MANAGER, PRODUCTION PLANNING B

CROWN Cork & Seal USA, Inc., a wholly owned company of Crown Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of packaging products for consumer goods. At Crown, we are passionate about helping our customers build their brands and connect with consumers around the world.  We do this by delivering innovative packaging that offers significant value for brand owners, retailers and consumers alike. With operations in 39 countries employing over 25,000 people and net sales of over $12 billion, we are uniquely positioned to bring best practices in quality and manufacturing to our customers to drive their businesses locally and globally.  Sustaining a leadership position requires us to build a team of highly talented, dedicated and driven individuals. 

Crown’s Beverage Division manufactures a variety of packaging solutions for soft drinks, craft beers, coffees and teas as well as new energy drinks. Crown Beverage leads the packaging industry with innovative technologies that redefine how the world looks at beverage cans. With a large printable surface area and a wide range of sizes, shapes and decorating options, our aluminum cans are the perfect packaging format to create compelling brand presence where it counts. Here is your chance to join the Crown Beverage Division.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop the Master Schedule requirements from demand forecast, plant capacity, and historical data.
• Interact with production and sales personnel to update and advise of progress and new developments.
• Manage volume and manufacturing location changes between factories as needed to meet customer requirements.
• Monitoring inventories in an effort to minimize costs and achieve Plant inventory goals.
• Oversee development and maintenance of tools that enhance production planning capability for the Division.
• Maintain accurate needs attention and obsolete inventory and implement measures for improvement.
• Track/analyze data and produce required reports.
• Update and maintain the planning production system.
• Interface with manufacturing personnel, purchasing personnel, etc. on material status and production planning issues.
• Coordinate with the manufacturing floor to actively manage the production schedule.
• Follow and audit production orders through the production process to ensure the proper schedule is followed.
• Monitor manufacturing system transactions for accuracy and work with leaders to correct discrepancies and eliminate the fundamental causes of the problems.
• Coordinate material delivery with inventory to support manufacturing schedule. May examine material delivered to production to verify conformance to specifications.
• Compile records such as material inventory, in process production reports, and status and location of materials.
• Perform system transactions to report movement of material between manufacturing operations and into finished goods.
• Monitor daily progress of manufacturing orders. 
• Monitor quality, service, and delivery issues and issues corrective actions as needed.
• Plan and schedule production orders based on established priorities and the availability of required materials and capacity. Follow up to determine actual performance versus estimates. 
• Maintain the capacity report so that it can be used as a tool in the planning and scheduling process.
• Maintain monthly and yearly inventory levels.
• Maintain additional metric reports.
• Perform other job-related duties as required or assigned.

Job Requirements

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of production control experience with 3 years minimum in a manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, logistics, operations research, or related area would be preferred. 
• Experience in planning component parts from various suppliers, to support plant assembly operations.
• Working experience in balancing customer service levels along with aggressive inventory reduction goals.
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft office:  Word, Excel, Access.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• The ability to work independently and with a team.