objective of Position:

The Production Planner is responsible for creating, organizing, guiding and scheduling production. Provides resource analysis, detailed manufacturing schedules and production plans. Carries out studies and projections to avoid bottlenecks while monitoring the production process in order to optimize capacity, utilization and quality.

Major Areas of Accountability:

• Responsible for developing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining summary schedules to meet customer demand.
• Acts as primary information conduit between operations and commercial departments.
• Performs schedule analysis such as critical path identification, schedule risk identification, and variance investigation.
• Performs capacity monitoring and analysis to identify and resolve capacity constraints using proven industry best-practices such as level-loading, expediting, and outsourcing.
• Proactively identifies and manages the resolution of critical schedule issues.
• Leads resolution of urgent product manufacturing issues to support master schedule
• Integrates, maintains and analyzes primary data related to project backlog and history.
• Compiles and analyzes Key Performance and Visual Management Indicators.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations, Business, or similar; or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated competency strength in initiative, problem solving, customer service, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Three to Five years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office products (focus on Excel), proficiency preferred.
• Familiar with MRP software, SAP strongly preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Work is performed in both an office and manufacturing environment. Requires the ability to routinely move throughout the office and manufacturing facility to perform work.
• Requires the ability to routinely lift up to 15 lbs .
• Requires the ability to ascend and descend stairs daily to reach all areas of the manufacturing facility.

$65,000 to $75,000

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