Strategic Production Planner - Cosmetics, Food & Pharma

Sensient Technologies; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sensient Technologies seeks a Production Planner to oversee planning and scheduling for Cosmetics, Food and Pharma groups at St. Louis, MO and Kingston, ON facilities. Individual contributor with autonomy, focusing on execution and administrative duties to ensure timely production meeting customer specs.

The role covers raw material availability, supply and demand data accuracy in JDE, and collaboration with production teams. Visa sponsorship not provided; US work authorization required.

Qualifications

• , Experience in purchasing, inventory management, supply chain, or related operational roles.
• - Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• - Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with suppliers and internal teams.
• - Strong attention to detail with experience maintaining accurate records and documentation.
• - Analytical problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate issues and identify process improvements.
• - Experience working with production planning, material planning, or enterprise resource planning systems is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Order raw materials to establish an efficient manufacturing schedule while considering customer delivery, requirements, manpower, machine capability, tooling, materials purchased and quality requirements.
• Sets-up MRP parameters according to life cycle product and manages MRP parameter maintenance on intermediates and finished products. Review, on a daily basis, JD Edwards (JDE) generated MRP messages for production and procurement.
• Set weekly production schedule and meet with Production Supervisors daily to monitor progress.
• Follow-up and expedite deliveries of open work orders. Inform the Director, Operations and Supply Chain, Customer Service Representatives, and Sales Director of any and all changes in lead time policies.
• Responsible for accuracy of supply and demand data in JDE to provide excellent customer service information.
• Meet regularly with production supervisors to discuss issues affecting schedule feasibility; overtime planning.

Skills

Purchasing

Inventory management

Supply chain

Organizational skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Analytical problem-solving

ERP systems

Production planning

Material planning

Tools

JD Edwards (JDE)

Job description

Sensient Technologies seeks a Production Planner to oversee planning and scheduling for Cosmetics, Food and Pharma groups at St. Louis, MO and Kingston, ON facilities. Individual contributor with autonomy, focusing on execution and administrative duties to ensure timely production meeting customer specs.

The role covers raw material availability, supply and demand data accuracy in JDE, and collaboration with production teams. Visa sponsorship not provided; US work authorization required.