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- Location
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- Type
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Production Planner
- Compensation
- USD 85,000–105,000 / year
- Posted
- 16D AGO
About the role
Description
Viken Detection is seeking a highly organized and proactive Production Planner to manage and optimize production schedules, material availability, and manufacturing workflow. This role is critical to ensuring on-time delivery, maximizing efficiency, and supporting our growing production operations.
The ideal candidate will have experience in production planning within a manufacturing environment, strong ERP/MRP system knowledge, and the ability to collaborate across operations, purchasing, manufacturing, and engineering teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Conduct material scenarios at top-level and sub-assembly stages to drive "clear to build" status and maintain the master production schedule.
- Create and manage build assemblies within the manufacturing ERP system to ensure accurate production tracking.
- Lead production updates in daily cross-functional Teams meetings, providing status on material availability and scheduling constraints.
- Run weekly production status meetings, with a focus on clear to build dates highlighting issues that need to be resolved to achieve ship dates.
- Run monthly SIOP meetings.
- Support the department in organizing procedures, records, and Lean manufacturing reports.
Requirements
- High School Diploma required; professional certifications (CPIM, CSCP, or ISM) or higher education strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of production planning or scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment with direct experience in MRP/ERP systems and Bill of Materials (BOM).
- Advanced Microsoft Excel (data analysis); strong understanding of Lean manufacturing principles and multitasking.
- Experience with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric preferred.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
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