Responsibilities:- Facilitates daily production meetings to provide information on the status of material and customer orders to provide shipping dates.- Is the main point of contact for customer service and master scheduler to provide ship date for customer orders- Plans, organizes, directs and controls activities related to the planning function of finish good materials to ship direct to customers.- Manage FOB Orders schedule to meet dates and generate revenue within the month.- Manage WIP inventory levels thru the end of the month and end of the quarter, by adjusting the manufacturing schedules to meet dock dates.- Coordinate RG (returned goods) revision and usage to minimize inventory impact and/or scrap.- Analyzes delivery conditions to determine present and future material availability and escalates findings to master scheduler, customer service and management.- Works with the purchasing department to schedule the delivery of materials needed to meet the production deadlines.- Communicate to purchasing and planning of components on changes of the schedule, to re-plan material deliveries.- The planner must use lead-time information to ensure that materials are received in a timely manner for production requirements.- This may include the production of subassemblies within the organization that are needed to produce a final product.- Creates a work schedule for the production department using inventory information and production rates- Review and Execute MRP exception messages reports, to manage its portfolio.- Minimum 5 years of experience in production control production- Engineering or Bachelor's degree in Business Administration- Experience using mayor ERP systems, especially Advance Planning Systems- Knowledge of Supply Chain fundamentals (APICS training as a PLUS)- Bilingual - English and Spanish- Production planner must be organized and have the ability to respond quickly to changes in the production schedule- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills for report writing and interactions with diverse groups of people inside/outside of the company- Demonstrated proficiency with PC software (MS Office, Excel,)- Computer skills are necessary to the job and knowledge of Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) is essential to manufacturing planning.- Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment