Production Planner

Company: Olli Salumeria
Location: Oceanside
Posted on: May 13, 2022

Job Description:

Job Summary

The Assistant Production Planner is responsible for creating, modifying, and managing production schedules in adherence to the company's requirements and deadlines.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities (not restrictive)
--- Analyze inventory, sales orders, history and forecasts to determine short and long term production schedules for RAW & RTE production departments.
--- Monitor production order status, identify delays and make necessary adjustments to schedules to meet deadlines.
--- Communicate with Purchasing, Sales, and Production Departments to determine raw material, finished goods and other
needs with an emphasis on regular follow ups about material and order updates.
--- Assist in developing models, reports, and methods to efficiently create improved dynamic production plans to support continued growth.
--- Assist accounting in determining nature and origin of production variances for weekly and monthly reporting.
--- Work closely with the QA Department in keeping the company on top of the highest production standards in the industry with a company wide aim of providing highest quality and safety.
--- Performs other duties and responsibilities as necessary.

Additional Functions
--- Perform other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities (If relevant)
--- N/A

Performance Indicators
--- Successfully creates and manages production schedules
--- Successfully communicates with other departments changes to the production schedule

Qualification & Experience Requirements

Education, Training:
--- Bachelor's degree and/or 2-3 years of production planning/scheduling experience.

Experience Preferred:
--- 2 years experience in the food manufacturing industry
--- 1-2 years experience in production planning/scheduling

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
--- Excellent ability to communicate effectively in English both written and verbally.
--- Ability to manage multiple priorities at one time using effective organizational skills and judgment in an environment of frequently changing circumstances.
--- Ability to multitask while being detail oriented.
--- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
--- Ability to adapt to frequent changes in the workload.
--- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
--- Ability to work with all levels of the organization.
--- Excellent attendance and accountability.

Language, Computer & Numeracy:
--- Ability to read and write in the English language
--- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals, unit of measure conversions.
--- Working knowledge with SAP Business Objects, preferred
--- Working knowledge with SAP, preferred
--- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
--- Ability to use Gmail

Travel Requirements
None

Typical Physical Activity
--- Regularly involves talking or listening, sitting, and the use of hands and fingers.
--- Frequently involves reaching with hands and arms, standing and walking.
--- Frequently involves standing and walking.
--- Occasionally involves crouching, stooping, kneeling and/or climbing or balancing.
--- Must be able to lift and carry items weighing up to 20 pounds.
--- Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items, works with the fingers, and perceives attributes of objects and materials.
--- Involves moderate physical activity performing non-strenuous daily activities of a primarily administrative nature.
--- Should be able to identify and distinguish colors, see clearly at 20 inches or closer and 20 feet or more, observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point, judge distances and spatial relationships, and adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.

Typical Environmental Conditions
--- May be exposed to moderate noise levels (i.e. warehouse equipment, light traffic).
--- May be exposed to moderate to high noise levels (i.e. production equipment, forklifts, heavy traffic)
--- May be exposed to humidity, intense cold, fumes and toxic chemicals.
--- May work in areas with mechanical moving parts, above ground with risk of fall, or areas with risk of electrical shock.

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