Production Planner

at  Leggett Platt

We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for a Production Planner within our international spring team to help support our bedding business. Did you know we have been revolutionizing the sleep industry since 1883? That’s right! In fact, we hold the original patent on a spiral steel coil bed spring, filed way back in 1885. Since then, we have been an industry leader in guaranteeing you get the best sleep possible. If you join our team, your work will ensure people across the world have a little more comfort in their lives.
As a Production Planning you will have the opportunity to work within a high-volume manufacturing environment. Your contributions will have a direct impact on the business by managing the flow of materials throughout the facility. The team you will be working with is diverse, collaborative, and high performing, and values diversity of thought and adaptability.

SO, WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING AS A PRODUCTION PLANNER?

• To schedule factory operations in a way that ensures optimal customer service and maximum factory throughput.
• Aim to ensure delivery of all orders in line with customer expectations.
• Maximise machine and labour efficiency by order batching to improve machine uptime, crew utilisation.
• Manage flow of material through factory ensuring WIP stocks are minimised while ensuring availability of materials.
• Maintain effective capacity plan, highlighting potential bottle necks or surplus capacity to management.
• Complete performance to plan and throughput reports on a daily/weekly basis.
• Using data from S&OP team forecast longer term capacity constraints and surpluses
• Work closely with customer service to ensure delivery information is accurate and up to date
• Manage production requirements for on time delivery to sister site.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with planning team on sister site.
• Challenge production function to deliver the plan, highlighting nonperforming areas.
• Set priorities when capacity is constrained.
• Work with IT function to ensure effective tools are available to facilitate improvement of function.
• Any other duties as may required by the business.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL NEED:

• Good at building relationships across functions with others in the business.
• Minimum 5 years planning experience in a high volume multi stage manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of demand, supply, inventory and planning dynamics and concepts such as MRP, JIT, lean, and theory of constraints.
• Good level of English and Mathematics.
• High degree of computer literacy.