Job Title

Production Planner

Position Overview

Shaw Industries is sourcing for a dynamic Production Planner at Shaw plant 65 to interact directly with other departmental managers and plant managers in the accomplishment of support, scheduling, and through-put improvement objectives in the manufacturing process. The Production Planner is responsible for all necessary forecasting, planning, assigning, reporting, and follow up for all departmental functions.

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more.   

 

Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide. 

Responsibilities:

Create YMOs based on Purchase Orders sent to the Plant from Divisional Planning for both Extrusion, Twisting and Heatset.

Work with Divisional Planning on prioritization of orders to meet customer needs.

Communicates with supervisors and department managers production planning changes.

Integrates planned and unplanned equipment downtime into schedule with minimize impact to schedule.

Balance load on equipment based on priorities, inventory, demand and automation capability.

Begin and End lots in different departments.

Supervises Scheduler daily work activities.

Work with Scheduler to ensure concentrate inventories are at needed levels and color concentrate is ordered as needed. Ensure color concentrate is allocated among multiple in process and upcoming lots in Extrusion.

Work collaboratively with each department to meet customer needs.

Work with IT and planning teams to help develop automated solutions and maintain current systems for shop floor production, scheduling and planning.

Oversee efforts to eliminate or reduce amount of left-over inventory in each department.

Communicate with Shipping any special requirements or expediting of material.

Generate information based on inventory, shipments, expected production and actual production as needed.

Maintain manual inventory count of in process production carts among departments where automated production cart information is not available.

Collaborate with automation team to make sure the system is performing effectively.

Estimate start time in Twist to develop automation carts are delivered when needed

Manage cart count balance between processes to ensure imbalances are not created

Estimate process rates and adjust buggy schedules as needed to prevent storage areas to not exceed capacity

Balances Extrusion positions to Twisting quadrants to prevent late deliveries or overscheduling based on mass balance among processes and inventory.

Required Competencies:

Demonstrate Inclusive Leadership

Demonstrate Customer Orientation

Build a Successful Team

Lead Change

Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree or HS/GED with 5-year production leadership experience.

Shaw benefits include: 

Medical, dental, and vision insurance 

Life insurance and disability coverage 

Tuition reimbursement 

Employee assistance program 

Health savings account 

Paid Time Off 

Parental Leave 

401K and Retirement Plans 

Product discounts for employees 

Adoption assistance 

Work Shift

8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM

Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.