1996 Junior Planner

Job Summary:

The Junior Planner together with operations is responsible for the on-time delivery of parts and schedule adherence, from start until shipment, while providing transparent communication between program management and operations.

Duties/Responsibilities:

·       Production Plan

·        Responsible for production plan for the customer programs under her/his responsibility, including planning, monitoring, and driving on-time delivery to the customer

·        Support master planning to provide inputs for the production plan, review priorities and solve conflicts

·        Communicate the production plan to the shop floor

·        Review planning in the daily planning meetings with cross department teams

·        Measure planning execution and act based on these results and KPIs 

·        Provide delivery planning to key account managers

·        Provide planning for spare parts

·        Propose action plans to solve bottlenecks

·       Analyses Requirements

·        Analyses the requirements for availability of components and required capacity to achieve on-time delivery to the customer

·        Immediately escalate capacity issues to operations and master planning

·       Follow-up Slow moving and rework processes

·        Actively involved in slow moving and rework processes to reduce WIP and old stock

·        Inform Quality department of slow moving items

·        Follow-up and escalate with MRB to guarantee timely communications to the customer and follow-up with PM to timely receive dispositions;

·       ERP data accuracy

·        Update master planner data such as lead times, safety stocks, order quantities, etc., to improve accuracy of the production plan

·       External and Internal Interactions

·        Work with key account manager and customer to improve delivery for customer needs

·        Provide recovery plan for late work orders to the customer

·        Provide long term delivery/recovery plan to key account manager

·        Additional job duties as assigned.

Performance Indicators:

·       On-time delivery

·       Working Capital

·       Schedule adherence

Required Skills/Abilities:

·       Proficient computer skills with MS Office

·       Good communication skills (written, verbal and presentation)

·       High level of assertively

·       Strong analytical and creative thinking skills

·       Flexible, well organized and efficient

·       Team player

·       Results oriented

·       Takes initiate and displays a pro-active attitude

·       Open to travel (limited)

Education and Experience:

·       Bachelor’s in Supply Chain/Business or equivalent

• 1+ yrs. experience in buyer/planner/supply chain/procurement

·       Experience in production planning is a plus

·       Experience in an ERP system is a plus