AddressMain Objective:
The Production Planner is to control the demand and capacity throughput for the company while ensuring that the customer's requirements are meet through superior customer service;
- Work with key stakeholders to deliver best in class supply chain experience for customers
- Proactively work with the sales team to collaboratively deliver the sales plan and ensure supply chain risks are managed
- Own the short-term forecast to drive accuracy and product availability for customers
- Own effective and efficient production schedule and master plan, from product mix and ebitda perspective
- Work with finance and production to ensure production order compliance
- Support the Senior Planner to ensure superior customer service can be achieved
Deliverable:
- APM and customer DIFOT targets to be meet
- Customer product availability
- Order maintenance is operating system (SAP)
- Drive production schedule adherence of 98%
- Drive efficiency by actively engaging in eliminating wasteful activities from our supply chain
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate production work flow for multiple products across various lines
- Plan and prioritise operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
- Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget
- Address issues as they arise aiming for minimum disruption
- Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.)
- Prepare and submit status and performance reports
- Keep paperwork organised
- Collaborate with quality control, warehouse and other staff
- Enter new Sales Orders & closure of open sales order
- Convert planned to firm production orders & Production order control
- Produce monthly and weekly production schedule
- Attend daily Production Meetings
- Run weekly meetings on final schedule with all stakeholders
- Raise change controls & Deviations
- Raise Master data & Raise Price requests in SAP
- Raise credit note in SAP
- Support team with NPI activities
- Collaborate with the Maintenance team to plan preventative maintenance schedules
- Investigate and improve processes, productivity, quality, cost control and customer service where possible
- Upload customer forecasts and delete old forecasts as well as deleting all planned orders
- Ensure full engagement and utilisation of ERP system - SAP
Qualifications / Experience:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent work experience
- At least 3 year's experience gained within a planning/supply chain role
- Proven experience as Production Planner within a manufacturing background
- Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles
- Experience in SAP ERP system (essential)
- Production and Materials planning experience is important also (BOM's, work flow planning etc)
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication abilities
Knowledge & Experience
- Proven track record in delivering change agendas
- Commercial acumen
- Able to influence and negotiate persuasively at peers and senior level internally and externally
- Dynamic approach to problem solving
- Able to present information accurately and concisely, appropriate to the audience
Skills & Competences
- Proven ability to work quickly and accurately, with an eye on suggesting improvements to processes and systems
- Ability to set own agenda and get buy in from key stakeholders
- Able to effectively plan and prioritise both regular tasks and project work keeping track of progress
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal), with the ability to get things done via others
- Able to influence and negotiate persuasively at peers and senior level internally and externally
- Dynamic approach to problem solving on medium as well as short term issues
- Able to present information accurately and concisely, appropriate to the audience
- Ability to deliver Best practice and service improvement through the team
- Interpret customer expectations and initiatives to achieve effective solutions for both the customer
- Delivers results, improvement and recognises, anticipates and responds to change
- Persuasive and influential, gain agreement and commitment from others
- Effective communication skills, verbally and written
- Highly numerate, structured and logical
- High attention to detail and sense of urgency
- Ability to adapt to situations and work on numerous projects/tasks simultaneously.
- High motivation and commitment to quality people and plant performance and customer service excellence.
- Strong understanding of safety principles and behaviours
- Ability to work independently, prioritise tasks and manage competing deadlines.
- Personal drive and results-orientation.
- Visible belief and demonstrated leadership in a Zero Harm culture
- Ability to remain resilient, calm and composed when under pressure.
- Strong rapport-building techniques - ability to build trust and confidence with stakeholders quickly.
Please apply below or Email Relevant resume to kjenkins@lpcommercial.com.au
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