Production Planning Intern

Job Title: Production Planning Intern Job ID: 41260 Job Location: Rochester, NY Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

Job Description

As an intern in the production planning role, you will assist in planning, scheduling, and monitoring manufacturing status and approval of products through the entire production cycle to meet production, and ultimately customer, requirements. You will work from engineering plans and production specifications to ensure timely provision of materials. Additionally, you will advise management on the status of work in progress, coordinate with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams, and interface with engineering, program management, and external customers. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the availability of materials and labor to meet production needs and delivery commitments, as well as resolving labor and material shortages, backlogs, and other potential schedule interruptions.

Essential Functions

Develop and implement manufacturing build plans to meet customer contractual delivery schedules

Utilize Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) system to input Master Schedule build plans, track material availability, status kit readiness, release shop orders, and maintain all shop order records and inventory integrity

Update and maintain make items lead times within MRP system

Manage floor stock of program components

Work jointly with Manufacturing and Quality teams to execute build schedule and address any issues in a timely manner

Work with Materials Planners to proactively manage the schedule and material dock dates to ensure accuracy of planning

Provide hardware status, updates and performance statistics to program team based on status of hardware through Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Some things to include if needed / depending on the role:

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