Master Planner

Job Purpose Statement

The Master Planner is responsible for planning the Master Production Schedule provided by the Materials Flow Manager.  The Master Planner will be the primary contact for the manufacturing site to resolve supply related issues.  He/she owns the site capacity analysis used for creating a constrained supply plan. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner with procurement, production manager, quality, engineering, and program management, and other supply chain disciplines to proactively plan, schedule, and effectively manage development, production, and aftermarket support environments
• Developing daily production schedules
• Establish procedure for centralized demand estimating plus production planning throughout company for all products
• Managing inventory to maintain appropriate levels
• Coordinating the availability of raw materials for the production process

• Effectively applies Lean and Green Belt tools in daily rapid problem solving activities
• Ensure to effectively and promptly communicate with main stakeholders from Finance, Sales, Manufacturing, Program Management and Supply Chain pertinent to requirements and impacts.

• Expert in executing complex scheduling tasks while leading continuous improvement processes.
• Leader in driving process excellence and continuous improvement efforts.

• Proficient to negotiate and communicate cross-functionally across the organization, coordinating with purchasing, inspection, engineering, manufacturing, sales, contract's, shipping & receiving to exceed objectives

• Anticipates and Resolves all disruptions

• Anticipates problems, recognizes and eliminates barriers.

• Demonstrates an active commitment to continuous improvement, encouraging recommendations and changes in procedures to streamline processes and increase efficiencies.
• Completes work with no supervision and able to provide training and coaching to others as needed

• Follows established procedures and best practices

• Recognized expert to train new hires as needed

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills; possesses excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; anticipates potential issues and resolves them
• Expert in interacting with team members and peers to anticipate and resolve day-to-day issues and resolving competing project priorities
• Highly Efficient in working with  related project team members (Global Planning, Other sites, Purchasing, etc.) and colleagues to develop and implement continuous improvement solutions

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, engineering or a related field, required
• Minimum 3 years of Supply Chain Experience, required
• APICS certification, preferred
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, required

Personal Trait Profile:

• Good written and verbal communication skills 
• Must be highly organized and detailed oriented 
• Detailed understanding of supply chain principles.
• Thorough understanding of the following: various production planning and inventory techniques and practices, Capacity Planning, various forecasting techniques and their application.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and networking skills.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent partnering and team building skills.
• Self-confident and self-starter.
• Ability to remain focused on core processes despite outside influence
• Effective communicator