About Trident Seafoods.
Trident Seafoods is North America's largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with global operations in 6 countries and serves customers in almost 60 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington (USA), Trident employs approximately 7,700 people worldwide each year and partners with over 2,700 independent fishermen and crewmembers in Alaska. Trident catches and processes virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also encompasses cultured and wild species sourced from an international network of trusted suppliers.
Summary: The Production Planner II will be responsible for managing short-term production plans and long-term capacity assessment across all value-added plants for Trident Seafoods’ domestic business.
Essential Functions:
- Develop production plans over a rolling 3-month horizon to deliver superior customer service while managing inventory levels.
- Review Capacity to Demand ratio over a rolling 12-month horizon to drive plant efficiency while delivering inventory goals.
- Schedule and lead weekly cross functional production planning and S&OE meetings
- Own Production planning metrics: Schedule Adherence and Capacity Utilization
- Collaborate with plants weekly to ensure we optimize schedules based on customer/SKU priorities, RM availability and safety stock goals
- Proactively review future risk (to service or utilization) and communicate with Commercial and Operational leads.
- Schedule and participate in monthly RCCP meetings – clearly communicate utilization and inventory build over the horizon.
- Propose stepwise improvements to existing processes
- Call out and propose solutions when identifying MRP discrepancies
- Modify existing analytics tools within Excel as needed
- Propose improvements to analytics tools within IBP
- Work with plants to create and maintain a master list of production line capacities
- Monitor and report out plant schedule adherence (PSA)
- Regularly works onsite to build strong team connections, collaborate across functions, and solve problems in real time.
The essential functions listed above are not exhaustive. The organization may assign other duties as needed to meet business requirements. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Compensation & Benefits:
This is a salaried exempt position with an annualized salary range of $90,000 to $115,000.
Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. Full time employees may be eligible for discretionary/performance-based incentives, medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, disability programs, basic life and AD&D, and a 401(k) plan with a company match, paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For full-time employees, the initial PTO benefit starts at 20 days per year, adjusted commensurate with relevant experience, front loaded on the first of the year, initially prorated quarterly based on hire date. Commuter programs are also available.
More information can be found at https://www.tridentseafoods.com/benefits.
