Planner

The Planner is a deadline-driven production role motivated by the challenge of continuously improving sales forecasts and hitting organizational targets. The Planner plays an integral role in developing department goals and controls in fast paced manufacturing. The Planner will coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments according to daily and weekly productions schedules. This role offers the opportunity to broaden your capabilities and grow technically while contributing to innovating solutions that can genuinely affect change. The Planner schedules Transportation and Telecom production requirements to ensure timely delivery of quality products to Saft customers consistent with Saft engineering and quality documentation while building a team focused on continuous improvement.

• Associate degree in Supply Chain Supply Chain Management Engineering or a related field OR equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability
• Minimum 2 years planning experience
• Understanding of ERP and Microsoft Office
• Understanding of sales forecasting techniques purchasing lead times and customer lead time requirements

• Create and maintain production work and shipment schedules prioritize job orders for production optimization.
• Follow up as required with all teams to expedite flow of material and documents to meet production schedule and customer expectations.
• Interact with shop floor management on a daily basis to resolve issued regarding manufacturing efficiencies or to provide additional information as requested from Manufacturing Customer Service and Accounting.
• Confer with department supervisor to determine progress of work and completion dates; inventory levels and solving production problems.
• Maintain and track customer testing requirements ensure testing has begun and competed in a timely manner.
• Ensure compliance to all applicable governmental environmental and ISO 9001 regulations requirements as well as Saft policies and procedures.

Whether you are just getting started or are an experienced professional we offer a robust total rewards package to include generous compensation based on market standards healthcare wellness adoption assistance discounted stock purchase career development and recognition programs. Some of our superior benefits include parental (maternal and paternal) leave 401K retirement contribution match at 7% educational assistance (tuition reimbursement) Short-term Disability (STD) paid holidays paid vacation and paid employee referral award.

We appreciate diverse skills/experience and yours could add immense value to our team. Our customers have varied backgrounds and so do our employees. If you are excited about leaving your footprint on our technical customer-centric solutions while increasing sales we would love to hear from you.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of sex race creed color gender religion marital status domestic partner status age national origin or ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition sexual orientation pregnancy military or veteran status and genetic information. If you require an accommodation to complete the application or interview process please contact us by email at and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Saft is a global battery company like no other! Our long experience and pioneering spirit combined with our unique industrial approach puts us in a leading position to meet the needs of the most demanding customers. Our batteries and battery systems make a different in every market sector they serve.

Established in 19 countries and supported by our 16 production sites Saft has more than 4300 employees around the world and more than 3000 customers across a range of industries.

Since 2016 Saft is a wholly owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies a global integrated energy company that produces and markets various forms of energy including oil biofuels natural gas green gases renewables and electricity. With 100000 employees TotalEnergies is committed to provide reliable affordable and sustainable energy to as many people as possible. The company operates in approximately 120 countries and places sustainability at the core of its strategy projects and operations.