Production Planner

Good Life Begins With A Good Company. Champion Home Builders, Inc. wants YOU! We are seeking to hire an Assistant Production Manager to join our team in the Decatur, IN region. WHAT DO WE OFFER? 401k Plan with Company Match Paid Vacation Paid Holidays Medical Rx Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance. WHO IS CHAMPION HOME BUILDERS, INC.? For decades, Champion has served as a leader in the manufactured housing industry and one of the largest mobile and modular home builders in North America. Champion offers many factory-built solutions, from single-family and multi-family homes to commercial and government buildings. Our manufactured homes, modular homes, mobile homes, park models, and commercial modular buildings can be found throughout the United States and western Canada. Throughout the organization, we act with integrity and respect. We take pride in our craftsmanship and build strong relationships with our customers, suppliers, and our employees. We know that we would not be successful without our team. In return for hard work and dedication, our goal is to provide a safe, productive, and enjoyable workplace for every employee. Job Title: Production Planer - Decatur Hub FLSA Status: Exempt As a Production Planner , you will be an integral part of the production team, working closely with purchasing, the production team, and freight suppliers. You will take a leadership role in managing and optimizing work orders coming from customer plants, ensuring the seamless flow of work and materials through our manufacturing process, and managing the outflow of material through packaging and final shipping. You will play a major role in verifying the accuracy of the orders, optimizing the production schedule, while making sure raw material inventory is adequate. In addition to these responsibilities, you will assist the buyer in procuring direct and in working with accounts payables for the accounting of month end material inventory. We are seeking a candidate with a proven track record, strong attention to detail, strategic thinking abilities, and excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Daily interfaces with the production manager to provide the production schedule and the overall materials plan. Manages inventory of starting materials, WIP, and finished goods to support production activities. Monitors actual and forecasted consumption of materials and orders replenishment stock. Manages timely and efficient processing of orders through the procurement process. Interfaces with receiving plants weekly to assure order accuracy and develops weekly production forecast. Updates the pricing model based on new material and transportation costs. Monitors the status of open purchase orders including delivery and quality issues that may affect status. Reviews and evaluates safety stock levels, minimum order quantities, supplier, and QA lead times on a regular basis to identify continuous improvement opportunities including but not limited to inventory reductions. Manages production yield while minimizing scrap. Uses provided software to optimize component nesting from raw material. Manages all rejected/non-conforming material through the Material Disposition Process Tracks and reports production performance and interfaces with leadership on quality and throughput issues. Interfaces with Accounts Payables monthly to account for shop floor inventory. Provides support to Purchasing for credit issues with vendors. Coordinates the return of the material with QA, Purchasing, warehouse, and suppliers. Maintains complete and current knowledge of all material requirements, production processes, and issues affecting product availability, including special activities related to specific products and/or projects (for example, managing requests for special samples to support stability studies and global product registrations). Qualifications S. in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, or e…

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