Production Planner: SAP‑Driven Master Scheduler

MSA Safety Inc.; Jacksonville, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MSA Safety Inc. in North Carolina seeks a Production Planner to drive material planning and scheduling across multiple lines. You will convert ERP signals into an actionable production plan, coordinate with NPD teams, maintain SAP master data, and ensure on-time delivery.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years planning experience, a Bachelor’s in a related field, and experience with SAP, Power BI, and BW. You will partner across functions to improve processes, manage capacity, and support continuous

Qualifications

• Proven ability to model disciplined execution following detailed standard work, maintaining a high level of attention to detail, driving efficiency, productivity and personal accountability.
• Demonstrates an innovative and technological mindset to ensure master data integrity and accuracy, seek out latest industry trends, road-map future technology and champion early adoption.
• Sound ability to make data driven and analytical decisions by identifying trends and opportunities, making problems visible, and utilizing financial acumen to justify investments and influence decisions.
• Proven ability in challenging the status quo to drive continuous improvement promoting the use of root cause problem solving, valuing new ideas, inspiring others, and demonstrating effective use of change management principles.
• Proven success in building partnerships, influencing others, and communicating effectively both in verbal and written form, seeking diverse perspectives, and strong emotional intelligence to enable cross functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Use ERP generated reports or planned orders to convert to production plan, acknowledging incoming supply of materials, inventory availability, resource constraints, and internal or external customers' needs.
• Maintain production orders to provide accurate MRP signals.
• Utilize demand signals from SAP to understand workload per responsible production line and aid the capacity planning process.
• Prioritize production lines by utilizing SAP exception messaging to expedite, de-expedite, reschedule and re-plan assigned work centers based on internal and external customers' dynamically changing needs.
• Work closely with the New Product Development project teams as it relates to master data set up, workload planning, driving demand signals in SAP, and scheduling beta and stock builds to ensure production readiness.
• Ensure execution of production plan through verbal and electronic communication of production schedule to the assigned production supervisor and group leader.
• Communicate any production schedule changes to the product line manager and customer service when necessary.
• Maintain SAP master data including production lead time, MRP settings, MRP relevant material master views, total replenish lead time, repetitive scheduling set up and maintenance.
• Utilize the internal continuousimprovement operating system to correctly identify root causes of problems and drive corrective action results.

Skills

Data-driven decisions

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Emotional intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or Logistics related fields

APICS CPIM accreditation

Tools

SAP

Power BI

BW

Job description

MSA Safety Inc. in North Carolina seeks a Production Planner to drive material planning and scheduling across multiple lines. You will convert ERP signals into an actionable production plan, coordinate with NPD teams, maintain SAP master data, and ensure on-time delivery.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years planning experience, a Bachelor’s in a related field, and experience with SAP, Power BI, and BW. You will partner across functions to improve processes, manage capacity, and support continuous