Job Summary: The Production Planner serves as the intermediary between elements of the supply chain and is directly responsible for mill production schedules. The Production Planner orchestrates all supply planning efforts with logistics and customer service teams, creating and organizing the most efficient manufacturing schedules that maximize efficiency and productivity and meet customer requirements.

Major Job Responsibilities:

Business Excellence • Partner with stakeholders (including internal supply planners, external customers, production resources, and logistics resources) to determine how to meet on-time needs and demands in the most cost-effective way

• Assist with on-time shipments to customers by scheduling machines for production runs

• Make production scheduling and transportation decisions with a high degree of autonomy

• Identify the most effective solutions to deliver the customer products on time

• Analyze manufacturing order data to optimize production schedules of plant machinery

• Generate daily, weekly, and monthly scheduling reports to measure performance and identify solutions to optimize efficiency when appropriate

• Continuously identify innovative ways to improve trim efficiency, reduce waste, and maximize machine utilization

• Balance competing needs, metrics (i.e., trim efficiency, shipment time, freight loading optimization) and goals to arrive at the optimal scheduling and logistics solution for all parties

• Perform necessary work resulting from unexpected mill outages/downtime

People and Culture

• Communicate production and logistics decisions with cross-functional stakeholders as necessary to ensure alignment

• Communicate regularly and effectively with manufacturing personnel to ensure production runs are sequenced to meet customer/company objectives

Critical Skills / Capabilities:

• Adaptability: Demonstrates agility, flexibility, and a willingness to modify one’s approach to achieve desired results; responds quickly to changing demands, processes, and updated information

• Growth and Results Oriented: Demonstrates an interest, willingness and drive to learn new things; seeks to understand concepts, processes, and ideas within area of functional expertise; naturally inquisitive; sets meaningful goals for personal work productivity

• Problem-Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations; demonstrates tackling a problem by using a logical, systematic, or sequential approach

• Decision-Making: Plans and decides on the course of action while allowing for flexibility to support ad-hoc scenarios; demonstrates ability to balance competing priorities

• Negotiation: Demonstrates an understanding of ways to negotiate effectively with others and understand each party’s objectives; recognizes the potential impact of negotiation proceedings to the business; assists with negotiations in less complex situations; asks questions to uncover points of agreement and disagreement to help others gain consensus

• Conflict Resolution: Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner; takes action to address employee grievances

• Communication: Clearly exchanges thoughts, ideas, and messages through written, verbal, and non-verbal methods that promote an understanding with the target audience; listens carefully and attentively

• Interpersonal Skills: Can relate to and communicate effectively with others to build rapport and relationships

Technical Skills: • Microsoft Office - Excel, Outlook • Experience with scheduling tools and supply chain software

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