POSITION SUMMARY: 

The Production Planner is responsible for planning and managing production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize DEUTZ’s productive capacity. The Production Planner will liaise with the Production Planning Manager and team members to fulfill production orders and needs. The ideal candidate must have a team spirit and be able to work with others effectively. Additionally, the production planner must have strong attention-to-detail and demonstrated organizational skills with the ability to set goals and objectives. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The ​Production Planner​ will be responsible for, but not limited to the following duties: 

• Manage, release and close production orders to align with demand signal (forecast, sales, and safety stock). 

• Plans and manages production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize DEUTZ’s productive capacity.  

• Improve effective scheduling process to achieve production objectives using capacity planning tool, Pro-tracker staged kits, and Production Schedule.  

• Analyze sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements.  

• Respond to termination or cancellation requests from Sales.  

• Review in-process orders from the production floor. 

• Receive and review sales orders against current requirements and work in process using the material requirement planning report. 

• Interfaces with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department, and supervisors on material status and production planning issues.  

• Reviews master production schedule and work orders  

• Establish and adjust priorities for specific customer orders. 

• Release work orders to departments denoting the number, type, and proposed completion date of units to be produced.  

• Revise schedule according to work order specifications, established priorities, and availability or capability of workers, parts, material, machines, and equipment.  

• Support the processing of Prototype builds as required (DCSC). 

• Provide support to the NPI process (DCSC). 

• Provide support to the area Supervisor for the implementation of new processes such as Lean Cell, TQM, Productivity Tracking, etc.  

• Provide support to Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Manager, and DEUTZ’s Production Management as required.  

• Establish work order start dates and communicates adjustments to Sales Admin, Program Managers, and Production personnel as needed.  

• Update late delivery report with Root Cause weekly. Establish economic order quantity and/or minimum stocking levels as necessary with input from Planning Manager. 

• Adjust part number internal lead times as needed.  

• Provide support in the training of employees.  

• Perform other duties as assigned. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:  N/A 

Travel Demands: Anticipated domestic and international travel is approximately 0-10% depending on business needs. 

QUALIFICATIONS:  

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

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED SKILLS: 

• Oral Communication - Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions. 

• Written Communication - Presents numerical data effectively; Able to read and interpret written information. 

• Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed. Gives appropriate recognition to others. 

• Ethics - Works with integrity and ethics; Upholds organizational values. 

• Adaptability - Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events. 

LANGUAGE ABILITY: 

​​Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Write routine reports and correspondence. Speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.​ 

MATHEMATICAL ABILITY: 

​​Add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Compute rate, ratio and percent, and draw and interpret bar graphs.​ 

REASONING ABILITY: 

​​Apply logical thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Deal with nonverbal symbolism (e.g., formulas and equations) in difficult phases. Deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.​ 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:   

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

• Manufacturing assembly and warehouse environment.  Subject to noise, dust, diesel fuel, oil, and extreme hot/cold temperatures.   No A/C.   

• If employee is located in the office area, the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:   

An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.