Junior Planner

1996

Junior Planner Job Summary:

The Junior Planner together with operations is responsible for the on-time delivery of parts and schedule adherence, from start until shipment, while providing transparent communication between program management and operations.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Production Plan
• Responsible for production plan for the customer programs under her/his responsibility, including planning, monitoring, and driving on-time delivery to the customer
• Support master planning to provide inputs for the production plan, review priorities and solve conflicts
• Communicate the production plan to the shop floor
• Review planning in the daily planning meetings with cross department teams
• Measure planning execution and act based on these results and KPIs
• Provide delivery planning to key account managers
• Provide planning for spare parts
• Propose action plans to solve bottlenecks
• Analyses Requirements
• Analyses the requirements for availability of components and required capacity to achieve on-time delivery to the customer
• Immediately escalate capacity issues to operations and master planning
• Follow-up Slow moving and rework processes
• Actively involved in slow moving and rework processes to reduce WIP and old stock
• Inform Quality department of slow moving items
• Follow-up and escalate with MRB to guarantee timely communications to the customer and follow-up with PM to timely receive dispositions;
• ERP data accuracy
• Update master planner data such as lead times, safety stocks, order quantities, etc., to improve accuracy of the production plan
• External and Internal Interactions
• Work with key account manager and customer to improve delivery for customer needs
• Provide recovery plan for late work orders to the customer
• Provide long term delivery/recovery plan to key account manager
• Additional job duties as assigned.

Performance Indicators:

• On-time delivery
• Working Capital
• Schedule adherence

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient computer skills with MS Office
• Good communication skills (written, verbal and presentation)
• High level of assertively
• Strong analytical and creative thinking skills
• Flexible, well organized and efficient
• Team player
• Results oriented
• Takes initiate and displays a pro-active attitude
• Open to travel (limited)

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor s in Supply Chain/Business or equivalent 1+ yrs. experience in buyer/planner/supply chain/procurement
• Experience in production planning is a plus
• Experience in an ERP system is a plus