Production Planning Assistant II

BlueScope; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Paid time off

Retirement

Job summary

BlueScope CPNA is seeking a Production Planner to create production schedules, balance workloads, and coordinate with manufacturing, customer service, and procurement to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders.

Responsibilities include maintaining schedules, coordinating with procurement and supply chain, managing coil inventory, and using SAP to optimize throughput. A bachelor’s degree or 3+ years in production planning is required, with strong English communication and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years of relevant experience in production planning in high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience communicating across departments and driving production challenges.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate production planning to meet site capacity and issue run lists and amendments.
• Coordinate with procurement, customer service, supply chain to ensure material flow.
• Develop a production scheduling process to optimize machine capacity utilization.
• Forecast production schedules and adjust to changes (backlogs, unplanned events).
• Review shifts and allocate to production equipment based on throughput capacity.
• Work with management to plan workloads to meet output requirements.
• Schedule Delivery Assistance Requests (DARs) as needed to support orders.

Skills

Production planning

Communication across departments

English proficiency

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years experience

Tools

SAP

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.

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.

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

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.

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.