Production Planner at Ecolab

Job description

Job Overview:

The Production Planner is responsible for delivering detailed production schedules that enable the purchasing to procure the correct materials and production to execute the correct volumes at the right time – in order to meet the demand of the various divisions. The successful candidate will be required to optimize the planning and purchasing requirements in an effort to meet service, cost, and inventory goals.

Main Responsibilities:

• Being aware of production constraints and organizing regular meeting with production teams, delivering a daily, weekly and monthly production plan.
• Follow-up on output results in relation to plan, making necessary adaptations in conjunction with production management, customer care and purchasing
• Ensure that forecasts are received timeously, and that their accuracy is continuously improved upon.
• Maintain and report on production planning metrics. Ensure they are published timeously, and work toward continuous improvement plans
• Work with suppliers and third party manufacturers, to meet plan delivery date and quantity requirements to optimize service, inventory and cost.
• Ensure that out of stocks and back orders are highlighted in advance to relevant stakeholders. Communicating effectively and timeously is critically important.
• Work towards continuously improving the MRP system that is utilized – bring innovation with an aim to improving efficiency in the areas of generating material requirments.
• Utilize timely and effective communication of issues in purchasing materials that may result in poor plan adherence. This includes providing daily updates to advise both internal and external personnel regarding supplier and open purchase order status exceptions, identifying appropriate re-planning and/or recommended courses of action to minimize non-conformances.
• Control inventory levels to agreed parameters
• Manage/follow-up on at risk (slow moving and obsolete) materials
• Cooperate with Sales/Marketing on matters of product launches and product eliminations
• Achieve KPI’s to support the organization’s service, working capital, and cost goals. Provide formal and informal reporting on plant performance such as back-orders, plan adherence, and inventory results.
• Effectively communicate, collaborating with suppliers, internal plant personnel, planning, and Supply Chain management
• Compile all the necessary reporting information required to conduct S&OP meetings – in accordance with Ecolab global requirements

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applicable Supply Chain Planning or Procurement experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial or Chemical Engineering, or Commerce with experience in a chemical manufacturing environment
• Experience with common ERP and planning/materials management/procurement systems and MS Office, primarily Excel
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a plant manufacturing environment
• A trusted partner at more than one million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources. With 2016 sales of $13 billion and 48,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimize water and energy use and improve operational efficiencies for customers in the food, healthcare, energy, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.