What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planner position at Healthcare AZ LLC?
Healthcare Arizona, a premier mattress manufacturing arm of the MLILY company, is building a brand new 650,000sq feet manufacturing plant in Goodyear, Arizona. We manufacture advanced memory foam mattresses that help you sleep cooler and more comfortably through the night so that you wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on whatever the day throws at you.
Job Summary:
The Planner coordinates and expedites the flow of work and materials within and between departments according to the production schedule. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; and compiling reports on progress of work, inventory levels, costs, and production problems.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- None.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all production planning and control issues for assigned production line(s).
- Plans, schedules, coordinates, and/or monitor the final approval of products through the complete production cycle.
- Works from engineering plans and production specifications to establish production schedules, labor loading, and capacity requirements.
- Coordinates production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules.
- Handles all work order creation, releases, completion, and closing.
- Trouble-shoot all production control problems and drive them to correct closure.
- Monitors all process shortages and ensures resolution is attained.
- Builds positive relationships with manufacturing and materials in a quick-turn, engineer-to-order environment.
- Works closely with engineering, quality, purchasing, and other operations staff to ensure functional specs are met, parts are available as needed, and quality is maintained.
- May interface with customers to schedule deliveries or discuss issues.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Mandarin/English Bilingual Highly Preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; engineering BOM reading skills.
- Strong organization skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with internal customers/suppliers.
- Strong PC skills to include Microsoft Office software suites.
- Meeting management skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Knowledge of MRP/ERP applications
- SAP EXPERIENCE Highly preferred
Education and Experience:
- Associates/BA/BS degree in business administration, operations management, supply chain or equivalent experience preferred.
- CPIM/CIRM certification a plus
- Proficiency in using office software such as EXCEL and PPT.
- Planning experience with working knowledge of quick-turn, low volume, engineer-to-order production environment.
- Bilingual in English/Mandarin highly preferred.
Physical Requirements:
- Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and make fine discriminations in sound.
- The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, thoroughness of work.
- The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (such as in typical office or administrative work).
Schedule:
- Day Shift (8am-5:00pm)
- Monday – Friday
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Healthcare Glendale is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please contact Human Resources at (602) 455-1830.
Hiring is contingent upon the successful completion of our background and drug screening process. Healthcare Glendale is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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