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Production Planner, Manufacturing Reviews
What is it like working as a Production Planner, Manufacturing?
October 2016
Fast paced.
Production Planner, Manufacturing:
Pros: Negotiating with customers.
Cons: Prioritied Change minute to minute.
September 2016
Create reports and gather data.
Production Planner, Manufacturing:
Learn how MRP works; listen to internal customers.
June 2016
High intense.
Production Planner, Manufacturing:
Pros: Intereacting with the production team and supporting their needs. Bridging the gap between upper management and technicians. Being approachable and helpful to every member of staff.
Cons: The environment is high stress, and low recognition.
February 2016
GO TO COLLEGE.
Production Planner, Manufacturing:
Take advantage of education opportunities a company may offer you.
February 2016
Its challeging, in a good way most of the time.
Production Planner, Manufacturing:
Pros: I like that I have a direct impact in the overall outcome of production. It "is" where things happen. Its the only job I have had where team players do matter - I have been one, and have needed one many times. I have the best coworkers I have ever had in any of my previous jobs. Truly smart and kind people (90% of them at least).
Cons: Knowing who to listen to at crucial decision points is critical, whatever you choose, will follow you (not your advisor). Sometimes decision making is needed at points where not a lot of information is available - hence the wrong decision is made and cleaning up the mess afterwards gets pretty ugly pretty quickly - and one ends up with the hot potato.
October 2015
Production Planner.
Production Planner, Manufacturing:
Pros: I can work on my own, putting the pieces of a complex puzzle together with the help of sales, product management and production to meet the customer's needs.
Cons: The red tape and politics. The speed in which things get decided on. The idea that "it's not my job".
September 2015
CORPORATE CULTURE.
Production Planner, Manufacturing:
Pros: PLANNING.
Cons: WORK ENVIRONMENT.
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