Consolidated Metals Inc is hiring: Production Planner in Elkhart

Description:

Consolidated Metals is a leading manufacturer of steel tubing products. Join our growing, entrepreneurial company as a Production Planner. The Production Planner is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of the production process.

Key Tasks:

Planning and Scheduling Plant:

- Create, schedule and monitor work orders to meet customer requirements.

- Create production schedule to meet customer demand while optimizing resources

- Analyze demand forecasts (work orders) and historical data to anticipate future production needs and adjust plans accordingly. Create and monitor rolling schedules for mills. Advise lead times for all.

- Create, maintain, monitor all production related targets for assigned location, including mill speeds or pieces per hour capabilities, schedules, set-up times, down times, scrap or any other factor affecting production.

- Analyze actual production against targets, implement corrective actions or make necessary adjustments to schedule assumptions.

- Monitor capacity – work with manager to create plan for bottlenecks or periods of low demand. Communicate open capacity opportunities and filled capacity concerns.

- Finalize work orders – document any performance variance to plan (pieces per hour or scrap) – use info to update data tracking. Ensure accurate costing.

- Proactively monitor ship dates to customers – ensure OTD or advise and plan.

- Proactively monitor incoming materials to ensure timely application to work order – advise concerns.

- Share production plan and communicate issues, changes and solutions to Customer Service and Sales leaders.

- Maintain stocking programs as assigned.

- Lean:

- Track daily, weekly or monthly Lean metrics

- Work with internal and external teams to improve lead time and drive cost and process improvements.

- Participate in lean activities to improve overall output, quality or other.

- Logistics:

- Create, schedule and monitor freight orders to meet customer requirements.

- Timely submission of all required documents for invoicing.

- Other Operational Support (Personnel/Inventory/Supplies):

- Work with plant to ensure safe, quality, efficient, cost-effective, on-time delivery of tube, based on customer specifications.

- Work with plant to improve quality reduce scrap and reduce excess/aged inventory.

- Review customer/schedule needs against resources and make recommendations for efficient utilization of people and machines, including staffing levels and OT.

Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in production planning & scheduling

Experience and knowledge in Steel – preferably steel tube manufacturing and fabrication

Good math and computer skills.

Lean experience is highly preferred

Desired skills, traits and values:

Honest, safety minded and customer focused

Attention to detail

Proactive, flexible, collaborative, reliable, relentless

Professional, courteous, communicative

Desire to improve processes

Benefits

401k with match

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