.**Description****Production Planner****Primary Purpose**:Creation of a daily or weekly production schedule that ensures that customer demand is met by requested deadlines. This includes the analysis of raw material needed to support the schedule as well as engagement in the revision of manpower & equipment available Vs needed to support the requested deadlines.Active participation on strategies that better fit in accordance of the business and customer demand behavior.**Duties and Responsabilities**Planning and prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance with minimum delay which includes analyzing backlog and clear to build.Coordination of production flow across multiple products or family of productsMonitoring of output and on time completion of work orders to ensure production plan dates are metSchedule demand in shifts according to production needsAddress issues as prompted to mitigate any interruption to the production scheduleCommunicate status of production plan through the preparation of performance reportsCollaboration with production support groups like Quality, Engineering, Warehouse, etcPreparation and analysis of expected revenue and shipping projectionsTimely communication flow with Customer Service Reps on inquiriesAnalysis and monitoring of on time delivery at granular level to ensure customer request dates are metInvolvement in Lean projects and/or proposals of projects and strategies to ensure continues improvementRevision and monitoring of inventory levels at Finished Good and sub-assembly levels to maintain optimal strategies and avoid S&E.Maintenance of exception messages to ensure MRP is lean and true to customer demand.Conversion of planned orders daily to ensure demand is being reflected promptly and accordingly within the MRP to execute procurement of materials as well as visibility to ship dates to customers demand.Waterfall analysis weekly review waterfall to determine demand fluctuations and look for a strategy to accomplish mid & long-term demandKaizen releases 1 be-weeklyPerform an active participation on NPI releases and/or new business.Maintain an historic of good performance on metrics; greater than 80%**Scope**: Production Planning execution, demand (Backlog) execution/analysis, revenue and production projections, kaizen implementation