Senior Production Planner - By Light Professional IT Services LLC
Port Orange, FL 32128-8318
About the Job
By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.
Position Overview:The Senior Production Planner plans, schedules and coordinates the flow of work and materials that initiates demand internally and externally to drive supply chain; and within or between departments, according to the production schedule. The Senior Production Planner is responsible for maintaining and reporting production schedules, which includes but is not limited to capacity and manpower planning to ensure that bottlenecks are prevented or minimized and that work flows through all manufacturing departments as effectively as possible.
Responsibilities:- Planning, implementing, monitoring, troubleshooting, adjusting, publishing and communicating production schedules to ensure on-time delivery of all customer orders
- Examining, improving, streamlining and standardizing procedures to improve efficiency of work processes
- Resolving the day-to-day issues within Production Control and with other departments
- Conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates
- Providing updates on all programs to Management and report any issues that may impact production schedule
- Executing program closeout for all materials
- Continuous improvement of processes and procedures
- Mentoring team members, training new hires in the department
- Providing feedback for annual reviews within the department
- Working with the Purchasing department to make sure that parts are ordered and arrive on time
- Providing updates at weekly program meeting
- Performing other duties as directed
- 5+ years’ experience with ERP systems with an MRP focus
- 7+ years’ experience in a manufacturing or production environment with responsibilities in planning, scheduling, and reporting;
- High school diploma/GED or above;
- Must be a highly analytical thinker and problem solver.
- Must have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel;
- 5+ years’ experience with CostPoint as an ERP system