Senior Planner

The Senior Planner will performs senior-level Production Planning activities which will include: planning production volumes and priorities based on real customer/stakeholder requirements, while ensuring that the necessary materials for such plans are always compliantly available to support optimum production flow. As a senior role providing mentoring and structure for more junior members of the materials function is expected.

• Fostering a culture of compliance by operating within guidelines and procedures, leading by example, and focusing on risk assessment & elimination.
• Driving both the long term and short term capacity plans for each Manufacturing line. Always representing the customer internally.
• Managing Material Supply to ensure Manufacturing commitments are achieved as well as Corporate and Plant objectives. Providing timely and appropriate Material availability information to internal customers.
• Aligning inventory with Plant objectives and targets to ensure Inventory is optimized.
• Project managing issues / assignments / New Product introductions / Continuous improvement initiatives as assigned.
• Communicating via data / metrics / reports / relationship building - both internally and externally.
• Providing mentoring and training focus for more junior team members.