Job Abstract

High Steel Service Center, located in Lancaster, PA, is currently hiring a Production and Inventory Planner. High Steel Service Center, an affiliate of High Industries Inc., has a 200,000-square-foot facility with 150,000 tons of capacity. The service center is a full-line metal processor and distributor and offers carbon steel, aluminum flat rolled, and stainless steel products.

The Production and Inventory Planner position is responsible for planning the production and inventory requirements needed to maximize production efficiency, minimize inventory investment, and meet customer service expectations. This role will plan, schedule, release, and track the flow of material requirements from Purchasing and Sales through Production to Shipping.

This position functions as a critical liaison between the production, purchasing, demand management, and sales functions. It is a focal point among all departments to effectively communicate and help meet company goals and customer requirements, but specifically provides direction to the work center functions as it relates to production schedules.

Successful candidates will possess the following qualifications:

• Bachelors' degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Management, or similar accredited business degree.
• 3 - 5 years hands-on work center scheduling in a fast paced repetitive production environment.
• Demonstrated track record of process improvement. Can complement lean and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Must possess strong mathematical skills and the ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
• Comprehensive working knowledge of ERP system software required. SAP experience strongly preferred.
• Understand the relationships between the production plan, sales plan, and overall business plan.
• Have knowledge of various methods to establish and work with bills of material (BOMs) and routings.
• Understand scheduling techniques (i.e. forward scheduling, backward scheduling, etc.).
• Have knowledge of techniques to manage infinite loading and finite loading.
• Have knowledge of how to manage load leveling and bottleneck scheduling.
• APICS CPIM certification is preferred.

Essential Job Functions:

• Establish mutually-agreed capacities at each work center or constraint by working with Production, Purchasing, and Sales.
• Establish inventory requirements at SKU level based on forecast and usage data.
• Monitor, analyze and report on schedule execution and inventory performance results.
• Ensure timely execution of all schedule requirements.
• Prepare an executable forward-scheduled production plan built upon a foundation of constraint management and finite capacity.
• Develop and articulate potential solutions to scheduling problems created by changing conditions.
• Understands and can articulate tradeoffs of potential solutions to senior management.
• Attend daily production meeting for input and general knowledge concerning daily production plan.
• Proactively engage appropriate key Supervisors or Managers to act upon opportunities and problems as they arise.
• Notify appropriate Sales personnel if production schedule will not meet customer schedule requirements. At the time of such notification, expectation is that Production and Inventory Planner will also advise of appropriate recovery plan.
• Identify current planned level of demand, then create production plans and manage inventory as needed to meet the identified customer demand.
• Responsible for resolving conflicts that inhibit schedule execution.
• Interpret system generated action messages and make necessary changes to production and/or inventory plans.
• Effectively manage a portion of capacity in MPS for unplanned events.
• Create and maintain bills of materials and routings for standard stock items in our product offering.
• Determine available capacity before planned orders are released.
• Establish, measure, monitor, and adjust capacity levels to execute all manufacturing schedules.

Working for the High Companies:

• Excellent benefits including medical, dental and vision available for full-time coworkers. Vacation is offered to regular full-time coworkers and is earned annually on your anniversary date. You may carry over a portion of your hours into the next anniversary year.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a company match.
• Tuition Assistance with 100 percent reimbursement for approved courses and degree programs which are job related and approved in advance by your supervisor.
• Employee Assistance Program provides professional, confidential assistance for any type of personal issue you or your eligible dependents are experiencing.
• High Family Foundation Scholarship is awarded annually to the children of High co-workers working at least 1,000 hours per year and employed for at least two years. Recipients are awarded $4,000 for each year they are enrolled in a two- or four-year accredited degree program.
• Good Measure Award is presented periodically to an individual or team from each of the High companies who exemplifies The High Philosophy and who has gone above and beyond normal job responsibilities to provide "Good Measure."