Program Planner
Summary
A Program Planner at a manufacturing company translates customer orders into production schedules, manages ERP data, and coordinates with teams to ensure on-time order fulfillment and resource planning.
Job Title: Program Planner I Job Status: Full Time
Department: Supply Chain Reports To: Materials Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt Travel Requirements: None
Work Schedule: M-F Base Location: Hayden, ID
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for translating customer purchase orders into a daily, actionable production plan. Program Planners provide timely and professional support to existing customers. This position will input customer orders into the company’s ERP system and assist in building tactical production schedules, ensuring orders are started on time and executing to the master production plan. Work orders are created and released by the Program Planner, who will monitor progress, so issues are mitigated or communicated. The Program Planner will provide input to production management on resource planning and long-range forecasting. As needed, coordinate with estimators and buyers so that the production plan is executable.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinate internally and externally to ensure customer purchase orders are received, negotiated, accepted, and input into Unitech’s business management system.
- Regularly review existing purchase orders, aligning customer needs and production capabilities.
- Manage customer scorecards and provide timely feedback internally and externally.
- Provide timely status of customer’s purchase orders.
- Coordinate with production buyers to ensure material and tooling requirements are met.
- Collaborate with production supervisors on short- and long-range resource planning.
- Develop daily production schedules and weekly production plans
- Create work orders and release them to the production plan.
- Status production performance to the plan, both internally and externally.
- Participate in and occasionally lead continuous improvement efforts that support customer success.
- Support sales, estimating, and business development functions through subject matter expertise in production planning.
- Process customer returned products.
- Coordinate with engineering and quality assurance experts to ensure product conformance is met.
- Provide daily feedback from Operations to assist in the master production plan.
- Support internal customer requests for information and/or reports