Mueller Water Products has an immediate opening for a Foundry Production Planner at our Decatur, IL foundry location.

The Foundry Production Planner effectively plans and implements work for assigned production shops ensuring parts or materials and manpower are available for the shop to perform the work.

Primary Accountabilities: Primary accountabilities include:

Makes decisions to release, firm, cancel, or defer work based upon current inventory, demand, capacity, and material availability. Responsible for maintaining appropriate inventory levels.

Plans engineering changes to ensure ECN instructions are clear and compiled with; works with Production and Purchasing to stop procurement of material affected by change, keeps designated engineers informed of ECN implementation status; coordinates proper rotation of inventory to minimize scrap/reworked parts at incorporation time.

Conducts capacity analyses by specific work center/machine to determine the need for additional tools/capital equipment. Ensures capacity plan is followed. Troubleshoots potential capacity issues on an ongoing basis.

Implements Flow Manufacturing techniques into production. Understands and facilitates the use of KANBANs, Wait/Work Boards, and Method Sheets to ensure the highest quality and linearity are attainable to production in a Flow Manufacturing Environment.

Education: 

Bachelor's degree or master's degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Required Experience:

4 years progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in the discipline/technology/process related to the position.

Experience as a team member on project teams in a cross functional department.

Prefer some Foundry experience

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other category protected by law.