Production Control Planner

Job Description:

  I.  POSITION SUMMARY

Develop a daily production schedule for selected part numbers in order to insure adequate resources to meet production, inventory, and customer requirements.  May release orders for raw material to their respective vendors to meet production schedule.

II.  NATURE & SCOPE

Champion Laboratories, Inc. is a full-line filter manufacturer with a facility located in Albion IL. 

This position reports directly to the Materials Manager of their facility in Illinois.  This position is responsible for coordinating department efforts to ensure that parts are produced on schedule to be used in finished product and/or that finished products are produced so that customer ship dates are met.  This process requires the planner to have knowledge of filter components and the assembly line capabilities.

The incumbent is responsible for using the MRP system to generate shop orders for the work centers assigned.  All associated documents (i.e. labels, etc.) along with the shop orders are to be released daily to the manufacturing floor.

The Production Control Planner is to communicate shortages of materials and capacity to the appropriate personnel daily.  The shortages impacting the release of a shop order that may affect our ability to meet a customer demand are communicated during a daily production meeting and  to the Materials Manager. 

The Production Control Planner communicates priorities to each supervisor in a daily production meeting.  The incumbent may release materials from vendors to meet the production schedule and to maintain desired stocking levels.  In the case of an unforeseen demand, the incumbent may expedite the appropriate material to ensure on-time delivery to the customer.  They may also communicate shortages to the Tactical Purchasing Agents in the event of purchased material shortages.  This communication is essential to maintain good customer service and appropriate inventory levels.

The major challenge of this position is managing hundreds of part numbers on a daily basis to meet customer ship dates and to maintain appropriate inventory levels.  Coordinating the daily schedules and communicating the priorities throughout the plant is a very important part to maintaining the plant objectives as defined by our IATF process.

 III.  PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Coordinating department efforts to ensure scheduled ship dates are met and desired inventory levels are maintained.

Generating shop orders and all other necessary materials for all assigned work centers.

Communicating priorities to each Supervisor, Tactical Purchasing Agent, and the Plant Manager on a daily basis.

Reporting any inventory discrepancies to the inventory specialists for root cause analysis of the problem so they can initiate corrective actions as necessary.

Support all company policies, procedures, and programs related to personnel, quality, safety, and environmental issues.

Review and investigate the daily Projected Fill Rate report to establish the root cause and implement corrective actions as necessary.

Communicate availability dates of products to Customer Service.

May Create purchase orders daily to ensure the production schedules will be met and to maintain stocking levels.

May be responsible for managing the use up inventory during changes being implemented by Product Teams.

May manage and update production batch quantities and all appropriate coding associated with buffer management.

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