Title:  Associate, Production Planning (Salt Lake, UT)

Job Title: Associate, Production Planning

Job Code: 21256

Job Location: Salt Lake City

Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:  

This position is responsible for development of a master production schedule through compiling, balancing, and maintaining project-based schedule bases which support individual project life cycle.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering or other related degree.

Responsibilities:

• Use MRP to schedule project-based demand, balancing schedule needs with existing demands and shop floor capacity.
• Manage demand against constrained work centers and provide demand forecast reports to management. Make recommendations for rough cut capacity planning based on current and forecast demands.
• Maintain inputs for active schedule management and balance ongoing project mitigations with the overall production schedule. Includes inputs associated with dates, quantities, configuration, job order creation, and changes to existing job orders.
• Maintain interface between Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system and the Product Scheduling/Status system. Ensure material demands support program schedules while balancing production with available capacity. Process Work Authorization (WA) and Program Directive (PD) documents ensuring adherence to scheduling system, project grouping strategy, configuration control and approval guidelines.
• Manage impact and implement changes from Engineering Change Notices (ECN)
• Manage inventory and open orders for all assemblies related to assigned projects including project transfer request approvals, transfer-payback activity, excess/inactive/obsolete inventory reconciliation and open job order maintenance.
• Provide ongoing management of special MRP demand inputs including, PIRs, FAOs, Blocking Jobs to ensure time-phased requirements meet program needs while mitigating excess demands
• Schedule compression and critical path mitigation
• Identify and analyze MRP exceptions.