Production Planner

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**Role Overview**:
The Production Planner will be responsible for establishing the production plans in both short and long term to ensure all customer orders are executed efficiently and on time. A key success of the role is to align procurement activity to inventory levels to match peaks and troughs in demand. The result will be an operation that meets 100% DIFOT whilst focusing on reducing Primary working capital (PWC) and minimising obsolete stock.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with purchasing officers and customer service team to use forecast data to develop and maintain an efficient, achievable production plan.
- Monitor and maintain leadtime report and communicate constraints to production supervisor.
- Confirm dispatch dates.
- Analyse resource requirements (manpower, tools, equipment, parts)
- Monitor employee resource capacity and employee availability
- Maintain material and manufactured products inventory levels to meet production and customer requirements
- Build, lead, maintain and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Strive to improve communication relationships between Sales, Procurement and Operations
- Use business intelligence and sales forecasts to generate projected material demands and prime the supply pipeline to support realisation of customer orders.
- Communicate forecasted demand into the Procurement team to ensure orders are placed with enough lead time for supply
- Run the Work order MRP to generate demand and manage the Master production and dispatch schedule for all the value stream activities
- Create and backflush all work orders daily
- Where a production delay occurs, develop an action plan with the Supervisor and advise Customer service of any impacts to minimise impacts to the customer
- Closely coordinate and communicate customer requirement changes to Procurement that may affect supply so that optimum supply chain costs are maintained
- Responsible for ensuring we have the right products, at the right place, and at the right time to meet our customers’ needs
- Actively participate and support MDI activities and KPI’s.
- Assist with conducting Stocktaking activities when required
- Physically fit
- Good inter-personal skills
- Team player
- Accurate
- Able to work unsupervised with integrity and trust
- Desire to do a precise and thorough job
- Demonstrated commitment to reliability and punctuality
- Committed to completing customer jobs according to schedule
- Excellent internal and external customer service focus
- Be flexible to respond to the needs of the business
- Willing to learn and take direction
- Pro-active approach
- Self-motivated, able to use initiative

**Vocational Requirements**:

- Minimum Requirement- Certificate / Diploma in Production Planning, Supply Chain & Logistics
- Min 3+ yrs in a direct Production Planning role
- Demonstrated analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrate a knowledge of Supply Chain, S&OP and the demand planning principles
- Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts;
- Demonstrable experience in working with MRP interpreting demand
- Demonstrable experience developing production schedules based on inputs from S&OP processes
- Solid understanding of Bill of Materials
- Advanced skills in excel advanced functions such as Vlookups, Pivot tables etc
- Ability to work as part of a team, with or without constant supervision

Preferred- Master’s in supply chain or Production / Demand Planning
- Caliach experience
- Project Management experience
- Experience managing internal communications and working across different departments

**Core Competence**:

- Culture**Functional Competencies**:
**Analyzing and Reporting**

**Decision Making/Judgment**

**Making Accurate Judgements And Decisions**

**Strategic Thinking/Management**

**Driving Projects to Completion**

EnerSys provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.