Production Planner II: Master Scheduling & WIP Control

Mitsubishi Power Americas; Pooler (GA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Career development programs

Holiday/special leave

Job summary

Mitsubishi Power Americas is seeking a Production Planner II for our Savannah Machinery Works location. You will coordinate production schedules and materials to ensure on-time project completion based on contractual requirements and lead times.

This role requires strong scheduling, inventory management, and MS Office skills, plus experience with MRP/ERP and BOM systems to optimize shop floor operations and deliveries.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required, plus 7+ years of related experience.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating instructions, maintenance manuals, and procedures.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including preparing routine reports and communicating with employees and customers.
• Strong basic math skills, including working with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to follow written, verbal, and diagram-based instructions and solve routine operational problems.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, and Excel) and experienced with MRP, ERP, and BOM systems.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates core competencies: Action oriented, change champion, customer-focused, developing self & others, and ownership.
• Read production schedule, customer order, work order, shipping order, or requisition to determine items to be moved, gathered, or distributed.
• Create work orders and schedule the releases of work orders to designated work centers.
• Perform scheduling of released orders in the shop floor control system, manage work-in-process (WIP) and assist with physical movement of product throughout the entire manufacturing process.
• Sort and control materials or items on racks, shelves, or in bins according to predetermined shop floor priorities.
• Coordinate with purchasing and inventory control the expediting of late arriving purchased material that can affect scheduled product completion and subsequent deliveries.
• Confer with production management to resolve problems affecting production schedules.
• Communicate program priorities for out-sourced production work.
• Coordinate the final shipment of product with supervisors, project managers and shipping/receiving personnel.
• Advises the Production Control Supervisor and Manufacturing Manager of anticipated problems, material shortages, engineering changes and/or equipment failures or major non-conformance of in-process product.
• Check for planning errors during production and recommend corrective action.
• Prepare purchase orders to maintain inventories of raw materials and finished products.
• Evaluates written data, such as job orders, product specifications and operations sheets, parts and materials inventory lists, and machine and worker production rates, to establish efficient allocation and scheduling of parts, materials, machines, and sequences of operation and workflow.
• Maintain inventory records.
• Perform other such duties as may be required.

Skills

Production scheduling

MRP/ERP

MS Office

Inventory control

Communication

Schedule reading

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

MRP systems

ERP systems

BOM systems

Job description

Mitsubishi Power Americas is seeking a Production Planner II for our Savannah Machinery Works location. You will coordinate production schedules and materials to ensure on-time project completion based on contractual requirements and lead times.

This role requires strong scheduling, inventory management, and MS Office skills, plus experience with MRP/ERP and BOM systems to optimize shop floor operations and deliveries.