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AvtechTyee Inc Production Planner in Everett, Washington
Are you looking for your next step in your career? Do you have a passion for manufacturing, supply chain and/or production? If so, we may have your next role! We are looking to add a Production Planner with experience creating schedules, updating reports, and tracking performance metrics. Also, you will be the liaison between our PLM and ERP system to ensure BOM's and routers meet design requirements. You will be responsible for coordinating, planning, scheduling, and mapping out how our products flow throughout their production process or cycle. Project Management skills would be a real plus!
You will be a part of our Procurement and Operations team, supporting our avionics/electronics manufacturing departments. What you will be doing:
- Review and implement engineering change orders into the ERP system.
- Maintaining the scheduling parameters, such as lead times, lot sizes, and cycle times, etc.
- Create production schedules, workflows and milestone charts.
- Review shortage reports, identify bottlenecks and work with the operations teams to solve constraints
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``` - Work with the Purchasing Group to relieve capacity constraints through outsourcing on a short term or long-term basis. Provide data necessary to quantify make/buy decisions
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``` - Analyze Demand and Supply at the Item, Customer Order and Master Schedule levels, determines out of balance conditions, identifies alternatives, and recommends actions for approval - Track product flow through outside processors to ensure on time delivery. Identify and process expedite requests as needed. Maintain outside processing performance metrics. - Coordinate with support functions (QC, engineering, materials, shipping) to ensure the timely production flow and shipment of products
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``` - Develop and improve tactical plans that establish the overall level of manufacturing production plans - Support and maintain the forecast, master schedule and procurement plan based on history, seasonality and sales opportunities. - Review and update forecast, production schedules and material requirements. - Support new product development through cooperative scheduling of model introductions, end of life and prototype processing with the potential suppliers - Proactively review material supply and demand to determine push/pull actions appropriate to impact manufacturing MPS and supply MRP exception messages. - Participate in the evaluation of quotations from our contracted manufacturers to assure all pertinent information is available to analyze for best possible price, quality and supply services to meet our strategic needs for the product life. - Review material shortages, stock outages, and safety stock levels while working with Contract Manufacturers, Purchasing and Manufacturing to meet customer requirements. Propose changes when needed and assist in the resolution of MRP and planning discrepancies. - Responsible for establishing production rates that will achieve management's objective in satisfying customer demand balanced with optimizing inventory levels and order backlogs
What you will bring to the role:
- Associate's Degree Required, Bachelor's Degree Preferred
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``` - 5+ years of proven experience in Master Scheduling, Production Planning, Capacity Planning, Material Requirement Planning and Forecasting - Working knowledge of tools and techniques for planning of inventory and production such as CRP, LEAN and TOC. - Experience with S&OP aligning and forecasting - Experience in Aerospace or other regulatory industry with an electronics focus is preferred
Knowledge/Skills that you may also have:
Knowledge and experience in a professional business environment
Proven experience with complex planning, fo