The board
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- US, Iowa, Knoxville
- Posted
- Sep 15
Job Description:
Production Planning Analyst
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 wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.
This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Production Planning Analyst, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.
What you'd do
- Planning and scheduling of production work centers, monitor work center output to meet customer requirements and improve work center operational efficiency
- Strong written or oral communication with Production Planning, Lean Value Stream, and Operations Team members along with active participation in the Tier process
- Working closely with the business to understand customer requirements and forecasts.
- Working closely with the manufacturing team, value stream leadership, and Supply Planners to determine how best to prioritize and resolve supply constraints and balance service, inventory, and cost to meet business targets
- Parameter Management: optimizing and maintaining production lot sizes, production cycles and safety stocks to deliver the desired balance between inventory and service
- Managing capacity including identifying, resolving, and escalating production constraints. Managing assigned working and non-working inventories to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets
- Executing the production planning standard work utilizing supply chain tools, IT systems, and processes. Providing a high degree of planning analysis to support data-driven decision making
- Identifies, leads, and participates in Continuous Improvement projects that improve customer service, inventory investment, flow, and supply chain efficiency
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree, or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
- One (1) year of experience in Supply Chain and/or Logistic (including graduation research, internships and graduation projects) in a private, public, government or military environment.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain, Operations Management, and/or Business Analytics from an accredited institution
- Starts
- 2026-09-15