Production Planner - Core Plant

Howmet Aerospace Inc. (NYSE: HWM), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries. Our primary businesses focus on jet engine components, aerospace fastening systems, titanium structural parts and forged wheels. With $7.4 Billion in revenue in 2024, our products play a crucial role in enabling fuel efficiency and light weighting, contributing to our customers' success and making a positive impact on the world.

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This PRODUCTION PLANNER position will be located at our new core facility in Whitehall, MI. The primary responsibilities include:

• Anticipation and forecasting – understands operation, maintenance and manufacturing rhythms; reviews and communicates customer demand and helps to prioritize and schedule work
• Measurement oriented – ensures schedule attainment, throughput, on time delivery, influences revenue, customer satisfaction, finished/shipped goods, etc.; tracks and plans according to customer furnished information and knowledge of internal capability and capacity; able to adjust as needed
• Relationship and communication – interacts with a wide variety of stakeholders; acts as liaison between customer and plant; facilitates understanding of customer priorities within the plant; galvanizes efforts to ensure goals are achieved.
• Organization and structure – detail and follow through oriented; manages and monitors inventory and information accurately; adjusts behind the scenes without causing visible disruption to customers; creates replicable processes and systems in response to emerging issues or opportunities; time conscious
• Ownership – tracks down information, people, requirements, or other necessary elements to ensure smooth operation with quality and speed; enables the success of others; advances a win together perspective and culture; driven
• Balanced attention – spends time in areas of greatest impact; asks "why?"; adjusts to customer demands and coordinates internal resources to deliver, often on short notice; creates plans to get things back on track when necessary; works closely with internal resources to align solutions
• Influence – persuades without direct reporting authority; represents interests and capabilities of plant to customers to control expectations and flow; can deliver disappointing news; broadens perspective of others; gains commitment from internal and external stakeholders
• Outcome interpreter – has strong intuition; able to understand different layers of complexity and priority for internal and external stakeholders; business minded toward plant outcomes; creates new levels of performance through understanding internal and external factors and combining them to synergistic effect

• Communicates with regular and prospective customers concerning requirements, talks with them regarding other customer service-related concerns, and answers any other questions. Fields and promptly responds to inquiries from customers regarding status of key projects, open orders, and any unresolved issues.
• Exercises direct responsibility for the tracking of open items, for quotation of changes to project work scope, for securing purchase order coverage, and for resolution of contractual issues delaying input or shipment of customer requirements.
• Processes orders for assigned account portfolio. This includes order entry/maintenance, order review, acknowledgment to the customer, and resolution of items delaying either release to manufacturing or shipments.
• Adjusts complaints concerning billing or service rendered, referring complaints of service failures to designated departments for investigation.
• Draws up master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data and…