Production Planning Assistant II

ASC Profiles, LLC; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

BlueScope is seeking a Production Planner to optimize schedules across multiple manufacturing processes. You will balance workloads, coordinate with procurement, customer service, and operations, and ensure on-time delivery of customer orders.

This hands-on role requires strong collaboration with manufacturing teams and a focus on continual process improvement. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent production planning experience in high-volume manufacturing, with SAP ERP

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years of Production Planning experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Experience with SAP ERP system (strongly preferred).
• Experience in construction environment or ASC Profiles products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate production planning to meet site capacity and adapt schedules as needed.
• Manage communication between manufacturing, planning, supply chain, and customer service to maintain backlog and material flow.
• Develop a Production Scheduling process to maximize machine utilization.
• Coordinate with procurement, customer service, and operations to ensure timely order fulfilment.
• Prepare forecasts for production schedules and adjust to changes such as backlogs or urgent orders.
• Review shifts and allocate capacity to production equipment to meet scheduled orders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Communication skills

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Company Description

Coated Products North America (CPNA) is part of the BlueScope group of companies located in 12 countries and employs over 14,000 employees. As a leading international supplier of steel products and solutions, principally focused on the global building and construction industry, we believe that our people are our strength. Having a diverse and inclusive workplace enables us to improve our capability and ensure continued, sustainable success. We are a global leader in metal coating and painting products for building and construction industries, providing vital components for houses, buildings, structures, vehicles and more. We have built a solid foundation for growth with a diverse portfolio of businesses in some of the largest and fastest growing economies of the world. We are headquartered in Australia, with our people and operations spread across North America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and throughout Asia.

Role Overview

This position is responsible for creating production schedules that allow efficient time for orders to be produced, meeting all ship dates and maintaining work-load balance throughout all shifts. The Production Planner is accountable for managing the customer orders after they are received and processed by customer service. The prime focus of this role is to effectively allocate customer orders to a manufacturing process within the offered capability of the process to successfully achieve the on-time delivery of the customer order. This is accomplished through:

• Managing the workload of each manufacturing process within clearly agreed shift capabilities.
• Planning and scheduling the pre and post processing of materials to meet the above noted capabilities of each process line.
• Developing systems and processes for reliable and smooth service delivery in consultation with manufacturing manager, manufacturing leads and process line operators.
• High level interaction and collaboration between manufacturing, planning, customer service, and supply chain to ensure up and down stream needs are scheduled and followed through.

Duties

This is a hands‑on role with the Production Planner working actively with the manufacturing, customer service, and procurement teams to achieve outcomes detailed. Duties to include:

• Maintain accurate production planning to meet site capacity, including modifying and adapting production scheduling, issuing run lists, production related paperwork, and issuing order amendments to accommodate revisions, cancellations or priorities.
• Manage communication between manufacturing, planning, supply chain, and customer service to maintain backlog upstream and downstream material flow.
• Develop a Production Scheduling process so that the efficient utilizations of machine capacities are achieved.
• Work directly with the manufacturing and buyer/planner to achieve timely production for all customer orders.
• Prepare future forecasting for production schedules to optimize efficiency and throughput, and easily adjust to changes (backlogs, operational changes, unplanned events, etc.).
• Upon review of sales orders; establishes production schedules for multiple pieces of equipment related to the manufacturing process.
• Ensures proper daily and weekly allocation to production equipment based on throughput capacity for efficient utilization of equipment.
• Work with manufacturing manager and leads to plan workloads to satisfaction and requirements of the business’s output requirements.
• Coordinates with procurement, customer service, supply chain, and operations to ensure adjustments to coil purchasing and/or delivery are supported and communicated in a timely manner.
• Ensures that shift capacities are reviewed hourly for all manufacturing processes and actively closes as capacities are exceeded.
• Maintain daily and weekly productivity records and throughput capacity data.
• Ensure that service offer is published, up to date and understood.
• Daily communication with customer service team about orders and production schedules.
• Work with manufacturing manager and leads at start of each day to identify any process capabilities which could increase efficiencies.
• Schedule DAR’s (Delivery Assistance Requests) as need to support order fulfilments and maintain site DAR log.
• Review shifts at conclusion of the product rolling to ensure that all scheduled orders have been successfully rolled.
• Report any issues immediately to manufacturing manager and or manufacturing lead.
• Support operations team with review of production recording and allocation issues in SAP.
• Participate in stock takes and cycle counting as required.
• Responsible for coil inventory responsibilities during site bi‑annual inventory process Schedule, participate and maintain coil cycle count processing to ensure coil inventory accuracy throughout the year.
• Works with manufacturing, procurement, customer service teams to ensure that the need for overtime is reduced while meeting the agreed production times and dates for orders.
• Monitors costs within area of responsibility and developed plans in consultation with manufacturing manager to manage these costs.
• Key focus on process scrap, errors, overtime, manning utilization daily.
• Backs up the processing of Coil Claims within SAP and coordinate with vendor.

Education & Experience Qualifications

Minimum: Bachelor’s degree or at least 3 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of degree plus the 2 years of Production Planning experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment. Demonstrated experience communicating across departments and taking initiative to production challenges. Experience with ERP system (SAP strongly preferred)

Preferred: 5+ years of experience Production Planning in a high-volume manufacturing environment. Experience in construction environment Knowledge of ASC Profiles Products – Division Specific Experience in supply chain role Experience with Microsoft Office Suite

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to analyze and solve problems effectively
• Ability to effectively manage priorities and workflows
• Attendance – Adheres to start and finish times of shift (including meal and rest periods), can be depended on to regularly attend work
• Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Capability – Willingness to learn new tasks. Embrace change, is a quick learner.
• Customer Focus – Dedicated to meeting or exceeding internal and external customer requirements.
• Excellent organizational skills
• Functional/Technical Skills – Knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment
• Influencing – Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to inspire and guide (peers and cross functional teams) toward goal achievement; modifying style to accommodate tasks, situations and individuals involved.
• Initiative – looks for and suggests ideas for improvement and in involved in their development.
• Listening – Seeks, receives and understands communications i.e., practices attentive and active listening.
• Peer Relationships – Finds common grounds to solve problems, is a team player, able to gain peer support.
• Proficiency in the English language, with effective oral and written communication skills
• Follow BSL safety standards.
• Teamwork Cooperation – Aware of the effect of one’s behavior. Actively participates in teams affectively.

Compensation

Range: $82,176.00-$88,000.00

Benefits

• The benefits are just as rewarding as the work at BlueScope. To support our goal, we offer a total compensation plan and an outstanding benefits package that includes health insurance, life insurance, short and long-term disability, paid time off, and retirement.

EEO

• Employer/M/F/Disabled/Protected Veteran
• BlueScope is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status, as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

Additional Information The preceding job responsibilities and tasks were designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by associates in this job. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job duties and responsibilities required of associates assigned to this job. Associates may be required to perform other duties as assigned. Additional job competencies, individual goals, and performance measurements are set at the department level.