Production Planner- On site

What You Will Do

• The Planning & Supply Chain Manager is fully briefed on the current schedule attainment in the Assembly department.
• Supports purchasing as to stock requirements for the completion of all Assembly department orders.
• Provides manufacturing lead times to customer service.
• Manages and monitor Customer supplied material relating to production plan.
• Ensures Assembly department meets the production deadlines to ensure on time customer delivery.
• Back up the Jr Production Planner and Tier 2 Customer Service for vacation and absence.
• Provide assembly schedules to manufacturing associates and management.
• Plan production through the use of material planning module within Southmedic’s ERP system.
• Use sales reports to project planned production requirements.
• Review inventory levels in all warehouses and plan production to replenish stock.
• Provide timelines that will address all back-order situations.
• Shall ensure any challenges in manufacturing are brought up in the daily morning manufacturing meeting and pushes for solutions to ensure solutions are implemented in a timely manner.
• Push cost saving initiatives for manufacturing that align with corporate focus/direction.
• Shall ensure that all business is performed with an attention to detail and are done in accordance with the Southmedic Quality System, mission and values.
• Provide schedule attainment metrics to manufacturing management.
• To administrate annual cycle count for contract customers and where required adjustments to inventory are made based on sound investigation of variance.

What We Need