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The Wave Planner ensures timely order fulfillment by organizing and releasing work (waves) to the warehouse floor. This role coordinates order picking based on priority, labor, inventory, and shipping deadlines to maximize efficiency and service. If you're a problem solver used to working in a fast-paced environment with strong planning, coordination, and system expertise, then apply today!
What You Will Do
- Wave Management:
- Develop wave release strategy based on cut-off times, order priority, and labor.
- Release, monitor, and adjust waves using the Warehouse Management System.
- Prioritize orders based on SLA requirements, customer criteria, and transportation schedules.
- Coordinate with supervisors to ensure labor and equipment align with plans.
- System and Data Analysis:
- Maintain logs of wave activities and report on performance, accuracy, and throughput.
- Monitor warehouse systems for efficiency and provide system feedback.
- Report, investigate, and fix system issues.
- Operations Coordination:
- Act as liaison between planning, operations, inventory control, and shipping teams.
- Notify teams of high-priority orders, short picks, and system issues.
- Collaborate with inventory control to resolve discrepancies.
- Shipment Planning:
- Plan waves for nightly bulk plan, maximizing shipment consolidation.
- Coordinate with yard jokey on moving trailers to dock doors and assigning door numbers to shipments.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Report on daily KPIs and run root cause analysis for missed SLAs.
- Recommend improvements to wave planning logic and order routing processes.
What You Will Bring
- Education: High school diploma required; college degree in supply chain, business, or related field preferred.
- Experience: 1-3 years in operations planning, warehouse, or logistics. Strong understanding of warehouse operations including picking, packing, inventory, and shipping processes.
- Systems Expertise: WMS platforms such as Manhattan, SAP, or Oracle. TMS platforms such as Oracle or 3G. ERP platforms such as Oracle, Sage, or SAP.
- Skills: Strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and time management skills.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive Pay & Benefits: Enjoy a robust Total Rewards Program that includes health, financial benefits, and more.
- Generous Time Off: Take advantage of our generous vacation, sick days, holidays, plus a volunteer day to give back to the community.
- Retirement & Growth: 401(k) match, profit sharing, and abundant growth and development opportunities to help you advance your career.
- Parental Leave: Because we care about your family and your future.
Compensation: The expected base pay range for this role is $28- $34 an hour. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Making the connections that matter. Join us and apply online to be part of the Panduit team. We're an Equal Opportunity Employer, dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace for all. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Panduit will not sponsor applicants for work visas now or in the future.
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What We Do
Panduit was born from innovation. In 1955, we launched our first product: Panduct Wiring Duct, a new invention that uniquely organized control panel wiring and allowed new wires to be added quickly and neatly. Since that time Panduit has introduced thousands of problem solving new products and remained committed to providing innovative electrical and network infrastructure solutions.
Today, customers look to Panduit as a trusted advisor who works with them to address their most critical business challenges within their Data Center, Enterprise, and Industrial environments. Our proven reputation for quality and technology leadership coupled with a robust ecosystem of partners across the world enables Panduit to deliver comprehensive solutions that unify the physical infrastructure to help our customers achieve operational and financial goals.
