Production Planning Supervisor - Conover, NC OR Bruce, MS (onsite)
Haworth
- Statesville, NC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- 401K with company match
- 144 hours Paid Time Off Accrual by pay period
- Bonus opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement
- Parental Leave
- Oversees daily activity of assigned staff to ensure planning function is delivered in effective and timely manner to support business requirements and industry standards.
- Plans and schedules workflow for each department and operations according to pre-established manufacturing sequences and lead times to produce executable schedule, utilizing Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system.
- Utilizes advanced planning tools to model, simulate, and release optimized plans to organization to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Manages and applies multiple scheduling calendars for resource availability. Manages system data set-ups to support management of machine time, labor, and labor pools for capacity management of finite and infinite resources.
- Applies intermediate and advanced methods and planning models (i.e., Make To Order [MTO] and Configure To Order [CTO]) in fully integrated system environment to ensure effective delivery to customer.
- Supervises team of planning professionals to lead planning activities for plant as well as other manufacturing site(s).
- Ensures appropriate staffing levels for assigned department. Assists with interviews and selection of candidates; conducts training for assigned staff on industry-specific and department processes to keep department staffed at appropriate level.
- Provides leadership in system enhancement to improve applications that support planning process.
- Monitors performance to plan and takes proactive action to solve problems and mitigate risk in meeting plan.
- Coordinates transportation between plants, transit to customers, receiving, and work centers to meet business needs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Management or Logistics or similar.
- Seven years experience in production planning and control, production modeling, or inventory and warehouse management.
- Including one year leadership/supervisory experience.
- Experience with master scheduling and level load planning.
- Experience in electronics, automotive, or furniture manufacturing environment.
- SAP Experience.
- LEAN Knowledge
- Demonstrated knowledge and practical application of ERP system(s).
- Understanding of JIT concepts, theory of constraints and lean philosophy.
- Strong project management and relationship building skills.
- Ability to anticipate and solve problems, develop and execute objectives for team and affect business goals.
- Ability to conduct process reviews of the current and future sate to remove waste from processes and apply value-added engineering concepts.