Each Sales and Production Planner is responsible for producing the daily and weekly production schedule and extended 12 week forecast for one of Mountaire's processing plants as assigned.  This role is responsible for balancing and clearly communicating the available capacity, raw material availability, and warehousing and transportation capacities for immediate and future demand to satisfy all customer orders for their plant.  The Production Planner must produce clear and detailed schedules in a timely manner to provide the Production, Transportation, Sales and Procurement teams with the information needed to meet customer order fulfillment and service expectations at world-class levels of performance.

 

Duties/Activities Required by Job        

Produce the Master Schedule to drive all supply, production and demand activities.  Schedules must be updated and published for each shift of production. Schedule changes required must be immediately communicated to all affected departments.  Schedule prioritization must take place in a manner that promotes operational efficiency while ensuring that customer delivery times are adhered to and that order fill rate is maintained.  Clear, effective communication is required. Courteous and professional communication is required at all times.  Production Planner will interact with members of management from floor supervisor to company Executives.  Planner will provide direction to sales team regarding product availability and communicate order adjustment needs, address challenges regarding truck timing with sales and transportation teams, ultimately assuring that production and shipping have sufficient time to produce and load the product and that it will deliver within an acceptable window for the receiving customer.  Additionally, Planner will communicate packaging changes, needs, or fluctuations in mix that are uncommon and could result in stock outs and provide feedback to the live operations team in regards to bird weights.  Strong people skills are needed as limited resources and time are available and often compromises and trade-offs are required to make the schedule successful. Schedules must be accurate and meet the expectations of customers, both external and internal.  Competitive KPI's including on time loading, order fill rate, and production accuracy are measured.  Planners are responsible for identifying trends, both positive and negative, and working with sales, operations, shipping, and/or transportation to address issues and adjust goals.  This includes but is not limited to root cause analysis, defining and implementing corrective actions and preventive measures, and fostering clear and open communication across multiple business units.  Customer expectations must be met considering the constraints, capacities and capabilities of internal customers and business partners Understanding the limitations for production capacities and transportation capabilities is critical to produce an efficient schedule that is competitive but attainable.  Over-scheduling production should be avoided to reduce rushed efforts.  All members of Mountaire's team maintain the highest level of safety and must follow all safety rules and wear appropriate PPE as required. Ongoing efforts with Sales, Transportation, Procurement, Production, Accounting and other teams present opportunities to develop long-term improvements in the design and execution of the Sales and Operations Plan as it is reflected in the schedule.  This requires ongoing continuous improvement efforts to improve the plan and processes within the schedule to become more effective and efficient.  The Production Planner is heavily involved in future coordination of layout changes, product development and customer products for their plant.  Planners are responsible for identifying changes in customer order patterns that will result in modifications to direct shipments and/or intra-company transfers.

Educations/Experience Requirements    
    

Associate's degree or equivalent work experience in Production, Logistics, Warehousing, Sales and Supply Chain 1-3 years relevant work experience in Production planning, scheduling or other work requiring effective critical thinking and communication skills Scheduling, Planning, Inventory Management, Transportation, Warehousing, Logistics, Supervision, Microsoft Business Suite