Associate Planning Manager Jobs in Texas (NOW HIRING)

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

Establishes, manages, reviews and maintains the master production schedule to ensure timely manufacture of finished goods in the right priorities to achieve acceptable customer service, planned inventory turn goals and effective utilization of available capacity internally and outsourced. This position will supervise the planning and order management personnel.  Will ensure all operations are in accordance with established specifications, schedules and budgets to achieve maximum standards of quality and customer service, in alignment with set objectives.  Answer related inquiries for all levels of the organization.  This position has a close working relationship with the plant operations management, manufacturing floor leads, sales, product engineering and accounting groups.  Individual must be able to analyze data from many sources and make timely, intelligent decisions based on this information to ensure a balance of plant level loading, meeting customer requests for product, and maximizing inventory turns.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Apply Lean Manufacturing principles in the operations planning process.
2. Creates master schedule from customer sales orders and/or forecast to ensure timely manufacture and on-time shipment of product.
3. Maintains master schedule to ensure adequate internal plant capacity and personnel resources available to support production requirements and customer delivery dates by daily review of critical work center loads.
4. Pro-actively identifies capacity constraints, which will have an adverse impact on customer service and/or manufacturing efficiencies.  Makes recommendations on where and when increased capacity may be required to support customer demand.
5. Pro-actively communicates changes in the master schedule to all appropriate personnel to ensure materials and manufacturing resources are available to support those changes.
6. Pro-actively notifies appropriate personnel and departments of known or potential material shortages.
7. Pro-actively notifies appropriate personnel and departments of known or potential inability to meet customer delivery requirements.
8. Coordinates and prioritizes production schedules to achieve an acceptable level of customer service.
9. Leads daily production meeting and coordinates follow-up actions to support production.
10. Works closely with Maysteel IT group to develop reports and other tools to provide proper information to make effective decisions.
11. Works with buyers to develop consignment, JIT, SMI, KanBan and other stocking and replenishment programs.
12. Manages and implements internal KanBan levels and programs including regular review of parts to either pull from or add to KanBan program depending on usage levels and customer commitment.
13. Works closely with appropriate personnel and departments to develop and implement shop floor control procedures to ensure accurate inventories maintained.
14. Coordinates transition of production and materials between facilities.
15. Works with Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales to ensure effective transition of EC changes. 
16. Coaches and trains direct reports as needed
17. Works proficiently in MRPII.
18. Works with Supply Chain group to develop relationships with suppliers for purchased components.
19. Facilitate SOP and Scorecard meetings.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: 

Requires a Bachelors Degree in business, operations management or similar field with 5-7 years of directly related experience; or an Associate Degree with more than 10 years of progressively responsible, directly related experience; or a combination of education and experience equivalent to these.  Accuracy is essential to this position. MBA and/or CPIM certification a plus.

Must possess demonstrated knowledge of Lean Principles in Manufacturing and willing the champion lean initiatives throughout the plant in the area of operations planning. 

Must possess the ability to read, analyze and interpret business and technical documents, flow charts, budget information, procedure manuals and so on; the ability to prepare required routine reports and correspondence; ability to communicate effectively with others, using skill and diplomacy and have the ability to work with all levels of the organization.

SCOPE:

This position is responsible for making sure Maysteel meets our customer delivery commits through the effective scheduling of plant resources.  This position works independently with little supervision.  The position has direct reports in planning and PIC specific to the manufacturing plant where they have responsibility.   Little travel required.

COMPETENCIES:

Ambiguity – Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up I the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Composure – Is cool under pressure; does not become defensive or irritated when times are tough; is considered mature; can be counted on to hold things together during tough times; can handle stress; is not knocked off balance by the unexpected; doesn’t show frustration when resisted or blocked; is a settling influence in a crisis.

Customer Focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Command Skills –Relishes leading; takes unpopular stand if necessary; encourages direct and tough debate but isn’t afraid to end it and move on; is looked to for direction in a crisis; faces adversity head on; energized by tough challenges.

Conflict Management –Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.

Planning –Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into the process steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.