Production Planner

WORK SHIFT: 1st Shift (9/80A)

Pay Range: $48 - $55 /hr . The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA.
• 401(k).
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Job Description:

• Client is looking for a Production Planner III to support our production planning department. You ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside design engineers, technicians, quality. This position is on-site at Oxnard location.
• Plans sequence of fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations relating to specific portions of the product for guidance of production workers. Plans detail operations from blueprints, engineering orders, change notices, and other engineering releases. Determines the need for tooling and makes recommendations for the design and planning of required tools. Prepares shop manufacturing orders for materials and product processing and coordinates with schedulers to ensure that items are being processed according to specifications and time requirements. Maintains progress reports, schedules, and other related records

Responsibilities:

• Maintains schedules for material requirements and availability for the manufacture of industrial and commercial products to support production control by optimizing inventory storage systems.
• Optimize inventory usage to project requirements.
• Interface with Production, Quality Control, Purchasing, Production Control and other related departments to resolve problems related to receipt and distribution of material.
• Make decisions on part categorization of makes and buys.
• Research kit shortages, expedite missing kits, and be meticulous in kit integration.
• Understand, research, and reconcile traceability.
• Ensure inventory processes comply with quality standards and procedures.
• Participate in 5S and other continuous improvement practices.
• Manage projects using relevant software tools and track to meet completion dates.
• Support the organization s metric goals and objectives.
• Analyze the flow of material to reduce time of request to delivery.
• Expedite flow of materials, parts, and assemblies within or between departments in accordance with production and shipping schedules.
• Assists in determining possible and actual shortages may initiate action to correct these deficiencies. Uses knowledge of production, procurement, and engineering departments to alert proper authorities regarding potential problems and appropriate remedial action.

Basic Qualifications for Production Planner III:

• High School diploma or equivalent and 4 years additional education and/or related experience.
• Experience with production planning and/or inventory operations within an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (Deltek Costpoint) system and Microsoft applications.
• Outstanding understanding of production planning and material scheduling
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Proven record as a production planner

Preferred Qualifications for Production Planner:

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Prefer experience with Production Planning & Kiting
• Liaising between manufacturing, engineering, quality & Inventory
• Excellent verbal and written communication ability
• Deltek Costpoint ERP system.