Planner in W. Warwick, Rhode Island at AstroNova Inc

The Production Planner is responsible for developing executable production schedules, evaluating component availability and supply constraints, determining feasible work-order release dates, and releasing and maintaining work orders to support customer delivery requirements.

Primary Focus

Detailed planning, part studies, work-order management, short-term scheduling, and day-to-day coordination.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and short-term production schedules based on established priorities, customer requirements, materials, labor, equipment, and available resources.
• Perform part studies to determine manufacturing processes, routings, operations, and estimated labor or machine requirements.
• Create, review, and release work orders, ensuring materials, routings, operations, quantities, and required dates are accurate.
• Coordinate with Production, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Maintenance, and Materials to ensure work is properly planned and released.
• Monitor work orders and schedule progress and identify delays, material shortages, resource constraints, and scheduling conflicts.
• Adjust detailed schedules based on changing priorities, material availability, manpower, and capacity.
• Maintain accurate planning, routing, scheduling, and work-order information within ERP/MRP systems.
• Communicate daily priorities, schedule changes, and work-order requirements to affected teams.
• Provide schedule and work-order status updates and support the Senior/Lead Planner/Master Scheduler with planning information and analysis.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, work-order flow, and schedule adherence.

Qualifications

• Associate or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field preferred.
• Experience in planning, scheduling, production control, manufacturing, or a related environment.
• Experience with ERP/MRP or production planning systems.
• Ability to understand manufacturing processes, routings, work orders, and production requirements.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing requirements.

Key Performance Indicators

• Work-order release accuracy and timeliness
• Part-study and routing accuracy
• Schedule adherence
• On-time work-order completion
• Work-order aging
• Planning data accuracy
• Material and resource availability