Production Planning Analyst

Production Planner Analyst

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World 

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

​​This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.​ 

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role 
 As a Production Planner Analyst, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

•  Lead cross functional projects across the business to effectively drive change in service, cost, and inventory. 

• Develops and maintains operating rhythms to ensure smooth supply chain operations, aligning supply with demand. 

• Maintains relevant planning master data and supports new product introduction and phase-in phase out material business processes, and associated change management processes. 

• Provides a high degree of planning analysis to support decision making. 

• Publishes and presents service and inventory metrics and results. 

• Identifies and leads projects that improve supply chain speed and inventory investment.  Review and reports on project progress with management. 

• Works closely with the business unit to understand customer requirements and forecasts.  Works closely with manufacturing to ensure alignment to business requirements by setting and maintaining sufficient inventory levels and lead times. 

• Actively manage working and non-working inventories in assigned businesses to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets. 

• Utilize Supply Chain tools and processes such as SAP, EWM, Power BI. 

• Utilize Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve service, inventory turns, and non-working inventory 

• Utilize Supply Chain parameter management tools to optimize planning parameters (safety stock, lot size, EOQ, Loop & Supermarket, lead time)  

Your Skills and Expertise   
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution. 

• Three (3) years of experience in supply chain, transportation, logistics, manufacturing, production, and/or customer service in a private, public, government or military environment 

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include: 

• APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) CPIM certification is preferred 

• Six Sigma Green Belt project experience and/or certification

• Proficient in Microsoft office – (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

• Experience with a Manufacturing Execution and/or Planning System (e.g. SAP, Proprietary, Oracle, JDA, etc…) 

• Experience in Lean Scheduling or Lean Manufacturing 

• Experience with Microsoft VBA Macros, SQL, MS Cloud Apps (e.g. Teams, SharePoint, Power BI). 

Work location:  On-site Monroe, NC