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., in Minneapolis, MN, is seeking a Production Planner to organize and schedule production. The role interfaces across operations and sales, analyzes capacity, and drives master schedule adherence.

Qualified candidates have a Bachelor's degree and 3–5 years in manufacturing, with strong Excel and SAP/MRP knowledge. No sponsorship is available for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in operations, business, or equivalent.
• 3–5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Microsoft Office focus on Excel; SAP experience preferred.
• Familiar with MRP software and SAP.

Responsibilities

• Develop, monitor, and maintain schedules to meet customer demand.
• Serve as primary information conduit between operations and commercial.
• Analyze schedules for critical path, risk, and variance.
• Monitor capacity and resolve constraints using level-loading, expediting, outsourcing.
• Identify and resolve urgent schedule issues.
• Lead resolution of manufacturing issues to support master schedule.
• Integrate and analyze project backlog data.
• Compile and analyze KPIs and visual management indicators.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Initiative

Problem solving

Customer service

Interpersonal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Operations/Business or equivalent

Tools

SAP

MRP software

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

Company cannot provide sponsorship for this position