Production Planner Assistant - Newport News, United States - Eagle Technologies LLC

Eagle Technologies LLC

Verified Company

Newport News, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Production Planner Assistant

Job Summary:
Provides departmental support in ways that guide production to meet customer demand, and maintain internal production flow.

Oversees the Planning and Purchasing department ensure all production is scheduled, coordinated, monitored, & executed in accordance with customer order requirements and lead times.

Summary of
Duties and Responsibilities:

Engage and drive continual improvement efforts and lead all production planning and supply chain logistics efforts.
Communicate daily with production team, quality department, and management top priorities/concerns and resolve all planning issues timely.
Review estimates (set up times, run times, and lead times) for quotes, and audit production performance to these.
Track and monitor productivity metrics and performance. Review and approve personnel labor hours and address productivity.
Evaluate job profitability of manufacturing jobs by reviewing/analyzing, in detail, actual hours verse estimated hours by set up and run times for each operation. Then implement continual improvement efforts as necessary.
Reviewing and managing customer forecasts with planning strategy to support.
Communicate upcoming scheduling conflicts with key stakeholders and recommend solutions
Analyze daily backlog and business reports to monitor workload and capacity requirements
Drive continuous improvement initiatives for production scheduling process, information flow and measure production rate against target
Read and interpret design media. (3d models, Blueprints, ETC)
Read and interpret industry and customer specifications.
Assist in the purchase of raw materials, tooling, and hardware required for manufacture.
Provide logístical support for required subvendor processing.
Evaluate subvendor performance.
Work alongside the engineering and design team to provide manufacturing support.
Creation of detailed work orders and procedures.
Attaches identifying tags to material and/or marks them with pertinent information.
Other activities as may be directed

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Team Player
Strong attention to detail.
Manufacturing background (Research and development is a plus)
Basic knowledge of aerospace principles and concepts (Plus)
Basic mechanical aptitude.
Ability to communicate to all levels of the company.
Ability to prioritize and multitask.
Excellent computer skills and proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Outlook and the Internet.
Ability to work (sit and/or stand) at a desk for majority of the work day; walking and/or standing may be required for the remainder of the work day. Length of time performing these physical requirements may vary from day to day and task to task
Ability to lift 15 pounds.

Credentials and Experience

Bachelor's degree in production planning, logistics or related field, or 3 year of production planning experience
Must be a US citizen.

Eagle Technologies, LLC offers a full-time position with full benefits, competitive pay and opportunity to grow within a cutting-edge aerospace company.