Sr. Production Planner Scheduler

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

L.A. Turbine (LAT), a Chart Industries Company, is a design and manufacturing company creating application-specific, highly engineered turboexpanders that are used in hydrocarbon processing, geothermal power generation, and other power-recovery or refrigeration applications in industrial processes worldwide. Our turboexpander configurations include an expander-compressor with oil or active magnetic bearings, expander-generator, and expander-dyno (brake) units.  LAT also provides comprehensive aftermarket services including repair, redesign, spare part production and commissioning for all OEM turboexpander makes and models.

The company’s operation is vertically integrated with a best-in-class engineering team, a 90,000 sq. foot manufacturing facility staffed with skilled craftsman and equipment to perform component production with state-of-the-art CNC machinery; mechanical, PLC and electrical assembly; metal fabrication; packaging and in-house resonance, balancing, and mechanical run tests.  Company headquarters and manufacturing is in Valencia, California. The company’s global outreach is extended through 17 worldwide business partners.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be…

• Works closely with manufacturing supervisors and manufacturing engineering to provide for capacity plans. 
• Works closely with other sites to manage multiple product lines introduced to the facility.
• Provides both routine and specifically requested production analysis reports.
• Develops master schedule from the business plan and maintains it.
• Works with GSA’s to meet customer inventory expectations and improve on time delivery to acceptable levels.
• Place and maintain required purchase orders for suppliers or product groups.
• Drives materials utilizing MRP providing proper lead-time to purchasing.
• Develops production capacity planning tools for crew sizing.
• Identifies and resolves inventory related problems such as bill of material and routing errors, material substitutions.
• Provide training for buyers, associate buyers and other departments as needed.
• Disposition obsolete and defective inventory.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by management.

Your Education Should Be…

• A Bachelor's Degree in business, or related field or equivalent experience (APICS or other nationally approved certification).

Salary is estimated between $75,000-$110,000 annually DOE.

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand, walk and/or balance use hands and fingers to type, handle, feel, grasp, pushing, and pulling. The individual is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and talk and hear, operate office equipment (computer, copier, scanner, phone, etc.) and repetitive motion. The individual is occasionally required to climb, , stoop, kneel, or crouch. The individual may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. This position is subject to an office environment and rare occasions to an uncontrolled manufacturing shop with environmental conditions, which could expose associate to noise and oils as well as subjected to hazards such as, but not limited to, moving parts and vehicles, heat and chemicals.

Your Professional Experience Should Be…

• 5 years of experience related to scheduling/planning of resources, materials and labor needs in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience working with complex custom order products.
• Experience with MS Projects and/or Primavera 6.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Proven experience successfully partnering with cross functional teams.

Chart is an equal opportunity employer