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Bel Fuse Inc
Senior Planner
Career Insights for Scheduler / Operations Coordinator
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What they do
A Scheduler or Operations Coordinator provides scheduling and logistical support for an office, company or organization. May specialize in scheduling required for production or for administrative work.
$53,344 / year median in Minnesota
+3% projected growth
Job Description
The Sr. Production Planner-Analyst will manage the production plan in coordination with the master production schedule, MRP action messages and modifiers, and forecasts to provide maximum customer satisfaction while maintaining appropriate inventory levels. Facilitates and directs production floor discrete work order creation, movement, and record-keeping. Coordinates with all company departments to ensure production schedules and outputs are correct and will meet customer commitments.
Are You Looking To:
- Manage and interpret MRP workbench and applicable planning information to create discrete jobs and purchase requisitions for assigned planner codes and support planning of all product families, while providing input to Planning Manager, Master Scheduler and Production Supervisor/Manager on overtime and resource requirements.
- Generate and interrupt MRP reports and action notices providing directions to applicable areas ensuring business requirements and customer expectations are met.
- Manage, analyze, and interpret communications and procedures for non-standard production occurrences, including ECOs, customer expedites, short lead times, new products and implement solutions that affect all functional areas.
- Manage the operating system database, analyzing, interpreting and revising data as required in assigned areas to continuously improve planning accuracy in modules including Materials (Purchasing and Inventory Control, Master Scheduling and MRP); Engineering (Bills of Materials, Production Shop Floor Control); and Customer (Data, Finance, Job Closings).
- Analyze and interpret work in process against job sizing, rescheduling and other constraints, striving to continuously improve quality, cycle times, schedule attainment, and cost effectiveness.
- Actively participate and support the production planning meetings providing detailed updates and plan status.
- Provide direction and mentoring for the planner/analyst and production planner(s) with a goal of achieving and maintaining a team environment of cooperation and support.
- Establish and maintain positive working relationships within assigned teams and with all departments, internal and external clients as applicable.
- Work cross-functionally to communicate proactively with customer service, sales, production, and other relevant areas to ensure customer commitments align with production schedules, and any deviations are proactively shared with appropriate parties.
Are You Ready To:
- Assume other projects and responsibilities as directed.
- Regular and predictable attendance is presumed to be an essential function of all positions.
- Maintains effective internal relationships with all functions at all levels, requiring highly developed negotiating skills. Must communicate effectively and extensively with internal and external clients, while striving to meet customer needs.
- Management of Production floor schedule is critical to finished goods quality, yield and on-time delivery.
What You'll Need:
- BA/BS degree in business or technology, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Three or more years' experience in production/inventory control in a manufacturing or similar facility with an MRP system.
- Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- APICS certification preferred.