Planner Scheduler (Administrative)

Job Posting Start Date 02-24-2025 Job Posting End Date 04-24-2025

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Planner Scheduler located in Coopersville MI.

Reporting to the Logistics Manager, the Planner Scheduler, will be involved in helping materials and production functions. Plans, schedules, coordinates, and approves product release to the production planning systems based on material and capacity availability.

Here is a glimpse of what you'll do:

• Checking the possibility of the order fulfillment based on the available resources (materials, employees, equipment's etc.), confirmation of the order.
• Preparation of production plans, input of planning data into the integrated computer system of the company, notification of the purchasing group.
• May also help inventory control, supply chain management, material planning, and scheduling.
• Monitoring, control of implementation of plans, starting necessary actions in case of deviations
• Preparation of long-term plans, forecasts (MPS, Forecast).
• Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data, routing, BOM, CFT data /non-consumed demand, planned WO's.
• Preparing of Clean to build reports, checking the material availability, replanning if necessary, informing of order desk, ECO implementation tracing.
• Monitoring of stock level, handling of stock differences.
• Preparing management and CFT specificized reports, monitoring of KPI's.
• Giving assistance, replacement in certain cases to SCM and Order desk within the CFT.
• Advises non-exempt associates regarding day-to-day priority of customer requests.
• Monitors and proactively addresses issues that impact performance to committed ship date (CSD), lead-time, response time, and inventory goals.
• Coordinates and manages high-visibility and/or important customer programs. 
• May include initial customer or product startup initiatives or large customer programs.
• Coordinates with Master Scheduler to manage product life cycle and related materials availability issues.
• Drives process improvements inside and outside the area of Order Management.
• Provides input to management, reschedules, and /or interfaces with customer program management, master scheduling, customers, and production control to reschedule production in the event of design changes, labor and material shortages, backlogs, and other potential schedule interruptions.
• Represents Order Management on various Customer Focus Teams.

Here is some of what you'll need:

• 5 years of experience as a Planner Scheduler Materials planner or similar roles
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience with BAAN preferred
• SMT planning experience preferred  
• Excellent Excel Spreadsheet experience
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Production Planning/scheduling, and DOF (Direct Order Fulfillment)
• Previous experience in the Automotive Manufacturing Industry
• Micro Soft Office Suite
• Customer communication and meetings
• Learn new tools/software quickly and work/multi-task under pressure
• Work on a variety of problems of diverse scope and complexity where analysis and evaluation of various outcomes require tradeoffs and negotiation.

Here are a few of our preferred experiences:

• Knowledge of Manufacturing management principles and practices.
• Enterprise Resource Planning / Manufacturing Execution Systems / Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems / programming / Value Stream mapping / Business Process mapping

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What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Job Category

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Relocation: Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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