Production Planner - HIS Innovations

Job Title: Production Planner

Department: Planning

Reports to: Planning Manager

Location: Onsite, Hillsboro, OR

Job Summary:

The Production Planner plays a critical role in developing and maintaining production schedules to meet customer demand. Ensuring efficient communication and scheduling priorities to maintain seamless workflow within HIS manufacturing facilities. This role involves strategic planning, scheduling, and coordination of production activities to meet on time delivery.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops daily and forward-looking production plans for both manufacturing work centers and warehouse kitting work centers. Manages work order release and prioritize releases based on production schedules to meet on time delivery requirements.
• Participates in daily production meetings, providing clarity on priorities and helping resolve potential bottlenecks. Monitors progress daily to ensure work centers have materials required to execute production plans.
• Modifies plans as customer needs and priorities change or as capacity or material issues arise. Updates production plans and key stakeholders when changes arise.
• Utilizes both firm and forecasted orders to ensure materials and component requirements for manufacturing are met. Coordinates with purchasing to ensure timely material availability. Identifies and mitigates potential shortages in advance of due dates.
• Anticipates and proactively addresses potential production disruptions, such as equipment downtime, delays in material deliveries, or capacity / material shortages.
• Collaborates cross functionally with supply chain, operations, and engineering to ensure all requirements to achieve the production schedule are met. Participates and aids departments in new product introduction activities.
• Aligns with and communicates with the sales teams to ensure daily production schedules and forecasts meet customer demand. Communicates lead times and potential delays in a timely manner, keeping all stakeholders aware and informed.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or equivalent.
• Minimum of four years of production planning experience in a vertical manufacturing environment.
• Experience in planning integrated systems and metal fabrication.
• Robust ERP skill set, familiar with MRP concepts and implementations, Microsoft Office.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with tight deadlines.

If you are seeking a new challenge and an opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and growing company, we would love to hear from you. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted, though we keep all applicants on file to consider as candidates for future opportunities. We look forward to reviewing your application and potentially welcoming you to our dedicated team of professionals.

Benefits: As an employee of HIS Innovations Group, you will enjoy a variety of benefits, including Health Care, Dental, Vision, & Life Insurance, Short- and Long-term Disability, Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account, 401(k) with company match, Paid Time Off (PTO), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a casual work environment.

HIS Innovations Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.