Weatherford is hiring a Senior Production Planner for our West Hardy Road facility in Houston. This is a hands-on, rewarding role that you’ll perform production planning tasks for the oil and gas industry. The Senior Production Planner will be working within a supportive, inclusive team in a fast-paced, progressive environment. Weatherford provides training, excellent benefits and fantastic career progression.
This position requires the ability to plan, maintain and analyze production and sales requirements, compare progress to schedule, resolve scheduling conflicts, assess data and coordinate solutions.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: (not listed in any particular order) Plan products in JDE utilizing MRP.
- Open and manage production Work Order packages.
- Manage material shortages for production build and communicate status to management.
- Coordinate with Purchasing on the status of parts being procured for production orders to ensure timely release and completion of production orders.
- Communicate with Production Supervisors and Leads to determine status of production orders.
- Attend Production Meetings to provide detailed updates on the plan and manage promise dates.
- Review customer requirements with Customer Service and convey promise dates.
- Set and maintain product master and planning fields in JDE.
- Coordinate stock issues and outages.
- Setup and maintain a master schedule based on customer requirements to drive MRP.
- Review and maintain BOM's inside of JDE and item branch records for all component items.
- Ability to monitor and manage load vs. capacity to maintain efficient business practices.
- Assist Management in setting build priorities, assessing master schedule changes, identifying bottlenecks and constraints, etc.
- Create outside service purchase orders and manage material through the processes.
- 5+ years planning/scheduling experience in an MRP-driven manufacturing environment.
- JDE Experience Preferred
- Strong organization and time-management skills.
- Ability to work as part of cross-functional teams.
- Excellent understanding of Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
- Good communication skills (oral and written). Ability to effectively interface and collaborate with all departments to ensure positive results.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
