Job Information
Shaw Industries Inc Production Planner in Andalusia, Alabama
Job Title
Production Planner
Position Overview
Shaw Industries is sourcing for a dynamic Production Planner at Shaw plant 65 to interact directly with other departmental managers and plant managers in the accomplishment of support, scheduling, and through-put improvement objectives in the manufacturing process. The Production Planner is responsible for all necessary forecasting, planning, assigning, reporting, and follow up for all departmental functions.
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec , Shaw Floors, Patcraft , Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass , Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more .
Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide.
Responsibilities:
Create YMOs based on Purchase Orders sent to the Plant from Divisional Planning for both Extrusion, Twisting and Heatset.
Work with Divisional Planning on prioritization of orders to meet customer needs.
Communicates with supervisors and department managers production planning changes.
Integrates planned and unplanned equipment downtime into schedule with minimize impact to schedule.
Balance load on equipment based on priorities, inventory, demand and automation capability.
Begin and End lots in different departments.
Supervises Scheduler daily work activities.
Work with Scheduler to ensure concentrate inventories are at needed levels and color concentrate is ordered as needed. Ensure color concentrate is allocated among multiple in process and upcoming lots in Extrusion.
Work collaboratively with each department to meet customer needs.
Work with IT and planning teams to help develop automated solutions and maintain current systems for shop floor production, scheduling and planning.
Oversee efforts to eliminate or reduce amount of left-over inventory in each department.
Communicate with Shipping any special requirements or expediting of material.
Generate information based on inventory, shipments, expected production and actual production as needed.
Maintain manual inventory count of in process production carts among departments where automated production cart information is not available.
Collaborate with automation team to make sure the system is performing effectively.
Estimate start time in Twist to develop automation carts are delivered when needed
Manage cart count balance between processes to ensure imbalances are not created
Estimate process rates and adjust buggy schedules as needed to prevent storage areas to not exceed capacity
Balances Extrusion positions to Twisting quadrants to prevent late deliveries or overscheduling based on mass balance among processes and inventory.
Required Competencies:
Demonstrate Inclusive Leadership
Demonstrate Customer Orientation
Build a Successful Team
Lead Change
Requirements:
· Bachelor's degree or HS/GED with 5-year production leadership experience.
Shaw b enefits include:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Life insurance and disability coverage
Tuition reimbursement
Employee assistance program
Health savings account
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
401K and Retirement Plans
Product discounts for employees
Adoption a ssistance
Work Shift
8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM
Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.