3M Hiring for Production Planner at Aberdeen, South Dakota Full Time

Job Description:

Production Planner (Aberdeen, SD)

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 96,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.

“For more than 30 years at 3M, I’ve seen firsthand how it’s a place where curious, creative and collaborative people thrive and build a rewarding career. As a leader in this company, my goal is to ensure each 3Mer sees and feels the positive impact we’re making around the world” – Mike Roman, CEO and Chairman of the Board at 3M

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military environments to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this RoleAs a Production Planner, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading cross functional projects across the business to effectively drive change in service, cost, and inventory.

• Developing and maintaining operating rhythms to ensure smooth supply chain operations, aligning supply with demand.

• Providing a high degree of planning analysis to support decision making.

• Publishing and presenting service and inventory metrics and results.

• Identifying and leading projects that improve supply chain speed and inventory investment.

• Reviewing reports on project progress with management.

• Working closely with the business unit to understand customer requirements and forecasts.

• Working closely with manufacturing to ensure alignment to business requirements by setting and maintaining sufficient inventory levels and lead times.

• Actively managing working and non-working inventories in assigned businesses to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets.

• Utilizing Supply Chain tools and processes such as DMPT, Peoplesoft, GDMR, SAP, MES.

• Utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve service, inventory turns, and non-working inventory

• Utilizing Supply Chain parameter management tools to optimize planning parameters (safety stock, lot size, EOQ, Loop & Supermarket, lead time)

Your Skills and Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution

OR

• Working towards a Bachelor’s degree that will be completed within twelve (12) months of hire date from an accredited institution

• Two (2) years combined experience in supply chain, transportation, logistics, manufacturing, production, and/or customer service in a private, public, government or military environment.

• Proficient in Microsoft office – (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

• Experience with a Manufacturing Execution and/or Planning System (e.g. SAP, Proprietary, Oracle, JDA, etc.)

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) CPIM certification is preferred. If not complete at the time this position is assumed, the certification will become part of the employee professional development plan as agreed between management and the employee.

• Six Sigma Green Belt project experience and/or certification

• Experience with an ERP (e.g. SAP, Oracle, etc.)

• Experience in Lean Scheduling or Lean Manufacturing

• Experience with Microsoft VBA Macros, SQL, MS Cloud Apps (e.g. Teams, SharePoint, Power BI).

Travel: May include up to10% Domestic

Location: Aberdeen, SD – This is not a Remote Position

Relocation Assistance: Authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Resources for You

For more details on what happens before, during and after the interview process, check out the Insights for Candidates page at 3M.com/careers.

Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions to the world’s problems at www.3M.com or on Twitter @3M.

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M’s business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

3M is an equal opportunity employer. 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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