Production Planning Representative

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Westlake Pipe & Fittings, a Westlake division (NYSE:WLK), is one of the largest polyvinyl chloride pipe and fittings manufacturer in North America. With 23 manufacturing and distribution locations, the company supplies gasketed, solvent weld and restrained joint pipes and a wide range of fittings for a diverse list of markets including municipal water and sewer, plumbing, water well, pool and spa, and agricultural and turf irrigation. Westlake Pipe & Fittings is an industry leader in product development with Certa-Lok spline-lock technology and product systems that are focused on building A Better Foundation. To learn more, visit the website at WestlakePipe.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook.

SUMMARY

Working with internal customers from various departments, the Production Planner is required to effectively coordinate the production planning and scheduling activities in order to meet customer demand and achieve target inventory and service levels.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

May include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop, establish, maintain, and communicate a 4-6 week production schedule for injection molded operations, assembled fittings and fabricated fittings.
• Be an advocate for and track schedule adherence at the plants
• Manage production scheduling of multi-level routing and dependent requirements
• Develop finished goods production targets, as well as WIP requirements from forecast and historical demand
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Customer Service, Warehouse and Shipping to meetproduction and customer requirements, including executing schedule changes incoordination with Operations and Customer Service and working with Customer service toimprove on-time deliveries.
• Planning and prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay.
• Work with Plant Managers and Purchasing to arrange manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand.
• Establish and communicate weekly frozen schedule with Operations.
• Scheduling of Make to Order items - includes establishing dates, defining minimum QTY,filling orders to meet required ship dates and advise CustomerService team.
• Maintain inventory target on a monthly basis. Manage safety stocks effectively,account for stock transfer lead time and demand variability.
• Work with S&OP and Capacity analysis team to follow the strategy for long term planning.
• Reviewing demand inputs, such as orders, forecast, inventory levels, in the ERP and outside of the system in order to make decisions regarding supply planning
• Knowledge of master data including material master MRP, BOMs, routing and ECN process.
• Monitor and maintain MRP planning parameters for responsible manufactured items.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or related field
• 5+ years of supply chain or other relevant experience
• Proficient computer skills in MS Excel, Access, Word and Outlook
• APICS certification is preferred
• Experience with SAP is preferred, but similar ERP experience is acceptable such as AX Microsoft Dynamics
• Able to multi-task and display a high level of company/team spirit in a fast-pacedenvironment
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills. Excellent communication skills both writtenand verbal

Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.

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