Strategic Production Planner & Scheduler

Johnson Johnson; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson in Jacksonville, FL is seeking a Staff Production Planning Specialist to coordinate scheduling and material planning to ensure on-time delivery of finished goods. This on-site role requires coordinating with plant production and suppliers, managing master data, and monitoring capacity against launches and claims.

Responsibilities include preparing schedules, vendor orders, and production reports, while communicating supply projections to stakeholders and guiding junior staff as

Responsibilities

• Prepares schedules and ensures timely completion of production orders. Ensures delivery, assembly, and distribution of supplies or parts to expedite flow of materials and meet production schedules.
• Prepares orders to vendors as directed for raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, services, supplies, finished goods and related material needed for production.
• Analyses product demand, sales patterns/forecasts, production specifications, and capacity data. Integrates methods based on analyses of trends and the competitive landscape to continually improve the organization's production strategy.
• Checks scheduled delivery dates of raw materials and makes initial contact with suppliers on late deliveries.
• Provides watch outs that could impact the production plans due to constraints and align capacity usage and ramp up as needed.
• Inventories goods received and monitors planning modules or production planning systems and related information to identify discrepancies in components and/or production orders.
• Manages tools to ensure Operations team has the proper visibility regarding WIP priorities. Includes monitoring of production orders from start to ensure the on-time delivery of products and explains any deviations from commitments.
• Leads effective communication with the required cross functional teams to ensure optimal performance and results.
• Appropriately communicates supply projections to stakeholders outside the site.
• As needed, may provide indirect supervision to non-exempt or wage personnel. Coaches more junior colleagues in techniques, processes and responsibilities.
• Ensures resources required for production are available and provides guidance on the need of overtime to support customer requirements attainment. Reviews capacity loads and identifies manufacturing constraints. Monitors and anticipates production issues due to capacity and new product launches, and may serve as back up of the capacity planning tasks.
• Prepares production reports. Analyzes month end activity to determine the need for supply forecast modification. Recommends revisions. Participates in new product launch meetings and assist in developing new product forecasts and production schedules as needed.
• Ensures systems data integrity and accuracy of signals.
• Performs and analyzes inventory reports, determines production quantities, customer service recovery analysis, manages local events, and short and long-term planning considering demand.
• Leads escalations and notifies personnel/management as appropriate.

Job description

Johnson & Johnson in Jacksonville, FL is seeking a Staff Production Planning Specialist to coordinate scheduling and material planning to ensure on-time delivery of finished goods. This on-site role requires coordinating with plant production and suppliers, managing master data, and monitoring capacity against launches and claims.

Responsibilities include preparing schedules, vendor orders, and production reports, while communicating supply projections to stakeholders and guiding junior staff as