Job Description

Job Location: 1035 Meacham Blvd - Fort Worth, TX 76106
Position Type: Full TimeEducation
Level: Not Specified
Salary Range: $50,000.00 - $55,000.00
Travel Percentage: None
Job Category: Strategy - Planning

Position Summary:
The role of the Manufacturing Planner is to ensure capacity plans are followed and track associated required capacity to optimize service, working capital and costs. They are highly motivated and have a desire to work in a fast paced, quality centered environment. This role is vital to ensuring our customers’ needs are consistently met, promoting our company’s continued strong national growth.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Internal Relationships: All Departments
External Relationships: Occasional and incidental contact with customers or prospective customers
Traits Displayed:
- Ability to exude high energy, solution-based thinking, while focusing great attention to detail and maintaining a service-oriented disposition.
- Contribute to a work environment that promotes pride in being part of a winning team and encourages personal and professional growth and success.
- Assure productivity and high-quality standards are constant so that the company and employees collectively enjoy optimum financial returns, job security, personal career growth and excellent service to customers.
- Ability to provide exemplary and consistent customer satisfaction, with a strong capacity for building relationships.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work under the direction of the Demand & Manufacturing Planning Manager to determine appropriate methods of scheduling work order completion.
- Understand best methods to utilize production capacity.
- Ensure capacity plan is followed.
- Troubleshoot potential capacity issues on an ongoing basis.
- Prepare information to assist in the development of budgets and prepare reports to demonstrate performance towards goals.
- Assist with research efforts to identify significant variances between estimates and actual job completion times.
- Utilize ERP system to develop material and production requirements.
- Work with Sales and Operations to determine priorities and schedules required to meet customer requirements.
- Other duties as assigned.

QualificationsMinimum Requirements:
- Strong comprehension of theory of constraints.
- 2+ years experience in production planning, inventory control or related experience in a fabrication environment.
- Possess solid analytical skills in forecasting and anticipating production needs and capabilities.
- Knowledge of manufacturing, quality control, and planning processes.
- Ability to understand manufacturing engineering processes.
- Ability to read and understand blueprints.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Excellent computer skills, with ability to apply scheduling and data management.
- Strong interpersonal skills requiring the ability to resolve conflicting interests and obtain cooperation
Preferred Requirements:
- College degree preferred.
Environment/Physical Requirements with or without Accommodation:
- This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines
- This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.
All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs and activities.