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**Your Job**Ensure a proper execution on production planning areas by bring strategy, couching & an escalation point to production planners.
Adopt a continuous improvement methodology in the area sharing knowledge, tools & experience so the team can focus on the operation.
Stablish an escalation point to improve the performance of the team.
Lead the team on a best practices culture; developing metrics and bring periodically feedback to the team.
**Our Team**The production planning team at your organization is involved in a variety of tasks that are crucial for the operational and strategic planning of production activities.
**What You Will Do**- Lead production planning team by bringing tools, couching, feedback and proper and in time support.- Support operations team bringing visibility, feedback, projections of the demand and customer behavior.- Collaborate with operations team looking for improvements with from materials perspective.- Measure & leveling the workload through the team with the different customer/product/sub ASSY based on the skills, experience & knowledge of the team.- Forecast the headcount need it based on the new business, BU needs, internal workload.- Develop tools, share knowledge, bring proper skills that may help them to increase performance and/or automate planning process.- Point of contact for internal & external escalations.- Monitoring of output and on time completion of work orders to ensure production plan dates are met (Plan attainment, WO aging, WO Variance)- Develop and maintain a robust process with the planning team to schedule demand in shifts according to production capacity, based on the calculation of people required and matching with the CRD & MPD date to meet.
To provide to operation long visibility of the Capacity and head count needs to ensure the right late backlog reduction.- Leads the planning team the timely execution of exception messages to ensure MRP is lean and true to customer demand.- Collaborates with operations in the efficiency of resources (human, machinery & materials) to make production lines more productive- Practice of intellectual curiosity to challenge the status quo- Participate on internal & external audits; bring right & accurate information.- Develop, maintain & keep update documentation such as RREs, Job description, production planning process procedures.- Manage vacations & coverage within the planning team.
**Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)**- Professional degree.- Previous experience leading a team within a similar role.- Proven work experience on demand management, planning areas and leading teams.- Proven ability to use problem solving such as 5 whys, Ishikawa, PDCA, Kaizen methodologies and lean manufacturing.- High Communications skills.- Good understanding of the supply chain.- Focused on results.- High ability on teamwork and leading.- High ERP usage level, process