Join Plymouth Tube, a company with over 100 years of manufacturing excellence, where your planning expertise will directly impact customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and business success.
As a Site Planner, you will play a critical role in balancing customer demand, production capacity, inventory levels, and raw material availability. Working closely with operations, sales, purchasing, and finance, you'll help ensure the right materials are available at the right time to keep our mill running efficiently and our customers satisfied.
Position Summary
The Site Planner sets the daily and weekly production schedule that best aligns with customer needs, mill capability, and overall goals of Plymouth Tube Co. Additionally, the Planner uses the longer term capacity plan to provide sales with production lead times for new orders that take into consideration existing orders, projected orders, and raw material lead times. The Planner manages raw material quoting, purchasing, and supplier relationships to secure competitive pricing, ensure on-time delivery, and maintain consistent quality in accordance with Plymouth’s internal quality standards. The Site Planner tracks the daily and weekly schedule adherence, inventory turns, order backlog and prioritization (in conjunction with sales). The Site Planner plays a key role in Plymouth’s S&OP process.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- Adheres to and models all site and corporate Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory requirements
- Ensures supply of material to support demand which may include assisting in resolving shortages, assisting in allocations of limited materials, and preventing potential schedule interruptions
- Ensure gaps in ability to supply are addressed, scenarios established and issues appropriately escalated
- Works with manufacturing to help create production plans that meets inventory targets for finished goods and customer requested delivery dates
oSets the weekly production schedule which is approved by mill operations
oAdjusts the daily production schedule based off of previous day’s results and anticipated capacity requirements for the remainder of the week
- Analyzes schedule adherence, inventory and forecasting performance and identifies process improvements
- Participates in weekly planning meetings in addition to monthly Supply Reviews as part of the S&OP process
- Supports introduction of new products and product discontinuation
- Works cross functionally with all areas of the business, i.e.: Sales & Marketing, Finance, Operations, Demand Planning and Purchasing to solve problems and identify business improvement opportunities
- Leverage system settings and parameters to drive planning efficiency
- Communicates supply position to the business and performs “what if” analyses as required
- Maintains planning system and master data integrity as well as keeps assigned documentation updated following all departmental policies, corporate procedures and work instructions
- Contributes to business process definition and documentation and generally supports Supply Chain performance improvement plans
- Manages and controls the finished goods supply to ensure customer demand fulfillment is balanced with service, delivery and inventory
- 70/30 planning/purchasing.
Key Metric Accountability (Tracks and Owns Status)
- Daily schedule adherence (at the mill order level) •Weekly schedule adherence (at the mill order level and in absolute feet for key plant resources)
- Order backlog by days past due, value, order quantity
- Order backlog by key resource and absolute feet
- Inventory turns
Supervisory Responsibilities
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Desired: Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain management or Business Management plus 1+ years of Supply Chain/Master Scheduling experience
–OR—
3+ years progressive experience in Supply Chain/Master Scheduling role with proven and documented success in lieu of a degree
–OR—
Commensurate experience within a discrete manufacturing environment similar to a Plymouth Tube mill
- ASCM (APICS) certification preferred or attained within the first year in the role
Additional Requirements
- Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement experience a must
- ERP System experience a plus
- Ability to work within and experience with MRP and Shop floor Control Systems
- Proficiency with MS Office applications (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, advanced Excel)
- Demonstrates proficiency in use of a computer and various programs—including Microsoft Excel.
- Understands how to document production goals and deviations from these goals on a regular basis.
- Shows the ability to understand customer demand and how to optimize production schedules to meet customer demand.
- Acts as a liaison between vendors, customers, laborers and other departments within the company.
- Works efficiently under pressure and helps motivate employees to meet demands.
Competencies/Desired Characteristics
Core Competencies
- Care & Commitment: Consistently reliable, follows work instructions, investigates any inconsistencies and looks ahead to next steps. Offers ideas for improvements (safety, operations, process, and quality) and actively participates in improvement processes. Accepts change as part of future state improvement and adapts with positive enthusiasm.
- Team Player: Steps up to help the team even when it’s outside of normal duties or comfort zone, looks out for the safety of self and team. Cooperates with others without dominating the group, values team members for their contributions and professional abilities, and always treats people with respect. Communicates ideas respectfully, honestly and clearly, and considers the suggestions and opinions of others
- Customer Focus: Seeks out information on customer requirements, stops a process when an inconsistency is suspected, and reports inconsistencies to the right person. Involves customers and seeks best resource before moving forward with key decisions;follows through on promises made to internal/external customer. Delivers accurate product, services and paperwork to the next operation
- Initiative: Initiate’s problem solving to address issues, acts without being told or directed, actively participates in resolution, seeks best alternative even if it challenges the status quo. Does and says the right things for the right reasons even when it’s uncomfortable, speaks up immediately when seeing a safety hazard, a process error, or problem to resolve. Acts with sense of urgency: Gives immediate attention to tasks or issues that prevent organization from reaching goals, rethinks priorities and organizes work to achieve goals or get goals back on track.
- Safety: Participates in safety efforts enthusiastically, always with an eye for achieving the very best, approaches auditing with a commitment toward learning and improving equally. Consistently looks for opportunities to improve the safety culture, shows sincere interest in the improvement of safety in the organization above and beyond requirements. Actively drives culture where safety is more important than achieving numbers or reaching goals.
Job Specific Competencies
- Scheduler: Adept at scheduling the full facility, process to process, throughout the site. Identifies the site bottlenecks and prioritizes the flow of materials through production constraints. Maintains adequate materials supply, performing audits and looking ahead to adjust accordingly, communicates with the right people to ensure proper schedule. Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
- Judgement: Uses common sense when discerning priorities, demonstrates sound decision making when approaching decisions with critical impact. Grasp’s business cycle and its requirements, is process and detail oriented, absorbs new information quickly. Earns trust of others, does not cut corners ethically, does what is “right” not what is expedient.
- Operations: Demonstrates sound knowledge of the production process from start to finish, proficient in the technical requirements of position (systems and visual), continues to improve skills in this area. Effective in planning manpower and resources to achieve hourly, daily and weekly goals, resolves issues or roadblocks immediately. Adapts plans quickly when priorities change, effectively communicates changes, holds others and self-accountable in achieving goals regardless of changing environment
- Involvement: Works effectively with all levels of organization to help them understand metrics and organizational data, interprets into a relatable format. Improves costs and/or spending by analyzing, making suggestions in production and non-production categories. Provides leadership for special projects and/or any cost cutting problem solving events, adept at running meetings
Working Conditions/Physical Requirements
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Such accommodations will be reviewed by management on a case-by-case basis. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:
minority/female/disability/veteran
Equal Opportunity Employer: Disability/Veteran
