Production Planner - II

Manufacturing Kansas City, Missouri


Description

Multivac, a leading worldwide provider of industrial packaging and processing solutions, is seeking an experienced Production Planner in Kansas City. This is a unique opportunity to impact key business processes with significant impact at a successful, medium-sized organization.   
   
As Production Planner II, you’ll work with sales, manufacturing, accounting, and most other internal groups, to improve and develop timelines and processes, ensuring successful, on-time project completion. This is a fast-moving team that’s passionate about innovation and process improvement. You’ll have both autonomy and support, as well as extensive room to learn and grow.   
   
We’re known for unsurpassed quality, poised for growth, and proud to be a market leader. Approximately 1.2 billion people consume food packaged on Multivac solutions each day, and that’s just the beginning. We’re constantly innovating and evolving, both in terms of product offerings and environmental responsibility. In our 60+ year history, we’ve designed and implemented over 50,000 automated packaging systems globally. Help us refine our efforts to create scalable results and improve production and systems company-wide.  
   
   
Qualifications:   
  • Background in analyzing production vs purchasing options, driving sound decisions and processes for sourcing materials  
  • SAP PP - BOM and routing expertise and history of creating and managing production floor work orders on a day-to-day basis to ensure work center schedule accuracy  
  • Mechanical aptitude and the ability to read blueprints  
  • Experience analyzing new orders with respect to capacity planning and material availability, ensuring processes stay on track, and resolving conflict as necessary  
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability, detail oriented, ready to work both autonomously as well as contribute to the larger team
  • Eagerness to learn and readiness to implement needed processes from concept to documented and functioning workflows
   
Benefits:  
  • Competitive salary with significant bonus potential based on company performance  
  • Low-cost medical and dental premiums, through major carrier   
  • 401k match, vested immediately  
  • Short- and long-term disability at no cost  
  • Volunteer time off