Production Capacity Planner

**Production Capacity Planner**

We are hiring a **Production Capacity Planner** who will lead, influence, negotiate and collaborate with manufacturing partners to ensure sufficient capacity to meet customer demands and enable optimum production levels.

**What you will be doing**:

- Collaborate with assigned team and across departments interfacing with suppliers and other functional organizations with routine frequency anticipating and effectively responding to the needs of the customer.
- Establish strong internal and external networks.
- Uses judgement and knowledge to recommend the best solution.
- Make use of Lean Office tools, gather an analyze data to independently solve problems of moderate scope and complexity under limited supervision.
- Lead well defined projects and provide guidance to team members on resolution.
- Demonstrate leadership in cross-functional problem solving.

**Who You Are**:
**Required Skills and Competencies**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or related.
- Deep understanding of Scheduling System logic is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
- 2-3 Year experience in Scheduling.

**Preferred Skills and Competencies**
- Industry business acumen
- Strong knowledge of the Central Scheduling operation and its impact on supportive business functions both internally and externally.
- Proficient in developing specific detailed work instructions
- Strong communication skills within team and cross-functionally as well as one or two levels higher in the organization; Strong facilitation, negotiation/persuasion skills.
- Able to understand product lead times and work within product capacity constraints.
- Strong team player.
- Willingness to broaden knowledge in Lean Office processes and tools.
- Able to use more complex SAP transactions and MS Office tools.
- Strong problem-solving skills: Ability to diagnose and solve complex business situations and implement improvements; Demonstrate leadership in cross-functional problem solving; Demonstrate confidence when identifying problems and involving the appropriate people to help work towards resolution.
- Exceptional customer focus.

**Why people choose to work with us**:
At Steelcase, we put people at the center of everything we do. We understand the role of work and believe that it can bring meaning and purpose to the lives of our customers and our employees. We prioritize supporting our employees both in and out of work, in all aspects of their lives. When we bring our talents together, we make a positive lasting impact through our work and communities.

**Who we are**:

- Organizations around the world trust Steelcase to help them create places that help people work better, be inspired, and accomplish more. We design, manufacture, and partner with other leading organizations to provide architecture, furniture, and technology solutions
- accessible through a network of channels, including over 800 Steelcase dealer locations. Steelcase is a global, industry-leading, publicly traded company with fiscal year 2021 revenue of $2.6 billion.

**What Matters to Us**:

- Steelcase provides employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, genetic information, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or veteran status and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. We are proud to be recognized for our inclusive workforce by the Corporate Equality Index for the past nine years._
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