Sr. Production Planner

About Us:

We provide ingredients, products, and solutions that create real value for our customers, with first-class support for innovation and exceptional customer service. We help our customers to solve problems and realize opportunities in their marketplace. Our core strengths lie in the development, manufacturing and application of baked ingredients and freeze-dried fruit, vegetables, and dairy. We work with leading food manufacturers and retailers across the globe and are developing innovative applications that add value. We use our unrivaled global reach, manufacturing footprint, and integrated planning process to deliver solutions with consistent quality, across the world.

Job Summary:

To be successful as a Sr. Production Planner, you should be knowledgeable of material requirements planning and able to manage production deadlines. Ultimately, an exceptional Production Planner should demonstrate excellent time management, organizational, and problem-solving skills to ensure that production operations run smoothly.

Production Planner Responsibilities:

• Work safely in every case and promote safety at every interaction with associates.
• Evaluating purchase orders to create suitable production schedules.
• Estimating the amount of material, equipment, and labor required for production.
• Promptly addressing and resolving production issues to minimize delays in production.
• Coordinating production operations in accordance with material, labor, and equipment availability.
• Recommending viable solutions to reduce production costs as well as improve production processes and product quality.
• Effecting changes to production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met.
• Works closely with warehouse staff to ensure accurate shipments.
• Notifies internal customers of variances such as back orders or delays and respond to inquiries.
• Compiling status and performance reports and submitting them to management in a timely manner.
• Promptly informing the relevant departments of changes to current production schedules.
• Maintain established procedures and ensure compliance with company policies, work instructions and safe work practices; implement and maintain “best practice” disciplines.
• Attend daily production meetings and communicate any issues affecting adherence to the scheduled production plan.
• Plan production schedule on a production horizon basis considering lead times, due dates and resources; clarify and optimize the plan, stock and service levels.
• Review progress of production schedule at the daily operations meeting; identifying potential issues and developing mitigation plans to reduce risk.
• Maintain and plan on capacity and stock projections.
• Work closely with all main functions of the business to ensure you are continually improving and constantly meeting the business objectives.
• This job description includes the main duties and responsibilities of the job, but job duties are not limited to it, may perform other duties as assigned.

Production Planner Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business management, or related field is preferred.
• Experience in SAP preferred
• Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) accreditation or other relevant certification is advantageous.
• Proven experience working as a Production Planner.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications.
• Sound knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) and related software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Effective communication skills.

Environment:

• Primarily a desk/production floor assignment
• Ability to work for long periods of time on a computer
• Able to bend and twist and lift 20 pounds.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $68.00 - $75.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Forest Grove, OR 97116: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person