Planner

Position Summary

As an innovation leader, we look for ambitious, forward-thinking, open-minded and well-rounded individuals to join our global team.

The Planner must ensure production programs on time, correct and efficient programming, controlling the flow of materials and service index, guarantee the satisfaction of the clients, promote continuous improvement with a focus on prevention and under a work environment and respect, as well as promote the awareness of customers, materials usage accurate to assure customer compliance, maintain service levels with the client above 95%, controlling inventories ensuring timely deliveries in lines and volume, delivery the products on time, eliminating lost sales, zeroes, and low inventory levels.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible of how demand from MPS translates to accurate production programs.
• Management of work orders, jobs, and production controls
• Assure schedule production programs according to customers' needs.
• Managing the machine, molds constrain according to demand requirements.
• Monitor service level and inventory health   performance
• Keep work in process inventory on optimal level.
• Developing people resources and information tools for productivity optimization.
• Prepare production programs with their respective machine load, based on production standards and customer requirements.
• Distribute weekly shipments in delivery programs, covering the needs of the client; prioritize production, balance the load, and follow up programs, taking care of material requirements to eradicate obsolete, etc. optimizing the inventory, using the corresponding inventory management tools.
• Convert and communicate demand requirements for products into detailed plans and schedule programs for inventory level optimization.
• Calculate key inventory performance for materials and accessories.
• Builds knowledge of the company, processes and customers
• Solves a range of straightforward problems
• Analyses possible solutions using standard procedures
• Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction
• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
• Solves standard problems by analyzing possible solutions using experience, judgment and precedents
• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies
• Explains information to others in straightforward situations

Keys to Success

• Keeps self-control in hard situations.
• Strong Communication skills
• Problem Solving and decision making.
• Costumer focus (internal and external)
• Negotiation skills
• Creativity, proactivity, and teamwork.
• Problem Solving process.
• Exceptional attention to   internal and external customer requests
• Negotiation skills
• Requires expanded knowledge and experience in own area; incumbents are still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills
• Requires expanded conceptual knowledge in own area of expertise while developing additional skill sets

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None
• No supervisory responsibilities but may provide guidance to new associates

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• 2-4 years of experience on the same position (minimum)
• Bachelor’s degree in industrial or mechanical engineering preferred.
• 70% English
• ERP / Oracle knowledge
• Inventory management
• Quality System (ISO 9001) desirable
• Costumer focus
• Teamwork collaboration
• Problem solving and decision making.
• Accountability and responsibility.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Suite (Excel) and other ERP systems, such as Oracle.

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