Production Planner

Rogers Corporation

Summary:

This role is responsible for coordinating and expediting the flow of work and materials within or between departments according to daily and weekly production schedules to meet customer requirements while minimizing impact to manufacturing/operations, and managing distribution costs and inventory investment.

Essential Functions:

• Create and maintain schedules to successfully meet shipping dates according to forecasts and orders while maximizing efficiencies. Create and/or recommend revisions to production schedules as needed.
• Manage Raw Material planning, aligning inventory spend with MRP and safety stock requirements.
• Create and release of work orders to ensure compliance with the planned schedule in support of the forecast and inventory levels while optimizing available capacity.
• Prepare scheduling reports, deliver performance metrics, and supply chain analysis as required.
• Escalate potential issues that may impact production scheduling (i.e. raw material/equipment issues).
• Communicate with internal customers as to the status of open orders/jobs and exceptions impacting on-time delivery.
• Support and maintain master data for planning parameters (stocking policies, lead time, safety stocks, etc.).
• Collaborate closely with Operations on Key Initiatives and optimized planning sequencing.
• Work with Product Line management to ensure business priorities are in line with planned execution.
• Participate, support, and lead improvement projects and special initiatives required by the planning organization.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Operations management, Business, Data Science, or related field. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 2+years of relevant manufacturing planning experience.
• Experience using production planning software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems - SAP S4 Hanna preferred.
• Experience in Microsoft Excel advanced functionality