Demand Planning Coordinator

Job Title: Demand Planning Coordinator

Department: Demand Planning 

Summary

Responsible for carrying out the master production plan to satisfy customer demand while carrying minimum effective inventory, achieving timely completion of shop orders and ensuring effective utilization of resources. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Coordinate Demand Planning Team to ensure the timely release, process and distribution of manufacturing work orders.
• Work with Manufacturing Supervisors and Leads to execute weekly Production Plan using production schedules and management priority codes on the Power Link Dispatch screen.
• Monitor and update Team’s Schedule Attainment worksheet to monitor actual daily output versus the weekly production plan. Identify gaps and drive solutions, including component shortages and capacity issues.
• Timely reporting of key metrics such as daily absenteeism and actual schedule attainment per cell or work center.
• Daily communication with Manufacturing Manager, Manufacturing Supervisors, Manufacturing Engineers, Procurement, Shipping and Warehouse staff to evaluate potential production stoppages and shortages and how they affect the current schedule. 
• Calculate and establishes the daily production staff needs with Manufacturing Management. 
• Participate in evaluating manufacturing or procurement challenges, constraints and help develop solutions to overcome.
• In collaboration with the Manufacturing Team, drives continuous improvement to increase production quality and yields.
• Monitors customer orders, prioritizes and expedites as needed. 
• Works with customer service, sales, quality and supply chain as needed to resolve customer order issues. 
• Support Engineering and R&D in sustainment changes and new product development.
• Support Quality in FDA and ISO changes – Update Planning Work Instructions
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• MPSP Scheduling
• Finish Goods Release
• Closeout & Purge
• Other duties may be assigned

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or relevant experience
• 5+ years production scheduling experience in an ERP/MRP environment
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems, MAPICS, infor and Powerlink preferred
• Working computer skills in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint 
• And/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Ferno is an equal opportunity employer and that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran or disability status.