Job Posting - Production Control Planner

[Harris, Ranida Boonthanom]

Date Posted: 11-28-11

Position: Production Control Planner

Location: Louisville, KY

Company:  Grindmaster (www.gmcw.com)

Job Summary: The Production Control Planner plans and schedules work through manufacturing work centers to meet the on-time delivery schedule and cost target commitments. The Production Control Planner is responsible for maintaining and reporting production schedules, which includes but is not limited to capacity and manpower planning, to ensure that bottlenecks are prevented or minimized and that work flows through all manufacturing departments as effectively as possible. In addition, the Production Control Planner mentors Production Control personnel and recommends improvements for streamlining the department.

Responsibility: Typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Planning, implementing, monitoring, troubleshooting, adjusting, publishing and communicating production schedules to ensure on-time delivery of all customer orders.
• Expediting and prioritizing work orders and coordinating and facilitating production schedule meetings.
• Analyzing sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements to ensure Grindmaster’s ability to effectively allocate and schedule parts, materials, machines, and sequences of operations and workflow to meet the demands of the sales orders.
• Examining, improving, streamlining and standardizing procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates work processes.
• Interfacing (collaborating, troubleshooting, reporting and partnering) with Customer Service, Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain personnel (and key personnel in other functional organizations, as required) on material status and production planning issues.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Five years of experience in Production Control in roles of increasing responsibility.
• Strong team collaboration and problem solving skills.
• Strong communication skills are a must, both written and oral.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with Baan.
• APICS certification – Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)

Email/phone contact:

Please contact Carrie Fletcher, Payroll & HR Manager, CFle...@gmcw.com,
Phone 502-357-2126, Fax 502-357-2233