Manager, Plant Planning & Control

From a small family business to a multi-billion-dollar global company, Sonoco has been changing the face of products and packaging since 1899 - all while keeping the heart of "People Build Businesses" alive.

Our talented people are at the core of our growth, constantly reinventing the Sonoco wheel with brilliant solutions every year. Today we are a world leader in global packaging solutions with diversified operations in over 34 countries. We're extremely proud of our portfolio of brands, our achievements in sustainability and industrialization and the groundbreaking work accomplished by our people.

While reporting to the Administrative Manager, the position schedules orders and plans production jobs for the assigned equipment. The position is responsible to schedule jobs to minimize changeover and downtime, to include routine preventive maintenance, and to meet customer demands.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Supervises and directs the warehouse/planning and shipping/receiving functions as directed.

• May supervise and direct the purchasing and stores function as directed.

• Oversees planning and production scheduling of cans, ends, and plates for entire plant.

• Schedules production of products as necessary to fulfill customer requirements, meet shipping schedules, and maintains appropriate inventory levels.

• Provides daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly production, spoilage, sales, and production schedule data.

• Provides necessary records for raw material and finished goods inventory reporting systems, maintains, manages, reviews, and advises action on inventory reconciliation and resolution of problems. Coordinates and reviews semi-annual inventory.

• Provides requirements, scheduling, and shipments of scrap and finished goods.

• Supervises the receipt, storage, and control of raw material for use in production, initiates substitution requests for raw material as needed, and maintains and reviews rough cut capacity planning.

• Arranges for the ordering and shipment of metal and supplies with group purchasing.

• Forecasts production, sales, and metal requirements for plant and group office use.

• Maintains and directs routine material/production review meetings with plant production management personnel.

• Schedules raw materials for use in production and coordinates with group offices the shipment and in-plant inventories of metal.

• Assists the group sales function in budget and forecast comparisons.

• Assists the group sales function in customer inquiries and activities. Maintains and seeks resolution of customer complaints.

• Coordinates customer releases and orders with outside warehousing and other plants within the group.

• Assists in procuring transportation for customer and warehouse movement of finished products.

• May assist and advise the plant purchasing function in implementation of central stores reporting system and in seeking competitive pricing of goods and services.

• Reviews and orders ODM's needed for production.

• Assists Customer Service Reps (CSR) with customer forecasts.

• Performs CSR duties for Salmon customers.

This position is in a perfect location at our Oakdale, California facility.

We'd love to hear from you if:

• Broad training in a related field usually acquired through college or work related experience.

• Minimum of four years job related experience

This is a progression position and level will be based on candidate experience and business needs.

Compensation:

The annual base salary range for this role is from $100,960 to $113,580, plus quarterly target bonus of 12.5% of base salary.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.