Associate Production Planner

Why work with Millerbernd?

• Our Culture: We are proudly building a safe and secure company for all to be a part of while focused on stable career growth for you.
• Our Benefits: Medical, Dental, Profit Sharing, 401k Retirement Plan, Paid Vacation and Holidays (including your Birthday!), company paid Disability and Life Insurance, and more, as well as many opportunities to grow your skills and earnings.
• We are Innovative: Millerbernd has a great industry-wide reputation for innovation and precision unmatched by any other heavy metal fabricator by designing our own equipment and perfecting our processes
• We Invest: Millerbernd invests in its employees by providing many opportunities for professional and career development.

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities:

Planning Activities:

• Provide status of work in progress, material availability and potential production problems to ensure that employees, equipment and materials are ready as needed
• Creates daily equipment or process schedules for assigned department
• Completes job orders including issuing materials for the transaction

Manufacturing support activities:

• Creates tags for material in process and finished materials
• Creates and updates reports to support the manufacturing
• Updates the manufacturing system for WIP
• Reconciles and ensures proper paperwork is available for operations
• Consistently demonstrate and promote MMC Core Values
• Ensure use of safe work procedures and wear all required PPE. Promptly report all injuries and unsafe conditions.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Bachelors degree and 0 years experience OR a high school diploma and a minimum of 4 years experience in manufacturing specifically updating inventory and/or manufacturing systems
• Prefer experience in production control and/or scheduling
• Microsoft Office skills; particularly with Excel
• MRP/ERP knowledge
• Ability to perform basic shop math functions
• Ability to solve practical problems and make decisions within a set of guidelines
• Ability to read and understand required internal manufacturing paperwork
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to work with others as part of a high performance team
• Adapt to changing work priorities
• Ability to work under limited supervision using standardized practices and/or procedures

Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer/ Veteran Friendly