Production Planner

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**- Develops and maintain schedule in Daily/Weekly increments to establish sequence and lead time based on takt times of each operation to meet due dates as per requirement to meet client on time in full target.- Analyzes quoted operations data and compares to departmental operations capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to achieve labor needs for the total business requirements based on the Department Manager’s direction.- Assists in daily/weekly production meetings with Production Department Leadership Team.- Provides production schedule to the team to initiate planning activities.- Accountable to follow all policies and procedures defined in the company quality systems.- Analyzes daily / weekly capacity and capability schedule and seeks preapproval from Production Control Manager for work to be outsourced based on findings.- Support purchasing to arrange transportation of material (including yield), sample, files and drawings to the vendor.- Creates a schedule of all sub-contracted work and has daily communication with purchasing to ensure delivery dates are maintained.- Enters the calculated time (Takt Time) for each operation on to the component list, based on the estimated quoted hours by operation.- Compares (BOM) requested operations to estimated quote to ensure there is no overlap or missed operations.- Maintains and provides accurate information for department KPI’s in a timely fashion.- Confers with department Leaders to determine status of assigned projects. Reviews KPIs status with the team during daily / weekly meeting.- Ensures and initiates action with Section Manager and Department Manager to mitigate issues related to quality and productivity that could affect time delivery of a production job.- Coordinates and Plans with Team when changes need to occur on the schedule.- Track schedule attainment and reports root causes for any deviation including recovery plan.- Analyze and provide information about any productivity/efficiency deviation.- Prepares production reports.- Check stock levels and order materials for the department if applicable.**Qualifications**- Fifth year college or university program certificate; or two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.- Bilingual in Spanish & English.- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of MS Access and internal custom programs Database software and ERP software would be an asset; MS Project; Advanced MS Excel and MS Word.1l3cOfSQUz