Production Planning Manager - Steel America;

Production Planning Manager – Steel America (Job )

Base pay: $/hr – $/hr

The Production Planning Manager is a key management role that is responsible for planning, preparing, and managing production schedules utilizing various systems to ensure development and adherence to a master schedule. Additionally, the position oversees the development and implementation of relevant planning procedures, policies and working practices through all areas of responsibility and will regularly interface with various departments and teams across the organization to ensure on‑time delivery of fabrication projects.

Position is responsible for aligning Planning’s daily operations to departmental, divisional, and corporate‑level strategic goals while providing personnel management responsibilities to the Planning team (hiring, performance management, workforce development, coaching/counselling/disciplinary, etc.). The position is located onsite in Norfolk, VA and may require hours beyond a standard work week to support business operations, as needed. Position may require limited travel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage planning department operations and support personnel to develop detailed schedules, material requirements, and production plans for complex production/manufacturing projects.
• Develop, implement, train, and oversee planning’s best practices, policies/procedures, instructions, and daily work tasking while standardizing and documenting processes through CSI’s Quality Management System while supporting the division’s continuous‑improvement goals.
• Implement systems and operations to optimize utilization of the division’s assets, resources, and workforce.
• Develop and provide accurate metrics and reporting to company leadership, various business units, and customers (as required) and regularly communicate project progress against plans while identifying and resolving conflicts/roadblocks.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Develop, oversee, and ensure execution of production schedules, based on the master schedule, to schedule sequence and lead time of each operation to meet identified completion dates in accordance with established manufacturing sequences and lead times.
• Plan, prepare, issue and control production schedules of multiple, simultaneous projects and coordinate all material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of approved materials to meet production schedule requirements.
• Coordinate with various manufacturing personnel and departments to ensure production plans are executed in accordance with the master schedule, including Quality, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, etc.
• Perform key responsibilities utilizing the enterprise resource planning tools, material requirement planning system, and various other business systems. This role will maximize utilization of existing business software and research additional software solutions.
• Troubleshoot operating problems, research acceptable solutions from a business perspective, and implement the selected solutions.
• Implement and manage engineering changes and their impact to master schedules through Engineering Modification Reports, update existing Production Orders and Production Bills of Material (PBOM).
• May assist in the development of customer proposals, bids, or price quotations and other duties as assigned.

• Position requires bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience must include management‑level support of production planning, including logistics, purchasing, material management, and production processes.
• Well‑developed skills working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) programs such as CostPoint, SAP, Floor2
  
  Plan, and command of Microsoft Office suite – specifically Excel, Word, Outlook.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, production planning, bill of materials, shop floor controls, and costing principles.
• Ability to read and interpret technical documents, including production drawings.
• Ability to develop and utilize relational databases in a business environment with demonstrated analytical and quantitative…