Production Planner

Posted: 4/26/2022 5:41:36 PM

Oxnard, CA

Permanent

Pay: $60,000 to $80,000

Description:

• Coordinate production workflow for all products.
• Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
• Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
• Communicate needs of materials such as boxes or bags to buyer to ensure they are ordered and delivered when needed
• Assign priority to different work centers within thermoforming and extrusion. 
• Schedule the different jobs for thermoforming and extrusion, based on customer orders and forecasts. 
• Communicate production schedule with production team and ensure it is being followed
• Maintain customer forecasts to help determine quantities for production runs
• Maintain and update “shortage report” to communicate expected completion times of customer orders to customer service and sales representatives
• Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget
• Address issues when 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 organized
• Perform physical inventories of necessary items (boxes, rolls, bags, etc.) needed to complete scheduled production runs, as necessary.
• Create, maintain and or update Bills of Materials (BOMS) to ensure all material usages are correctly deducted in the system, as necessary.

• Proven experience as production planner
• Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles
• Experience in MRP II (Manufacturing resource planning)
• Working knowledge of MS Office and ERP systems (IQMS)
• Good at math and statistics
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of commitment and urgency
• Excellent communication abilities
• High school diploma; Further education or certification is preferred