Production Planner

At Muncie Power, our products play a critical role in our society by powering the vehicles that develop key infrastructure, putting out dangerous fires, fixing the power lines that power our homes, and hauling away our garbage.

Every team member at Muncie Power understands how important the success of our customers is to their communities. And that inherent value is carried throughout each team to ensure we’re providing the best for our customers.

As the production planner, you are responsible for developing and executing the production schedule for the tank product line. A key aspect of your role is continuously identifying technical issues that affect the organization’s ability to meet the schedule, along with the development of sound, carefully considered solutions. Your problem-solving approach centers on proven systems and technologies, collaboration across functions, and recommendations that minimize organizational risk while maximizing the use of existing resources.

You are a trusted expert who is expected to deliver high-quality, accurate results while efficiently maintaining and enhancing existing organizational systems, processes, and standards.

• Analyze material availability, production requirements, sales (usage), and other variables to develop a production plan to meet distribution and customer delivery needs
• Plan, manage, and report on the production schedule and support machining cell schedules to achieve the company’s on-time delivery goals of manufactured material to distribution
• Monitor actual output versus the production schedule, identifying and communicating gaps and corrective actions
• Work closely with manufacturing, engineering, and support teams to create, manage, communicate, and report on the production schedule
• Reconcile the previous day’s output with planned work on a daily basis and adjust planning as needed
• Identify schedule risks, including manufacturing lead times, raw material lead times, machine cell capacity, maintenance, tooling, programming, labor availability, or other manufacturing issues that might impact the schedule
• Make recommendations for optimal or alternate lot sizes and routings, overtime, and outsourcing based on current or future schedule conditions
• Work with manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, and purchasing to develop and/or maintain the shop capacity plan by ensuring that routings, standards, run and setup times are routinely updated
• Update management with shop throughput and machine/cell utilization
• Schedule the workflow for each machining cell and operation based on established manufacturing sequences and lead times
• Coordinate with material handlers, shipping department, and support areas to ensure material availability for scheduled jobs and to track shipments to outsource operations
• Maintain raw material and manufactured part replenishment and inventory levels
• Help resolve inventory discrepancies as assigned
• Support the sales and operations process meetings to review service levels, performance against schedule, inventory strategy, supply plan to meet demand, and resource implications
• Expedite critical orders as required to meet customer needs
• Work with the continuous improvement team to identify opportunities to decrease inventory, improve customer service levels, eliminate unnecessary waste, and reduce total costs
• Participate in Lean events as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business administration, logistics, or related manufacturing or technical field, or an equivalent combination of related education and experience in a manufacturing environment, may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• A minimum of three (3) years of work experience in a manufacturing…