Production Planner I

Brakebush Brothers, Inc.; Wisconsin; Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in food production is seeking a Production Planner 1 to support multiple facilities in Wisconsin. This hybrid role requires collaboration with various internal teams to ensure production requirements are met. The candidate should possess strong analytical and organizational skills and have relevant educational or professional experience in production planning.

Qualifications

• Internal candidates must have a Bachelor's or Associate degree or comparable experience.
• Ability to maintain inventories and update schedules.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills required.

Responsibilities

• Support production workload requirements and scheduling.
• Update inventories and track production variances daily.
• Maintain planning worksheets and assist with raw material requirements.

Skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or associate degree

3+ years’ experience in Production, Planning or Supply Chain logistics

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Job description

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City, State: Westfield, WI

Reports to: Production Planning Supervisor

Classification:Nonexempt

Remote: Hybrid

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary: Production Planner 1 supports the Production Planning Supervisor for Westfield, Wells and Mocksville facilities to ensure production workload requirements are met. This position involves collaboration with internal customers such as Customer Service, Maintenance, Operations, Purchasing, R&D and Sales. Ensures that the organization is always represented in a professional manner. This position will prepare the right incumbent who demonstrates readiness to advance to PPLevel 2.

Remote Work: This position, after a training period, is a hybrid of on-site (at least one day per week or as needed) and remote.

Essential Functions:

• Updates the Production Planning Team on raw material inventories daily to replicate the beginning inventory for the day. Schedules will be updated by the planning team based on this information.
• Reports any variances to the Production schedule through consistent review and comparison of items and volume produced to the prior day’s schedule and creates production orders for short and long-term planning through daily communication with the rest of the planning team.
• Maintains multiple excel worksheets for putting the weekly plan together, facilitate daily changes, and responsible for scheduling multiple lines.
• Update’s goal tracking sheets and sends out account inventories to sales.
• Assists with determining amount of raw materials, equipment and manpower needed to cover production needs with the planning team.
• Provides back-up for other Planning team members as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• INTERNAL: Bachelor’s degree or associate degree OR, 3+ years’ increasingly complex experience in Production, Planning or Supply Chain logistics.
• Bachelor’s degree or associate degree OR three years’ experience in Production, Planning or Supply Chain logistics
• Ability to communicate, collaborate and manage healthy internal relationships with all levels.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, strong analytical, math and problem-solving skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience working in production planning and control in the food industry.
• Understanding of BOM’s and Routings; knowledge of Warehouse & Inventory Management
• Advanced MS Excel skills (formula creation, graphs, pivot tables workbooks)

Supervisory Responsibility: No supervisory responsibilities

Work Environment: The work environment is an office environment with standard temperatures and normal office noise levels. Slippery floors and cool temperatures are present while in production. Must wear appropriate PPE and other equipment as necessary or required.

Physical Demands: This position would be primarily sitting with little to no lifting or other physical demands.

Position Type: Salaried Non-exempt, 1st shift, full-time, hybrid role of 80% offsite / 20% onsite.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug testand background check arerequired.

Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.

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Brakebush Brothers, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in our hiring, training, or promotion policies. We will not discriminate against job applicants or employees for reasons of race, religion, color, sex, handicap, age, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by law. If you need assistance with the application process, please call [phone] or visit our contact us page for more ways to reach us.