Production Planner

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Where is the work:

On-Site (5 days)

 

 

What's in it for you:

Trane Technologies is hiring a Production Planner in Grand Rapids, MI. In this role, you will prepare schedules for shipping and receiving materials to control flow of goods, implement materials handling procedures, and monitor the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources. You will also oversee the maintenance of inventory control systems that track the status of purchase orders, inventory levels, and production requirements. Interprets inventory requests, production schedules, orders, and other documents to co-ordinate materials handling activities with the organization's current and anticipated demand for goods and materials.
 

What you will do:

• Coordinate material requirements.

• Establish production manufacturing priorities for the customer demands consistent with master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and service level goal.

• Develop new product group schedules with requirement of the manufacturing build schedule.

• Implement production tools for building to actual customer demands, Kanbans, prioritizing builds, expediting and automating transactions per Lean concepts.

• Manage aftermarket planning.

• Manage rejected and rework product planning.

• Coordinate manufacturing activities and monitors schedule performance against plan to maintain priorities and meet established schedules.

• Meet daily with cross-functional team to resolve delayed customer shipments, component shortages, overtime, priorities, and identified problems.

• Work the critical shortage reports on a daily basis and updates the appropriate cause codes for service level reporting. Identifies and resolves problems.

• Participate in identification and recommends disposition of obsolete and surplus assembly inventory.

 

What you will bring:

• Bachelor's degree preferred OR 2-5 years of relative experience required in lieu of degree.

• APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) preferred.

• Experience with rate based or flow line (non-MRP) and job shop manufacturing environments.

• At least two years’ experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and lean manufacturing processes.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:

$56,300.00 - $101,394.99

Compensation Type:

Salary

Incentive Eligible:

No

Sales Commission Eligible:

No

Disclaimer: We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience,  travel requirements, and union designation.   Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country.  Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

Safety Sensitive Role:

Yes

The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.