Production Planning Coordinator

Full Time

GPR Company, Inc. Fairfield, NJ

 

 

Role and Responsibilities

The role of the Production Planning coordinator is to ensure that all new Customer orders are properly initiated within the overall production schedule to satisfy the commitments to all customer demands. This includes the review with management to determine commitments, job creation based on that review, the review and release of manufactured component jobs to support top level demands, and to initiate the execution of those jobs based on scheduled start dates.

Key duties/responsibilities of the Production Planning Coordinator, including, but not limited to:

• Reviews all new customer orders with Management to determine commit dates and quantities.
• Enters all Top Level and Component inventory jobs for all Production requirements.
• Prints and prepares all Job documentation (Traveler/Drawings) for release to the floor.
• Production Liaison to the Engineering team as it applies to the review of all Job drawings/documents to ensure proper revision levels, work center locations, and material call outs are correct.
• Coordinates the release of material to the floor through the review of the Job start dates.
• Manages the update and redistribution of Job Documentation when revision changes are initiated.

 Other duties may be assigned relative to experience and company needs or as required. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

Minimum Education:

•    High School Graduate or equivalent GED.
•    Preferred degree or certificate in production management.

Minimum Qualifications:  

•   Minimum 1 to 3 years’ experience in project management in a manufacturing environment.
•   Working experience in formal ERP systems. Epicor 10 experience preferred.
•   Must be able to interpret customer engineering specifications and/or drawings to determine product and quality requirements.
•   Should have strong communication and organizational skills. Excellent communicator with ability to read, write and speak fluent English.
•   Analytical skills and the ability to skillfully plan and organize functions.

 

Language Skills 

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisors, managers, and customers.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form, and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; and use hands or fingers, handle or feel.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and sometimes loud.  

 

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, send your resume via email to hr@gprco.com or by fax to 973-747-3212

 

 

GPR Company, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer