Associate, Production Planning

About the Role

The Associate, Production Planning serves as a liaison between Operations and Program Management to support program requirements and milestones. This role requires broad theoretical job knowledge of material coordination and processes, working under minimal direction and guidance within standard processes for non-routine tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided as needed to achieve milestone completions.
• Coordinate the production and/or purchase of components to support the master production schedule, shop work load, and inventory requirements.
• Utilize prior experience to identify risks and opportunities regarding material availability to ensure the success of the production plan and maintain finish date integrity.
• Track multiple projects with varying complexity to completion with limited supervision assistance.
• Communicate status and needs with cross-functional teams, including various internal and external customers (e.g., quality assurance, manufacturing, procurement, engineering, inventory control).
• Schedule and expedite the movement of parts by means of move orders, stock transfers, and requests for shipping orders.
• Contribute to systems and process changes in work routines.
• Work to achieve operational targets that impact team results.
• Communicate and coordinate within own team as well as other organizations to provide solutions to problems within the supply chain.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Broad theoretical job knowledge of material coordination and processes.
• Experience in production planning.
• Ability to work under minimal direction and guidance within standard processes for non-routine tasks.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate within own team as well as other organizations.
• Ability to contribute to systems and process changes.
• Ability to achieve operational targets.
• Ability to track multiple projects with varying complexity to completion with limited supervision assistance.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Or, have completed a bachelor’s degree within the last 12 months, regardless of age.