Production Planner

Production Planner

Job Type: Full Time (Exempt)

Location: Novi, MI

Reports To: Purchasing and Production Planning Manager

Overview:

Brooks Utility Products is America’s oldest electric utility manufacturing company. 2023 marks our 150th year in business. Founded as EJ Brooks & Company, the business eventually incorporated Meter Devices Company and Ekstrom Industries to build the most comprehensive electric utility product line portfolio available. Today, we are the leading utility manufacturer of seals, locking equipment, adapters, meter sockets, meter-base testing equipment, test switches, and utility enclosures. Our product line focuses on utility safety, security, and productivity. In 2022, Brooks became a part of the Madison Industries family, joining companies such as Holmatro, Task Force Tips, Reelcraft, Tyden Brooks, Big Ass Fans, Broan/Nutone, and Seakeeper. Along with the entire Madison family of companies, we are on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive.

Brooks Utility Products is seeking a highly motivated self-sufficient Production Planner

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Interfaces with customer service, engineering, sales & operations with planning and maintaining a master build schedule for all Brooks products.

- Develop understanding of the requirements of the business from all sources and distilling these requirements into a defined schedule for the operations team to work toward.

- Main point of contact for customer service regarding product availability and timing.

- Supports continuous improvement projects within the company.

- Coordinate with Purchasing on ordering parts and raw materials, deliveries and orders.

- Set priorities between competing interests to minimize customer impact.

- Tracking of On Time Delivery, develops recovery plans for any past due with operations team.

- Works closely with customer service, sales & production to define and maintain a daily, weekly, monthly and 6 months forecast of production.

- Working closely with the production supervisors and team leads to ensure products are built in a timely and efficient manner.

- Maintains and creates reports relevant to daily, weekly, and monthly production operations.

- Other duties as required by specific business unit assigned.

Qualifications and Competencies:

- At least 5 years in a manufacturing environment; high volume, high mix preferred.

- Excellent written and verbal skills.

- Dedication to delivering high quality products on time.

- Highly experienced working within ERP systems (e.g., Epicor, SAP etc.).

- Excellent Excel skills. Experience in Automation Applications a bonus (Power BI, Power Automate)

- Ability to analyze data and produce meaningful metrics to track and follow up on performance.

- Experience managing complex projects with proven results. Collaboration with technical teams focused on MES/MRP improvements a bonus.

- The ability to prioritize various tasks, communicate information through written and verbal means, and solve complex problems through a variety of resources.