What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planner position at AllTek Staffing?
AllTek Staffing has partnered with a local manufacturer who specializes in making actuators for heavy industrial and nuclear applications. Our client is currently looking to add a Production Planner to their project management team. This company has been in the actuator game for a long time and has a great history of success in the Pittsburgh market.
Job Details:
This is a 6-month contract to hire role
Paid Weekly, 401k potential after 90 days, payroll deduction healthcare options.
Duties / Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and communicate with the cross-functional teams to meet safety, quality, and on-time delivery targets
- Align with Purchasing to track material status and on-time delivery in preparation for production
- Balance work center loading, material availability and capacity plan
- Ensure routing accuracy prior to release to manufacture or subcontract
- Update and maintain planning parameters and forecasts for products within your assigned value stream
- Adjust production plan as necessary, considering shop loading, material availability, machinery, capacity constraints
- Release planned manufacturing orders to the shop floor and subcontract manufacturers on time and according to master schedule
- Process, monitor and expedite purchase orders for subcontract manufacturers
- Walk shop floor daily to monitor material movement as it progresses through the production cycle, removing obstacles, conflicts, bottlenecks, and opportunities for delay
- Expedite delays with other departments – Sales, Engineering, Customer Operations, Production and Quality Assurance – and subcontract manufacturers, as required
- Develop methods to improve our planning strategies and tactics to further gain efficiencies in our processes, reduce lead time and eliminate non-value-added activities
- Complete additional related duties as assigned
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum of 5 years Planning, Materials Management or Supply Chain experience required
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