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Production Planner

Hometown Food Co.

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Toledo, OH
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Job Description

As posted by the hiring company

Job Overview:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Create and manage daily, weekly and yearly production schedules to support customer demand
  • Understand the manufacturing process on assigned production lines to ensure schedule efficiency. 
  • Create and review capacity analysis to identify constraints or opportunities to better optimize planning
  • Exhibit knowledge of ERP systems and Microsoft Excel to apply these tools for planning purposes
  • Maintain optimal inventory levels while supporting service excellence to our customers. 
  • Strong ability to interpret data to support decision-making
  • Work through routine and non-routine situations in a fast-paced work environment
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Self-starter and resourceful individual
  • Demonstrates ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams; team player
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to tailor communication to the senior level management
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and make decisions on a limited set of data
  • Ability to make executive decisions to protect business needs/strategies
  • Ability to multitask and prioritize accordingly based off business or management needs
  • Other responsibilities as assigned


SELECTION CRITERIA

Education

  • Bachelors Degree Required: Supply Chain Management or equivalent preferred
  • APICs certification a plus

Experience

  • 2-5 years of experience in production planning and/or supply chain or equivalent
  • Project leadership preferred
  • Operations experience preferred

Other

  • Ability to develop and recommend process, system improvements
  • 2-5 years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Chain planning, forecasting, business planning or related function 
  • Experience with advanced planning system 
  • Experience in business analytics and reporting tools 
  • Experience and functionality within Excel