Senior Production Planner

FALL CREEK FARM & NURSERY; Carol Stream (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

FALL CREEK FARM & NURSERY in Carol Stream, IL, seeks a seasoned production planner to coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials to meet customer requirements while minimizing costs and inventory investments.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 5+ years of planning or logistics experience, plus familiarity with ERP and production planning software to optimize schedules and capacity.

Qualifications

• Meeting shipping dates through forecasted demand and orders.
• Experience using production planning software and ERP systems.
• Ability to manage capacity and inventory with data quality.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain schedules to meet shipping dates according to forecasts and orders while maximizing operational efficiencies.
• Utilize release and create work orders to ensure compliance with the planned demand to support sales and inventory levels while utilizing available capacity.
• Create and/or recommend revisions to production schedules as needed.
• Prepare, report and present on scheduling reports, delivery performance metrics, and supply chain analytics as required.
• Provide leadership visibility over potential issues that may impact production scheduling and communicate with internal customers about supply constraints.
• Support and maintain a high quality of data for planning parameters (stocking policies, lead time, safety stocks, etc.).
• Participate, support and lead improvement projects and special initiatives required by the planning organization.
• Own documentation on production scheduling site specific rules and regulations by work center including site constraints.
• Support with training and onboarding of new staff.
• Back up support to other team members at the site or for similar product lines in the network.
• Capable of supporting the Integrated Business Process for short term if needed and required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Scheduling

Production planning

Logistics

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

This role is responsible for coordina ti ng and expedi ti ng the fl ow of work and materials within or between departments according to daily and weekly produc ti on schedules to meet customer requirements while minimizing manufacturing, distribu ti on costs, and inventory investment.

Essential Functions:

• Create and maintain schedules to successfully meet shipping dates according to forecasts and orders while maximizing operational efficiencies.
• Utilize release and create work orders to ensure compliance with the planned demand to support sales and inventory levels while utilizing available capacity.
• Create and/or recommend revisions to production schedules as needed.
• Prepare, report and present on scheduling reports, delivery performance metrics, and supply chain analytics as required.
• Provide leadership visibility over potential issues that may impact production scheduling (i.e. raw material/equipment issues/staffing). Communicate with internal customers as to the status of supply constraints impacting lead time commits and open orders/jobs and exceptions impacting on-time delivery.
• Support and maintain a high quality of data for planning parameters (stocking policies, lead time, safety stocks, etc.).
• Participate, support and lead improvement projects and special initiatives required by the planning organization.
• Own documentation on production scheduling site specific rules and regulations by work center including full understanding of site constraints (capacity, labor, logistics, material flow, etc.).
• Support with training and onboarding of new staff.
• Back up support to other team members at the site or for similar product lines in the network.
• Capable of supporting the Integrated Business Process for short term if needed and required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business or related field. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years of relevant planning and/or logistics experience.
• Experience using production planning software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.