Job Description

Overview/Purpose:

The Associate Planner, Production ensures that the Mountville manufacturing plant adheres to corporate objectives to maintain appropriate target inventory levels for all SKUs/UPC codes. The incumbent will interact with the Operations teams to coordinate manufacturing production schedules and communicate adjustments based on various business and environmental inputs/constraints. The purpose of this role is to deliver fill rate goals, while minimizing obsolete and excess inventory.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Set weekly production schedule, factoring in orders, forecast and production capacity.
• Analyze, plan, and release production orders to manufacturing while verifying materials and equipment required for production are available.
• Creates Purchase Orders in Prism for finished goods production and associated production schedules for contract manufacturers.
• Confers with management regarding mfg. capabilities, production schedules, and other considerations to facilitate production.
• Update data and inventory transaction accuracy as required by ERP.
• Manage rush requests by manually adjusting ship dates and coordinating with production to ensure customer commitments are met.
• Support day to day operations to ensure timely production, release, and shipment of product.
• Coordinate any major activity relating to the plant floor that may affect the scheduling of jobs or available net capacity of critical constrains and adjust the plan as needed.
• Reconcile schedule attainment for daily, weekly, and monthly plans.
• Work close with Manufacturing team to meet capacity and production requirements.
• Ensures accurate deployment of finished goods to meet customer demands across the distribution network.
• Utilizes KPIs and attainment tracking to monitor plant efficiency and to ensure compliance with co-packer contractual obligations.
• Assists with other projects, as needed.

Qualifications

• Requirements:
• New starting wage is $27.00 / hour (commensurate with experience and location).
• Minimum of two years' experience in master scheduling or production planning capacity.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred.
• Previous experience in a purchasing or scheduling role in a manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of manufacturing and production processes.
• Knowledge of inventory planning and risk.
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize multiple priorities and strong attention to detail.
• Computer skills including MS Office programs such as Outlook, Word, Excel PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate (verbal/writing) effectively.
• Self-motivated and strong analytical / problem solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate at all levels of the organization and across other functional areas.
• Preferred knowledge of the Consumer Product Goods Industry.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Hours and Travel:

• 8am to 5pm, flexible with hours if requested
• Travel, not applicable

Compensation and Benefits

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision Coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Critical illness and accident insurance
• Legal and identity protection insurance
• Pet insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Adoption assistance
• 401(k)
• PTO
• Parental Leave

Hain Celestial is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer. The Company does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, expression, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

If you need accommodations for any part of the employment process because of a disability, please send an e-mail to talent @hain.com or call 516-587-5000 to let us know the nature of your request.

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