Associate, Production Planning

About the job

Job Title: Associate, Production Planning

Job Location: Waco, TX

Job Description:

Serve as a liaison between Operations and Program Management in support program requirements and milestones.

Professional with broad theoretical job knowledge of material coordination and processes.

Works under minimal direction and guidance within standard processes for non-routine tasks.

Communicates and coordinates within own team as well as other organizations to provide solutions to problems within the supply chain.

Contributes to systems and process changes in work routines.

Works to achieve operational targets that impact team results.

Essential Functions:

• Advise management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials and services are provided as needed to achieve milestone completions.

• Coordinate the production and/or purchase of components to support the master production schedule, shop work load and inventory requirements.

• Utilize prior experience to identify risks and opportunities regarding material availability to ensure success of the production plan and maintain finish date integrity.

• Must track multiple projects with varying complexity to completion with limited supervision assistance.

• Communicate status and needs with crossfunctional teams including various internal and external customers (i.e. quality assurance, manufacturing, procurement, engineering, inventory control, etc.)

• Schedule and expedite the movement of parts by means of move orders; stock transfers and requests for shipping orders.

Qualifications:

To be eligible, applicants must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration or related field or have completed their bachelor’s degree within the last 12 months, regardless of age.