What makes us strong? Our employees in 50 countries worldwide – all working with passion to enable high-tech applications with our strong metals: tungsten and molybdenum.

At our Plansee site in Franklin, USA, we specialize in transforming semi-finished molybdenum and tungsten products into complex components—leveraging decades of precision manufacturing and engineering excellence.

Join a highly motivated team in Franklin, USA, where local expertise meets the global knowledge and values of the Plansee Group.

• Plan production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and high utilization of available capacity.
• Maintain/set material master data, such as costing lot size, production lot sizes, safety stock levels (with approval). Mark and release cost estimates. 
• Analyze, plan, and confirm sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements via SAP and FastPro.
• Review and plan new sales orders; create production orders; communicate critical dates to other departments as needed; provide timely confirmation of sales orders to the Sales department as per our marathon goals.
• Analyze the master schedule to ensure materials, manpower and resources are available to support the plan horizon.
• Establish production order priorities and work with the Production Scheduler to ensure priorities are maintained and executed to plan.
• Monitor exception messages and deltas and initiate changes to resolve production issues. 
• Act as a point of contact for the Sales department on questions regarding order status updates and communicating changes in the schedule to the affected departments.  
• Collaborate with Production Scheduler, and at times with Production Management to resolve production problems.
• Investigate and report the cause of critical material shortages and initiate corrective action as needed.
• Keep departments informed about completion dates, material changes or substitutions, and schedule modifications.
• Interface professionally with all departments, supervisors and managers as required.
• Ensure ISO/AS9100 compliance for all processes related to the purchasing, planning and execution of the production schedule, especially as they relate to ITAR/EAR work.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting as requested.

• Associates degree or other two year technical degree in a related discipline and three (3) years of related work experience. A combination of education and work experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. APICS certification a plus.
• Experience with SAP R/3 Logistics module (emphasis on Production and Production Planning) desired.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Strong communication skills and effective at building relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Self-starter with the ability to prioritize and work with minimal supervision.
• Detail-oriented with strong problem- analysis and solving skills.
• Ability to work overtime as required by production/customer demands.

Benefits

• Medical - 90% paid for with 100% reimbursement on deductible
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible spending accounts
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• 401 K w/ company match
• Time off Benefits
• And much more!

The base compensation for this position is between 60-85k annually, commensurate with skill and experience level.

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