Production Planner

About Verdant Specialty Solutions

Verdant Specialty Solutions is a global specialty chemical company. Its customers include world-leading personal care and home care brands, energy solutions providers, and industrial companies. Verdant’s vision is to be the go-to provider of batch specialty surfactant-based chemistry for applications in the consumer and industrial markets. Based in Houston, the company has nine locations in the US and Europe. Verdant’s international team of 280 employees are committed to safety, quality, and supply reliability.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

To operate within and maintain all appropriate Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality standards in order to ensure that the products and services provided by the site comply with regulatory and company standards and customer expectations.

The role of the Production Planner is to work closely with relevant departments and be responsible for scheduling the production plans to meet the customer demand and stock levels.

• Production planning to meet demands within production capacity/constraints.
• Owns and co-ordinates the production schedule execution with all relevant functions (Production, Procurement, Warehousing/Logistics, Maintenance)
• Use ERP system to manage day-to-day activities
• Actively participate in meetings to communicate/enable other departments activities
• Raw material requirements management within the ERP system to enable purchasing/procurement activities by purchasing function.
• Ensure raw materials are available at plant level to satisfy the production schedule
• Raw materials, finished goods and in-process products, co-ordinate inventory reviews with production, quality, and purchasing to set agreed stock levels and manage slow moving and out of spec materials
• Support production and purchasing administration
• Assist in developing systems
• Support for COMAH inventory management

Previous experience in a manufacturing, complex, multi product, multi line environment is essential

Key Skills and attributes for success:

• Customer focused – experience of dealing with internal and external customers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships at all levels
• Self-starter with strong problem solving ability

• Confident and able to challenge situations to resolution
• Systems aware – Advanced Microsoft excel, and ERP planning tools.
• High attention to detail