Job Title: Production Planner / Master Scheduler

Job Description

• Develop and maintain production schedules based on customer orders, demand plans, and forecasts, production capacity, and material availability ensuring alignment between ERP production schedules and customer requirements. Lead the team on planning continuous improvement efforts and best practice use of MRP system; provide input and support in the development and implementation of production planning strategies, policies, and procedures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including manufacturing, purchasing, account management, quality, and engineering to gather relevant information and ensure accurate plans and schedules identifying variances against plan to drive corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain a planning inventory strategy to balance service level expectations and inventory.
• Monitor and analyze demand forecasts, sales orders, and production requirements to effectively balance supply and demand.
• Lead activities to ensure supply plan and schedule are aligned, in partnership with S&OP, and work to reconcile planning elements when disconnects arise.
• Evaluate production processes, lead times, and capacity constraints to identify opportunities for improvement and optimize scheduling efficiency.
• Communicate production schedules and updates to various stakeholders, including account management, production, engineering, and assess risk, issues, and conflicts that may impact the schedule, and develop mitigation plans.
• Define analytic requirements and/or develop reports, dashboards, or PowerBI analytics.
• Maintain accurate master data and planning parameters to drive the correct supply/demand signals.

Hard Skills

• ERP production scheduling
• MRP system best practices
• Supply and demand balancing
• Production process evaluation
• Data analysis and reporting
• Master data maintenance

Soft Skills

• Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
• Teamwork

Job Type

This is a permanent position.

Work Site

This is a fully on-site position in San Jose, California.

Work Environment

M-F 8am-5pm (flexible on morning start time). Fully Onsite. Facility is the size of 5 football fields, 300,000 square feet. Machine Shop/Production.