Supervises production planning for U.S. operations, including master scheduling, job prioritization, supplier releases, inventory coordination, expedited materials, engineering changes, and customer demand fluctuations. The role balances production capacity and headcount, monitors logistics and shipment performance, resolves inventory discrepancies, supports PPAP timing, manages departmental budgets, and leads cross-functional teams. Travel to customers and Stabilus facilities may be required.
Supervisor Production Planning
Job Summary:
Since 1934, Stabilus has offered components for diverse applications. We started out as a manufacturer of retrofittable stabilizers for the American automotive industry in 1962 and were the first company in the world to produce gas springs as standard equipment. Since then, we have continued to establish our pioneering role: With a wide range of applications, our unique product range and decades of experience, we are the world's leading manufacturer of solutions based on gas springs, dampers and electromechanical drives.
The Supervisor Production Planning position is located at our U.S. Corporate Headquarters in Gastonia, NC. The person in this role plans, develops, and manages the production planning function for Stabilus United States (STUS) in meeting the KPI’s for Logistics; customer on-time shipments, NWC, and production schedules (maintaining optimum OEE), In-Bound freight, Out-Bound freight and activities for optimal performance.
Main Tasks
- Primary responsible for STUS production planning; including MPS (Master Production Schedule). Ensuring production plan accurately reflects customer requirements with the aim of enhancing customer satisfaction.
- Establish priorities for specific production jobs
- Coordinate and schedule Pilot’s to assure PPAP requirements timing
- Coordinate engineering changes and/or phase-out for programs to prevent obsolescence
- Balance production schedule to level headcount working with production
- Monitor the status of supplier release delivery dates and quantities in SAP for international & domestic suppliers
- Coordinate and monitor supplier inventory
- Follow up on early/late shipments, over/under shipments, and support customer logistics complaints
- Coordinate expedite arrangements if needed for inbound material
- Communicate exception requirements to suppliers to support sudden customer increases or decreases in demand or to support internal bank builds
- Assist with cycle counts of raw material, investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies
- Travel to customers, and other Stabilus centers of operations as required.
- Achieve departmental budget objectives.
- The job holder is obliged to follow the existing procedures and work instructions and act accordingly.
Education, Training, Certifications
- Undergraduate degree in marketing, logistics, purchasing finance, accounting, or engineering.
Experience
- 1-5 years of Logistics planning experience
- Demonstrated history of performance in achieving business objectives
- Experience working with computers and production planning software, SAP preferred.
- Experience working in a fast-paced warehouse environment preferred.
- Must be able to work in an environment of continuous change. The evolution of this department will be dependent on a growing customer base and the individual needs of the customer. It is required that the position holder be able to readily accept change and commit to the successful implementations necessary to meet customer expectations.
Job Knowledge and Skills
- Build and lead highly effective cross functional teams.
- Process thinker - pragmatic
- Relentless and tenacious in goal achievement
- Highly competitive
- Emotionally strong and consistent
- Strong technical and analytic capabilities
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Highest personal integrity
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Stabilus Gastonia, North Carolina, USA Office
1201 Tulip Dr, Gastonia, North Carolina, United States, 28052 1842
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