Strategic Production Planner | OTIF & Scheduling Excellence

Jobot; Springfield (NJ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Production Planner to join their manufacturing team in a role focusing on production scheduling, coordination with operations, and ensuring commitments are met with OTIF performance. The position emphasizes proactive risk management, outsourcing vs insourcing decisions, and driving cost improvement projects for margins on hardware deliverables.

The role requires producing execution schedules and maintaining accurate ERP data, while collaborating with engineering and leadership

Responsibilities

• Monthly execution of customer commitments
• 100% OTIF to all customer commitments
• Coordinate with operations to move parts to schedule
• Communicate execution risks and opportunities to Leadership
• Mitigate risks at start of execution (planning orders, yield factors, etc)
• Document lessons learned for future orders
• Coordinate resources to ensure information flows to teams
• Drive rapid resolution of ECOs, EOs and MRBs for development parts
• Plan outsourcing vs insourcing to reduce lead time and risk
• Support cost improvement projects to hit gross margin targets
• Produce hardware execution schedules for management or customers
• Maintain ERP data: commit dates, orders, quantities

Job description

Jobot is seeking a Production Planner to join their manufacturing team in a role focusing on production scheduling, coordination with operations, and ensuring commitments are met with OTIF performance. The position emphasizes proactive risk management, outsourcing vs insourcing decisions, and driving cost improvement projects for margins on hardware deliverables.

The role requires producing execution schedules and maintaining accurate ERP data, while collaborating with engineering and leadership