Production Planner - Cranberry, United States - Cannon

Description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Production Planner

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The production planner is responsible for planning and utilizing the company's shop capacity to meet the company's goals and customers' delivery requirements.

Essential Functions

Production planning will involve arranging people and materials at the right time to allow them to produce the equipment and all related activities (testing, packaging, shipping) leading up to the shipment date.

Key Job Elements:

• Determine how many manhours it takes to complete the various stages for machine production, or to obtain those estimates from the shop supervisors or other knowledgeable person(s).
• Develop a schedule with enough manpower assigned to complete the order at the desired shipping date. Adjust schedules as customer needs change and communicate to the PM.
• Compare the needed manpower with all other customer orders also being scheduled at that same time period to ensure they can also be completed as scheduled.
• Determine the time frame needed to procure the materials and determine what date they would need to be ordered to arrive at the plant on the future date you have scheduled for starting production. Planner shall use a "pull" system to determine project schedules.
• Inform the Engineering managers of the required drawing release dates. Coordinate with the design group to indicate in detail which drawing packages you need. In some cases, specify if an immediate release of the known materials is needed, with the unknown details to follow later.
• Monitor the drawing releases as they are issued and ensure the materials are ordered as soon as possible, and assist when necessary. In cases where the item is not easily ordered, instruct the Project manager to do so with respect to the intended schedule.
• Update the schedules and revise monthly, weekly and daily goals accordingly. The Planner must let supervisors know which milestones must be met in the foreseeable future.
• When the delivery date is threatened, the Planner informs Operations, Engineering, and Project Manager (where applicable) to ensure they are aware that a deadline is not being met and the legitimate schedule may be in jeopardy. The Planner will be tasked with looking at the current schedule to identify where changes might be made to meet the original schedule.

Other Duties and Interactions

• Provide timely information regarding problems in production that may adversely affect quality, delivery or customer requirements as soon as they are known.
• Most frequent interaction will be multiple times daily with shop floor supervisors, inventory & Logistics, engineering manager, key suppliers, and material controller. Secondary interaction will be with Director of Operations, Tech Service, and Project Managers.
• Establish and maintain good interpersonal relationships and communications with all levels to assure positive intercompany relations.
• Conduct routine production coordination meetings between shop supervisors, Engineering Managers, and materials functions to ensure they are all aware of the goals for the day, week, or other period covered by the meeting
• Attend and document requirements of new orders at kick-off meetings
• Be able to respond readily to "what if" questions which may ask how long it would take for us to build a potential new order.

Qualifications:

• Must be able to manage a 15-20 project workload
• Proficient with Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Sense of priority and urgency required since this is a key production position
• Very good verbal and written communication skills
• Promotes good attitude and teamwork.
• Able to read bill of materials and tolerances on drawings

Able to learn and use ERP business system- currently MS Dynamics

Able to multitask and keep multiple projects progressing according to the schedule

Very organized and maintains files easily accessible and understood by back-up employees

Ability to bend, stoop, squat, twist and lift up to and including 30 lbs. unassisted. Assistance must be used for any items over this weight.

Competencies

Familiarity with industrial electrical and fluid handling components and general hardware.

Methodical and organized

Technical capacity to have basic understanding of finished products

Ability to handle rush orders on a steady basis

Highly productive use of PC for processing material orders and developing schedules

Very effective communication skills with outside suppliers and shop supervisors

Basic familiarity with AutoCAD and Adobe for drawing printing and sizing

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners and drawing copiers. The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions. The noise level in the shop environment can be loud.

Physical Demands

Thephysical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

This is largely a sedentary role; however, walking several hundred feet at a time is routine.

Travel

This position requires up to 5% travel, mostly locally.

Required Education and Experience

Minimum of a High School diploma and three to five years' experience in similar role.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Company DescriptionSince 1965, Cannon has been a leading global player in reactive polymer processing technologies, with 1,300 employees worldwide and a presence in 40 different countries.

At Cannon USA, we provide machines and turnkey plants in a variety of markets such as automotive, aerospace, appliances, building and construction, furniture, medical, and electronics.

Extensive know-how and a significant aptitude for innovation enables us to develop technologically advanced and efficient solutions for different and exciting applications.

Cannon is a long-standing supplier of polyurethane equipment headquartered in Milan, Italy, and is a pioneer in the polyurethane market.

Cannon provides various types of machinery and equipment to customer locations around the world.

Cannon USA supplies and services this equipment to all customer locations throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico to many customers including many major leading manufacturers.

Come join an internationally known polyurethane equipment manufacturing leader.

We are looking for a candidate that can satisfy our requirement for a field service representative for an interesting, challenging, and essential position that will have an impact on the U.S.

supply of both major and smaller manufacturing facilities.

If you are that person that can join our team and make a difference in what we do, please apply.

Company DescriptionSince 1965, Cannon has been a leading global player in reactive polymer processing technologies, with 1,300 employees worldwide and a presence in 40 different countries.

At Cannon USA, we provide machines and turnkey plants in a variety of markets such as automotive, aerospace, appliances, building and construction, furniture, medical, and electronics.

\r\rExtensive know-how and a significant aptitude for innovation enables us to develop technologically advanced and efficient solutions for different and exciting applications.

Cannon is a long-standing supplier of polyurethane equipment headquartered in Milan, Italy, and is a pioneer in the polyurethane market.

Cannon provides various types of machinery and equipment to customer locations around the world.

Cannon USA supplies and services this equipment to all customer locations throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico to many customers including many major leading manufacturers.

\r\rCome join an internationally known polyurethane equipment manufacturing leader.

We are looking for a candidate that can satisfy our requirement for a field service representative for an interesting, challenging, and essential position that will have an impact on the U.S.

supply of both major and smaller manufacturing facilities.\r\rIf you are that person that can join our team and make a difference in what we do, please apply.

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