Outstanding opportunity for an experienced production planner & scheduler to join our growing company in our new Corporate Headquarters and Production Facility in Germantown Wisconsin. You’ll play a key role in coordinating all aspects of materials, labor, and equipment utilization to optimize our capacity and meet our engineer to order delivery commitments. You’ll help establish a Master Production Schedule and work with key stake holders to ensure ERP accuracy & maximize our SQDC goals. Over the last 50 years our family-owned business has established a reputation around the world for excellence in technology, reliability, and support. Our employees enjoy a friendly work environment, generous profit-sharing programs, opportunities for growth, and stability in serving resilient market segments. Bring your skills & positive attitude to Enercon and make the most of your next career move. Get more information below.
Responsibilities:
- Establish the production schedule and rough-cut capacity plan for assigned product areas and manufacturing departments by balancing customer order demand, inventory replenishment demand, production capacity, resource, and material constraints, while achieving >90% on time delivery.
- Rigorously evaluate and manage ERP master data for consistency and accuracy to ensure highly accurate real-time status of customer orders, capacity utilization, inventory levels, material delivery or shortages, and to maximize the opportunity manage by exception, and support long term requirements planning.
- Establish and maintain proper inventory levels and replenishment strategies or tactics to maintain or improve lead times, both to customer and internal departments.
- Effectively collaborate with Purchasing to ensure timely delivery of sourced or sub-contracted materials or services supporting the production schedule.
- Coordinate with Receiving, Inventory, Kitting, and Material Handling staff to ensure effective and timely tracking and delivering of materials with Enercon manufacturing facilities.
- Ensure inventory transactions are performed correctly by all staff. Communicate or escalate issues, as necessary.
- Effectively collaborate with Production Supervisors in support of production schedule attainment and maintain communication with Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing leadership on order completion dates. Ensuring accuracy and consistency of ERP system data, status notes, and verbal/email communication.
- Communicate with company personnel as required to keep them informed of delivery schedules, material lead-times for the manufacture of customer orders, or the status of Engineering Changes, or development and introduction of New Products. Including daily attendance at manufacturing department meetings, twice weekly Order Status meetings, and monthly S&OP meetings.
- Update published lead times for assigned product lines at least monthly, or as directed by the Production Planning and Scheduling Supervisor.
- Establish a level loaded schedule for assigned manufacturing departments in alignment with master production schedule following the priorities of customer orders, safety stock, and forecasted.
- Perform frequent review of manufacturing master data, department work cues, material shortage reports, and make corrections to ensure adherence to established or revised production priorities. Ensure materials are planned or procured correctly and are on time, or expedited to ensure production occurs to the master production schedule. Quickly, clearly, and effectively escalate exceptions to the appropriate person or persons and follow through diligently to recover, maintain, or improve the production output.
- Process sub-contract receipts, RMA’s, DMR’s, and rework jobs as required to ensure timely status reporting and resolution of issues.
