Senior Production Planner
Dover Corporation
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead assigned value stream by driving cross functional solutions to meet revenue goals, constraint, and material shortage resolution.
- Manage 1-3 direct reports by providing day to day direction, coaching, mentoring and performance reviews.
- Assume a leadership role for assigned value streams including backorder reduction and coordinating activities with other cross functional teams.
- Plan and fully understand the monthly (Production Plan) for specific assigned value streams.
- Lead and/or participates in cross-functional project teams related to planning and purchasing initiatives and continuous improvement programs.
- Releases and manages production work orders in accordance with MRP, Kanban signals, production plan goals and related planning data.
- Manage, monitor, and update Oracle MRP Parameters for assigned value streams and production cells.
- Works closely with manufacturing and procurement to prioritize, expedite and de-expedite work orders based on material availability, department resources, changing requirements and customer service requirements.
- Participates in the new product development process for key strategic products and manages all aspects of supply chain planning at the new product team level.
- Have strong working knowledge and apply of all aspects of planning/pull systems and MRP concepts such as time fences, demand input, consumption rules, AMU, and projected balance calculations and to be able to troubleshoot problem situations in these areas.
- Manage and maintain inventory levels to the company goals at the sub-assembly, WIP and finished good levels.
- Analyzes production plans, plant capacity and supplier capacity data to determine trends, resource requirements and constraints.
- Monitor, analyze and be able to derive key planning parameters such as safety stocks, buffer stocks and lot sizes.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 8+ years of direct supply chain experience and a bachelor's degree in business, supply chain or related field.
- 5+ years managing 1-3+ direct reports in a manufacturing and/or operations environment.
- Excellent knowledge of Production Planning and Quality Control Principles.
- Advanced MS Office skills, understanding of vlookup, Pivot tables, macro recordings, data tables, charting, data sorting segregation and formula auditing.
- Experience with lean concepts/tools such as VSM, Kanban and Kaizen, PFEP, A3, 5 why.
- Previous Experience in Oracle or SAP MRP II environment.
- Strong analytical and mathematical skills.
- Strong knowledge of MRP, CRP and MPS.
- Experience with lean concepts/tools such as VSM, Kanban and Kaizen, PFEP, A3, 5 why.
- Understanding of production flow principles and processes.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively work with many levels and types of people.
- Effective written, oral and presentation skills(communication).
- Strong Project Management Skills.
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