In Searcy, Arkansas, Sumida is seeking to hire a Production Planning Manager. This position oversees the scheduling and timeliness of the production process to ensure the company meets all deadlines. Their duties include managing material and equipment availability, scheduling production, and monitoring the production process for problems.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinates with Engineering to make changes to the BOM when necessary.
- Coordinates with manufacturing and Operations Management to provide shop floor control on making parts, analyzes, and controls production schedule.
- Coordinates with purchasing to procure goods/parts to determine appropriate time-phased plans and executes processes to ensure deliverables meet production schedule requirements.
- Creates reports and monitors program schedules to ensure orders are placed into production to meet needs.
- Works closely with inventory control to anticipate the order of raw materials; uses judgment to predict demand, acquire additional supplies as needed, and investigates inventory discrepancies.
- Advise product management of material availability status and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, and services are provided as needed.
- Assists Management in resolving problems concerning over shipments, shortages, and engineering changes (Searcy, Reynosa, and Sun)
- Serves as a primary point of contact for and liaison with sales, logistics, building, and manufacturing departments.
- Collaborates with departments to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to serve best client or customer needs, including the creation of weekly internal ship plan documents for Supervisors to follow.
- Maintains distribution schedule for the assigned facility; revises as needed and alerts appropriate staff of schedule changes or delays.
- Create a rolling 12-month production plan for assigned products weekly and monthly to support inventory goals and delivery objectives.
- Ensures proper contact with internal (DC) customers regarding releases and deliveries.
- Prepares production reports, back-order reports, capacity reports, and other reports as needed.
- Planned and scheduled production for the factory by reviewing and analyzing inventory levels, production plans, customer forecasts, and safety stock.
- Participates in and helps lead the facility’s physical inventory.
- Enter shippers, invoices, and releases from Danfoss into the appropriate programs.
- Maintain online customer schedule/ online and spreadsheet.
Qualification:
- Supply Chain Management Degree
- Super-user level of SAP (ERP – JD Edwards) skills
- Three to five years of broad manufacturing experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills;
- Demonstrated hands-on problem-solving and decision-making skills;
- Knowledge of LEAN principles and Six Sigma;
- Computer literate with strong analytical skills.
How to Apply:
Interested applicants can apply by sending their resume to james_swaim@us.sumida.com.