Supply Chain Planner - Worthington Industries

Worthington Armstrong Venture (WAVE), a joint venture of Worthington and Armstrong World Industries, has established worldwide leadership in the production of suspended ceiling systems. WAVE produces metal ceiling grids that can be combined with Armstrong ceiling boards as a complete package or sold individually.

Founded in 1992, WAVE operates under a long-standing corporate philosophy rooted in the golden rule. This philosophy serves as an unwavering commitment to the customer, supplier, and shareholder, and it serves as the foundation for one of the strongest employee-employer partnerships in American industry.

Summary

Under the direction of the Supply Chain Manager, the Supply Chain Planner is responsible for coordination of raw material, work-in-progress and finished goods. Applying manufacturing strategies to ensure that safety, quality, production, and cost goals are met in alignment with company objectives. This position is responsible for the scheduling of material procurement, development, and oversight of production schedules, and monitoring of inventory levels to align with customer service excellence. This position will support manpower planning, resource management, workflow planning, and project prioritization to achieve operational efficiencies. This position will be a part of Aberdeen Supply Chain Team.

Responsibilities:

Production Planning:

• Planning of a production schedule for multiple machines; changeovers, steel flow management, overtime, etc.
• Develop and maintain production schedule through BPCS/SAP.
• Develop master production schedule in weekly increments. Establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates according to seasonal sales forecasts and customer orders.
• Examine production specifications and equipment capacity data to determine manufacturing processes, machines, and capacity resource requirements.
• Coordination of labor resources to maintain on-time production requirements, utilization, and efficiency metrics.
• Interface with manufacturing personnel, purchasing personnel, etc. on material status and production planning issues.
• Maintain consistent reporting and production data entry. Assist Maintenance dept. with PM schedules and planned downtime.

Supply Chain:

• Material planning and coordinating logistical activities related to forecasting, procurement and on-time delivery of products sourced from suppliers.
• Develop, implement, and control the supply plan for finished goods supplied to other WAVE locations in considering demand, capacity, and materials availability constraints.
• Responsible for the analysis of sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material
• requirements.
• Manage raw material inventory, obsolescence inventory and scheduled cycle counting.
• Create and manage bill of materials for finished goods. Manage material rejects through suppliers.
• Collaborate with customer service, logistics, manufacturing, engineering, shipping, purchasing and vendors to achieve total customer experience.

Production:

• Support packaging, commodity and other purchasing related to the plant operations.
• Analyze automated data collection to evaluate and assess operations strategy, support operations management.
• Achieve monthly operating plan metrics for safety, quality, cost, inventory, and OEE%.
• Function as an adviser to WAVE manufacturing operations and external customers regarding customer claims and defects. Help the plant operations teams to investigate, resolve and effectively mitigate the claims to achieve Total Customer Experience.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience in production planning, Logistics, or related work in supply chain management. (2-3 years preferred but not required)
• Ability to work in a team environment where collaboration is necessary.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Advanced level skills in MS Excel and analytical skills are a plus
• Advanced SAP and/or BPCS functionality. SAP Business Warehouse & IBM Cognos skills are a plus
• Strong attention to detail, highly organized and capable of solving practical problems in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Commitment to delivering quality results and overcoming obstacles in a time-sensitive environment. Ability to prioritize multiple work streams while remaining calm in a fast-paced department.
• Ability to gain the trust of a team and guide their work. Excellent verbal and written communication. Ability to build relationships and the comfort to reach out to internal and external contacts to request information.

*Salary: salary is dependent on experience and will in the the range of $76,498-$114,811.

Equal Employment Opportunity

WAVE is an equal opportunity employer. It is our goal to ensure that hiring, transfer, promotion, compensation and discipline decisions are based on the job-related qualifications, abilities and performance of employees and applicants. The Company does not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on sex, race, color, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability or veteran status or any other reason prohibited by federal, state or local law