Production Planner

MOVING YOUR WORLD by focusing on your success:

FUCHS offers a challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow. We stand behind our core values: trust, creating value, respect, reliability, and integrity. Ours is a culture that fosters creativity and empowerment, values work/life balance, and gives you the freedom to excel. At FUCHS we aim to nurture your capabilities, ideas and career.

Salary:

FUCHS offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position. The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $75,000 per year, but actual salary will vary depending upon a new hire's experience and qualifications as well as inter-nal equity.

• Develop production schedules to meet all finished goods requirements while optimizing capacity and inventory levels
• Work with Sales and Operations to plan, develop and establish production schedules to meet customer demands
• Monitor the manufacturing schedule throughout the month and anticipate possible changes as needed due to batch failure, equipment failure, or lack of resources (material, labor, etc.)
• Coordinate with buyers, production, quality, sales, customer service, and shipping to maintain service level goals
• Utilize the Company MRP system to:
  
  
  
  • Determine whether sufficient raw material and component inventory exists to produce the quantity of product required.
  • Verify manufacturing lead times and available capacity.
  
  
  
  
• Review raw material demands to anticipate shortages.
• Provide leadership support/role in Daily/Weekly Planning meetings.
• Generate capacity plans for applicable manufacturing cells.

• Bachelor's degree in business related field
• APICS certification preferred
• 2+ years experience in production planning in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with MRP/ERP systems (SAP or Dynamics GP preferred)
• Proficiency with MS Office suite
• Advanced Excel skills

FUCHS offers a challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow as pro-fessionals. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that will expand your experience and challenge your abilities in the global marketplace. The position also offers an excellent compensation package and a comprehensive suite of benefits. Detailed benefit information can be found at this link: https://fuchs.com/us/en/benefits.

FUCHS Lubricants Co. is an equal employment opportunity (EEO)/AA employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace (m/f/d/v).