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Production Planner
Trillium Professional is now seeking a Production Planner In Newark, CA for a direct-hire opportunity!
The Production Planner is responsible for accurately processing customer orders, from order entry through delivery and communicating a positive relationship with the customer. He/she will work closely with Production Supervisors, Sales/Customer Service, Design, Sourcing, Shipping, and Quality. He/she will be a liaison between Sales (the customer) and Production to ensure the customer’s order is accurately and professionally completed. He/she will control production schedules across multiple manufacturing sites, planning and prioritizing to maximize efficiency and OTD performance. He/she will coordinate with the team daily to monitor production status, address issues as they arise, and provide regular status/performance reports.
Main Responsibilities:
Scheduling and Communicating
• Manage daily production schedule to completion within scheduled period, assigning tasks to supervisors/leads as required
• Communicate both upstream and downstream for the entire duration of a sales order
• Monitor manufacturing times to maximize efficiency, making recommendations for improvement where applicable
Personnel
• Carries a team building, professional dialogue with supervisors to convey expectations along with prioritizing requests
• With Manager, performance manage employees as required to maintain a safe, efficient, and cooperative work group.
• With Manager drive goals actual vs estimated labor reports/efficiencies
Operations
• Manage daily production schedule to completion within scheduled period, assigning tasks to supervisors/leads as required
• Monitor manufacturing times to maximize efficiency, making recommendations for improvement where applicable
• Maintain production quality in accordance with the company or customer standards and ISO 9001 and 14001
• Be a team player by helping ensure that the workplace is operating in accordance with OSHA and local standards
• Report machine unplanned down time or lack of labor to General Manager when required
• With the Manager, assist in the planning and scheduling of all work
• Provide input as a team player regarding budgets and capital expenses and assist in feasibility studies to drive improvements in WIP related items through CI, SWOT, etc.
• Interface with engineers to resolve technical issues
• Production Planning/Administration Staff
• Generates and issues Customer Work Orders if necessary, drawings and other related documentation containing critical information regarding products to be produced and material requirements
Engineering
• Reviews documentation for accuracy as part of our process flow
• Makes necessary modification requests to the TSS to documentation and releases to Production upon completion
Production Planner
• A primary function of the Production planner is coordinating and expediting the flow of production through the plant, driven by responsiveness, production, capacities and Customer Service requirements
• Review a variety of relevant production related documents, analyzing, interpreting and developing appropriate action plans to ensure efficient and continuous production
• The Planner interfaces with outside contractors, suppliers and vendors as well as members of management and fellow employees. As such the incumbent must maintain an accurate and current awareness of issues that impact production and customer service
• The Production Planner is responsible for assigning production workload, expediting work in progress, communicating shipping/receiving activities, reviewing/researching/documenting/creating a variety of related reports and working on any production process depending on priority and need
• To be effective the incumbent must possess a good working knowledge of the production operation and its capabilities
Lead Hand Evaluation Factors
• Must possess a good working knowledge of all plant equipment and their respective output capacities
• Must have a thorough knowledge of process capabilities.
Annual salary is $80k/year. Apply now!
-Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, or Operations preferred
-2+ years of experience in a Production Planning position within a manufacturing environment
-Experience with ERP system
-Experience working with steel, wood, corrugate, foam and/or other traded material considered an asset
Trillium
has been recruiting and placing accounting, finance and technical professionals
for over 30 years. From Fortune 100 companies to small businesses, our
philosophy remains the same: to achieve excellence by providing quality
employees with an uncompromising level of service. We believe in honesty,
integrity, and a simple philosophy of providing value to our customers and our
employees. We strive to be unsurpassed in the recruitment and placement of
technical professionals. Trillium is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Trillium offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes the ability to participate in health insurance and retirement plans, paid holidays, state required leave, and other leave, if applicable. Trillium’s offerings are dependent on the state in which the assignment is located, length of time worked, and may change depending on assignment. Benefit packages for direct hire placements vary based on the client company.
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