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Matrix responsibilities with operations and support groups for production planning, shipping, receiving, and inventory functions.\n\nPRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nOptimize production planning throughout organization leveraging SAP toolset to drive business systematically while increasing factory throughput\nParticipate as a member of the operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions, including transformation planning and financial target setting to meet department safety, quality, delivery, cost and cash objectives\nExecute and continuously improve a lean material purchasing and handling system for purchased and assembled parts by ensuring a Plan for Every Part (PFEP), a properly located and managed parts market, a rigorous material-delivery route using standard work, and pull signals to tightly link their areas of continuous flow to the supply of materials. Responsible for developing and improving the internal materials purchasing and delivery system\nDevelop, analyze and communicate location materials metrics and standards of performance\nDevelop and execute a purchasing strategy to meet the company’s business growth and materials requirements including monitoring supplier scorecard performance. Work with strategic supply commodity managers to improve supplier quality and delivery. Partner to optimize supply chain\nImplement and execute LEAN manufacturing in materials planning with accurate consumption projections and a strong internal relationship with production operations\nAdhere to established company policies, procedures, terms and conditions and legal matters \nCoordinate and work with quality, engineering, planning and operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery; drive root cause & corrective action to investigate and de-risk the future plan\nMaintain a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining and aligning company policies that adhere to local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations\nKNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES\nSAP scheduling functionality\nExperience in production planning / level scheduling in a highly complex low volume / high mix manufacturing environment\nInventory (reduction, turns, accuracy)\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills\nPossess a working knowledge and understanding of lean principles and processes\nProficient in Microsoft Office with ability to analyze data and trends to result in action\nKnowledge of issues and considerations for effectively managing local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work in progress and finished goods. \nKnowledge of processes, tools and operations considerations for effective and efficient movement of goods and materials throughout the manufacturing cycle, ensuring we are efficiently supporting our process partners\nKnowledge of the day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility\nStrong analytical skills and financial understanding\n Page Break\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE\nRequired Education / Experience\nBachelor’s Degree in materials supply chain management, engineering, business or related field\nPreferred Education / Experience\nSix Sigma Certification\nAPICS Certification\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION\nKey Working Relationships\nTraffic, Supply Chain, Shipping and Sales. Functional Leaders: Engineering, Human Resources, Sales Operations, Sourcing, Finance, Operations, Executive leadership\nPhysical Demands\nMust able to lift 15 lbs. Be on the production floor 15% of the time and walk across plant multiple times per day\nWorking Conditions\nOffice and manufacturing facility. Approx. 15% of time on production floor\nProlec-GE Waukesha, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4467,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Power Grid","Electrical Equipment & Cables"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T19:31:56Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":43,"reasons":["conf:5","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/prolec-production-planner","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/prolec-production-planner.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T09:55:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23035,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1871870},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1871870"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fprolec-production-planner"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fprolec-production-planner"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fprolec-production-planner"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/prolec-production-planner\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fprolec-production-planner"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3980392}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"prolec.energy","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3980392},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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