Multivac, a leading worldwide provider of industrial packaging and processing solutions, is seeking an experienced Production Planner in Kansas City. This is a unique opportunity to impact key business processes with significant impact at a successful, medium-sized organization.   

As Production Planner, you’ll work with sales, manufacturing, accounting, and most other internal groups, to improve and develop timelines and processes, ensuring successful, on-time project completion. This is a fast-moving team that’s passionate about innovation and process improvement. You’ll have both autonomy and support, as well as extensive room to learn and grow.   
We’re known for unsurpassed quality, poised for growth, and proud to be a market leader. Approximately 1.2 billion people consume food packaged on Multivac solutions each day, and that’s just the beginning. We’re constantly innovating and evolving, both in terms of product offerings and environmental responsibility. In our 60+ year history, we’ve designed and implemented over 50,000 automated packaging systems globally. Help us refine our efforts to create scalable results and improve production and systems company-wide. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned:  

• Perform the “make or buy” decision on all new materials.
• Review orders passed from engineering to assign routings to all in house produced components and assemblies.
• Create and manage SAP production floor work orders on a day to day basis to ensure work center schedule accuracy (making the actual schedule match the planned schedule), expediting rush orders w/ follow-up, creating and maintaining a rush order report.
• Convert all project related production orders from the planned status to created based on available capacity in the respective work centers.
• Analyze new orders with respect to capacity planning and material availability based upon the Master Schedule and present conflict resolution when necessary.
• Perform exception reporting on all MRP assigned materials to ensure business needs as well as customer needs are met, adjusting souring accordingly.
• Cost quoting within SAP for Manufacturing, engineering, and parts sales; using a created BOM and routing.
• Determine cost effectiveness of production vs purchasing on all sourcing changes to in house production.
• Ensure all work orders for shop floor activities are in the proper statuses and creating standard reports on production order processing accuracy per department.
• Examine BOMs of new orders to determine if material sourcing needs to be changed or updated to follow the Manufacturing Strategic Plan.
• Provide interdepartmental feedback involving MRP, material availability, bills of materials, item master data, lead times, costing, units of measure, routings, etc.
• Provide input into the item master, routing and work center files.  Create BOM and labor standards to provide COGs.  Gather information to formulate standard pricing of shop activities.  Provide automated reporting methods validating BOM and labor standards.
• Plan for the highest sustainable rate of output within each product group, provide available capacity and “open slot” reporting for customer sales.
• Update data to reflect the changing standard in Manufacturing via the item master.
• Learn and understand Manufacturing Purchasing and be a back-up when required.

 Benefits:  
      •     Competitive salary with significant bonus potential based on company performance  
      •     Low-cost medical and dental premiums, through major carrier   
      •     401k match, vested immediately  
      •     Short- and long-term disability at no cost  
      •     Generous PTO Plan and Volunteer time off