Production Planner at TOPS Products LLC in Covington, Tennessee

Job Description:

Position Summary

Scheduling and coordinating work on manufacturing equipment while ensuring the timely procurement of necessary raw materials. This position supports manufacturing and, ensures production schedules are met, materials are available, and customer delivery deadlines are maintained. The role requires daily monitoring of production outputs, making adjustments to schedules, coordinating material needs, and managing supplier relationships to ensure smooth operations across the production process..

Responsibilities

Mange routine production planning tasks with occasional non-routine assignments that require creative problem-solving and adjustments to standard procedures. Execute assignments with clear objectives and identified potential challenges, ensuring smooth operations while addressing any unforeseen issues. Follow established company and departmental policies, procedures, and regulations, while making necessary adjustments for unique or unexpected situations in the production process. Apply discretion and judgment when deviations from normal operating procedures are needed to maintain production efficiency and meet customer deadlines.

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• Review daily/weekly production schedules and sequence/load equipment to run primarily in one of the following areas: Prepress, Press, Bindery/Finishing. Optimize workflow by matching the equipment capabilities closely to the specification of the customer work. Typically plan for equipment and jobs that are a mix of routine to moderately complex in nature.
• Ensure that preceding requirements needed to begin running a job such as the preflight of the customer files, plating, raw materials, components are in place. Coordinate with the appropriate departments to ensure jobs will be able to run.
• Review daily production output and make adjustments/updates to daily/weekly schedules. May engage with Planners or management when issues arise and work needs to be moved around to resolve issues.
• Re-schedule work to different slots/equipment in the event of unplanned situations such as equipment failures, missing components or raw materials etc.
• Provide daily reports/updates to manufacturing operations so materials and staffing are coordinated with the forecasted workloads and that sales/customer service are updated on customer projects.
• Maintains control over inventories, including physical inventory counts and reconciliations
• Coordinate with vendors and/or internal resources to ensure that raw materials delivery will meet the scheduled run time for the customer project.
• May perform tasks related to long term planning and building of facility work plans.
• Performs other related duties and participates in special projects as assigned.

Job Knowledge & Skills

The duties and responsibilities described above are the essential functions of the job. The qualifications below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with 3-5 years of relevant administrative or operational support experience in manufacturing operations, including hands- on experience with ERP/ MRP systems, preferably Dynamics 365 or demonstrated ability to meet the job requirements through a comparable number of years of work experience.

Requires knowledge of general administrative/manufacturing operations procedures and knowledge of job specific processes to successfully execute and complete the more progressive/complex duties of the job. Ability to follow company policy and understand any rules or regulations governing the work being completed and impact work has on department or company. Must have very good knowledge of technology to include computers and software programs such as MS Office or MAC word processing, spreadsheets or other programs specific to the job in order to complete duties successfully. Requires good knowledge of multiple functions or areas of the business in which there is frequent contact with while completing daily work assignments of the job. Must have very good oral and written communication skills sufficient to explain departmental policy, methods and/or procedures when completing assignments. Requires very good organizational skills sufficient to accomplish work by established deadlines and ability to coordinate phases of work with others.

Requires knowledge of the equipment capabilities and understanding of the customer specifications. Good knowledge of the manufacturing/planning systems used to schedule equipment.

Additional job knowledge, skills, and/or abilities specific to a department may be listed on the staffing requisition.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Job Family: MFG