At Trane Technologies® we Challenge Possible. Our brands – including Trane® and Thermo King® - create access to cooling and comfort in buildings and homes, transport and protect food and perishables, connect customers to elevated performance with less environmental impact, dramatically reduce energy demands and carbon emissions, and innovate with a better world in mind. We boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world.
Trane Technologies is hiring a Production Planner in Hastings, Nebraska. In this role, you will prepare schedules for shipping and receiving materials to control flow of goods, implement materials handling procedures, and monitor the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources. You will also oversee the maintenance of inventory control systems that track the status of purchase orders, inventory levels, and production requirements. Interprets inventory requests, production schedules, orders, and other documents to co-ordinate materials handling activities with the organization's current and anticipated demand for goods and materials.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate material requirements.
- Establish production manufacturing priorities for the customer demands consistent with master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and service level goal.
- Develop new product group schedules with requirement of the manufacturing build schedule.
- Implement production tools for building to actual customer demands, Kanbans, prioritizing builds, expediting and automating transactions per Lean concepts.
- Manage aftermarket planning.
- Manage rejected and rework product planning.
- Coordinate manufacturing activities and monitors schedule performance against plan to maintain priorities and meet established schedules.
- Meet daily with cross-functional team to resolve delayed customer shipments, component shortages, overtime, priorities, and identified problems.
- Work the critical shortage reports on a daily basis and updates the appropriate cause codes for service level reporting. Identifies and resolves problems.
- Participate in identification and recommends disposition of obsolete and surplus assembly inventory.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree preferred; 2-5 years of relative experience required in lieu of degree.
- APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) preferred.
- Experience with rate based or flow line (non-MRP) and job shop manufacturing environments.
- At least two years’ experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and lean manufacturing processes.
- Experience with visual management systems.
- Proficient in Excel.
We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs that help our employees thrive in both their professional and personal lives. We are proud of our winning culture which is inclusive and respectful at its core. We share passion for serving customers, caring for others, and boldly challenging what’s possible for a sustainable world.
We are committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.
