Senior Plant Planner - St. Louis, MO

What you would do:

• Maintain Product master data and production recipe in SAP.
• Evaluate demand against capacity. Liaise with Master planner, Operation and RPM if demand above capacity.
• Create production schedule for GMO and Non-GMO products that conforms to plant capability and raw material supply.
• Support organization on tool implementation such as APO- PPDS and Oflow.
• Issue detailed schedule for each asset based on a final time-phased production plan.
• Manage production details in line with business strategy (cost, rate, inventory and uptime).
• Assure schedule is continually maintained and communicated throughout the supply chain.
• Highlight and actively participate in the identification and resolution of inventory, raw material supply, customer order issues and quality issues as they develop. Anticipates problem and builds risk mitigation accordingly.
• Communicate production issues, supply changes, deviation from plan and potential resolutions to appropriate parties.
• Manage performance standards and analysis methods to compare actual production performance against the established standards.
• Primary interface between manufacturing and supply chain.
• Work with manufacturing to optimize the plant schedule along with manufacturing capabilities.
• Co-ordinate the production planning with maintenance planning and scheduling needs.
• Validate material availability against asset schedule.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning process and tools - SME / Regional superuser
• Ability to balance finished goods production plan against a variable raw material supply output.
• Must be able to respond to plant operations in off hours in the event of unplanned downtime, etc. on occasion.

What you would need:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration or related fields.
• +5 years experience in operations or supply chain roles
• Knowledge of supply planning theory and stock management
• Knowledge of MS Office tools
• Excellent business English communication skills
• Effective communication skills
• Analytical and quantitative skills
• Continuous improvement attitude

The training and certifications that you would need:

• SAP, APO, MRP training on functional areas of expertise
• APICS Module I (Basics of Supply Chain Management) training
• *Six Sigma certification

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