Production Planner

Description About Us:

KF Valves was founded more than 60 years ago with the vision of transporting crude oil even more safely and efficiently. Valves have always been at the heart of every transport route used for various fluids. Every day, our experienced team performs diverse and complex tasks at our headquarters in Houston, Texas, to ensure that individual orders are completed professionally and on time, and that the functionality and quality of our products is being continuously improved.

The Production Planner is responsible for planning and coordinating the production and inventory required to deliver valves to our customers on on-time. This includes generation of work orders, tracking material shortages with suppliers and coordinating with warehouse and assembly to complete the jobs on time to meet customer due dates. (Job Levels: I, II, or III dependent on experience and demonstrated proficiency)

- Creates and releases work orders and production schedules for manufacturing and outside processing purchase orders daily.

- Manage planning and production execution data including work orders, prioritization, capacity constraints and production monitoring.

- Expedite component shortages with buyers to complete work orders on time.

- Coordinates with purchasing, production, engineering, quality, and sales to trouble shoot issues preventing job completion.

- Maintain MRP planning and scheduling parameters for "make" items.

- Track progress to weekly schedule and estimate completion dates to shipping and customer service.

- Find substitutions and local machining options in case of surprise shortages.

- Help Production Manager & Industrial Engineer in preparing weekly production schedules.

- Report scheduling, capacity and production tracking data, statistics and metrics as defined by the Master Schedule policy.

- Monitor production progress against scheduling needs and intervene as necessary to bring deliveries back into compliance with production schedules.

- Identifies and requisitions MRP inventory and non-MRP inventory requirements to meet production planning and sales requirements for assigned commodities and maintains MRP system data integrity for supplier data (unit price, delivered lead-time, EOQ)

- Additional duties and responsibilities may be required, based upon business needs.

Requirements

- Minimum High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)

- 2 years of experience in a related role or in a manufacturing environment preferred.

- Organized and able to manage multiple changing priorities while meeting deadlines.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to interface effectively with personnel at all levels of the organization.

- Strong work ethic and compliance with attendance policy; willing to learn new skills.

Working Conditions

- The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.

Physical Requirements

- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.

Background Check

: Employment will be dependent on the candidate successfully passing a background check.

: KF Valves LLC offers competitive compensation based on qualifications, a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401k benefits. Paid holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO) are also offered.