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Champion Home Builders, Inc. wants YOU! We are seeking to hire Production Planner to join our team in the Pembroke, NC facility!

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

• 401k Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Medical
• Rx
• Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.

Job Title: Production Planer - Pembroke Hub

FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports to: Operations Manager

As a Production Planner, you will be an integral part of the production team, working closely with purchasing, the production team, and freight suppliers. You will take a leadership role in managing and optimizing work orders coming from customer plants, ensuring the seamless flow of work and materials through our manufacturing process, and managing the outflow of material through packaging and final shipping. You will play a major role in verifying the accuracy of the orders, optimizing the production schedule, while making sure raw material inventory is adequate. In addition to these responsibilities, you will assist the buyer in procuring direct and in working with accounts payable for the accounting of month end material inventory. As a Quality Assurance professional, you will institutionalize the quality control systematic processes and testing methods to assure quality part build throughout the manufacturing process. We are seeking a candidate with a proven track record, strong attention to detail, strategic thinking abilities, and excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Daily interfaces with the operations manager to provide the production schedule and the overall materials plan.
• Manages inventory of starting materials, WIP, and finished goods to support production activities.
• Monitors actual and forecasted consumption of materials and orders replenishment stock.
• Manages timely and efficient processing of orders through the procurement process. Interfaces with receiving plants weekly to assure order accuracy and develops weekly production forecast.
• Updates the pricing model based on new material and transportation costs.
• Monitors the status of open purchase orders including delivery and quality issues that may affect status.
• Reviews and evaluates safety stock levels, minimum order quantities, supplier, and QA lead times on a regular basis to identify continuous improvement opportunities including but not limited to inventory reductions.
• Manages production yield while minimizing scrap and can identify, report, and track defects and issues as well as analyze and interpret data and metrics.
• Manages all rejected/non-conforming material through the Material Disposition Process.
• Tracks and reports production performance and interfaces with leadership on quality and throughput issues.
• Interfaces with Accounts Payables monthly to account for shop floor inventory.
• Provides support to Purchasing for credit issues with vendors.
• Coordinates the return of the material with QA, Purchasing, warehouse, and suppliers.
• Maintains complete and current knowledge of all material requirements, production processes, and issues affecting product availability, including special activities related to specific products and/or projects (for example, managing requests for special samples to support stability studies and global product registrations).
• Perform daily factory and warehouse walkthroughs to supervise employees and production practices

Qualifications

• S. in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of manufacturing or relevant experience.
• Experience in supply chain management.
• Experience in Quality Control activities, ability to identify and manage risk.
• Strong influencing, negotiation, interpersonal, and communications skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Need to be able to use a series of digital tools for capturing orders, optimizing batch runs, and interfacing with floor equipment to track orders.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced, team environment and adapt to changing business needs.
• Attention to Detail with an exceptional eye for detail and a commitment to maintaining the highest levels of data accuracy.
• Adept at collaborating in cross-functional teams and leading by example.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address complex production and supply chain issues.
• 10-25% travel to support receiving plants if needed and work with suppliers on enhancing their quality and shipment lead times.

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 frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, traverse stairs, stoop and bend. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and 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.

Champion Home Builders is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Champion Home Builders participates in the E-Verify Program.