Manager Production Planning

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Harris Technologies is hiring for a Manager, Production Planning. This position is responsible for the proper use and functioning of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) manufacturing planning system. This includes MRP (Material Requirements Planning), production work order release, material allocations, BOM’s, capacity and load planning, Production Master Schedule execution and direct owner of OTD (On Time Delivery) metrics. Management of daily activities and standard work of salaried and hourly production planners, coordinators and Operations Program Managers (OPM’s).

• Use Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to schedule project-based demand, balancing schedule needs with existing demands and shop floor capacity.
• Manage demand against constrained work centers and provide demand forecast reports to management. Make recommendations for capacity planning based on current and forecast demands.
• Maintain inputs for active schedule management and balance ongoing project mitigations with the overall production schedule. Includes inputs associated with dates, quantities, configuration, job order creation, and changes to existing job orders.
• Maintain interface between MRP system and the Product Scheduling/Status system. Ensure material demands support program schedules while balancing production with available capacity. Process Work Authorization (WA) and Program Directive (PD) documents ensuring adherence to scheduling system, project grouping strategy, configuration control and approval guidelines.
• Manage impact and implement changes from Engineering Change Notices (ECN)
• Manage inventory and open orders for all assemblies related to assigned projects including project transfer request approvals, transfer-payback activity, excess/inactive/obsolete inventory reconciliation and open job order maintenance.
• Provide ongoing management of special MRP demand inputs including, Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs), Final Acceptance Orders (FAOs), and Blocking Jobs to ensure time-phased requirements meet program needs while mitigating excess demands.
• Schedule compression and critical path mitigation.
• Manages the work order process to include revision control, material availability, work order release, start and completion date maintenance, material allocation changes, Work Center labor requirements, material and labor variance analysis, and released BOM’s and routers.
• Assist Work Centers in dispatch report management and execution, work order prioritization and schedule management.
• Manage and execute project production schedules to meet the Master Schedule and contract delivery dates.
• Acts as System’s leader and champions improvements to processes, systems and solutions. Maintains and report Key Performance Indicators. Rolls up performance data and metrics into…