Capacity Planner

Sojo Industries (“Sojo“) is a fast-growing national industrial automation company that utilizes robotics, mobility, and software to deliver efficient packaging and assembly solutions to the food and beverage industry.

Sojo Flight, Sojo utilizes its proprietary mobile manufacturing offering to eliminate freight costs, labor costs, packaging costs and harmful emissions by delivering on-site packaging services. Sojo has also developed its own proprietary blockchain-based track and trace software platform, Sojo Shield, which utilizes sophisticated data capture and geo-location technologies to enable customers to comply with federally mandated food safety requirements.

Sojo manages a national footprint of bricks and mortar facilities across the country in Pennsylvania, California, Indianapolis, and Texas and maintains mobile manufacturing sites throughout the US. All locations rely on high-speed automated lines that support a variety of packaging materials such as registered shrink, top loaded boxes, and side loaded cartons to name a few and incorporate robotics into the assembly process.

The Sojo team is comprised of seasoned executives and operators from the food and beverage industry, and customers include Fortune 500 brands, distributors, and manufacturers.

Position Summary

The Capacity Planner will manage daily operations for the Sojo West region, overseeing the Redlands, CA hub and all regional flight locations.

Responsibilities Include:

• Receive customer forecasts and produce production schedules to meet customer demand
• Monitor daily production activity and adjust schedule as necessary
• Publish daily/weekly/monthly production plans to all appropriate stakeholders
• Create work orders and regularly update forecasts in Sojo’s operating system
• Plan, order and ensure accurate delivery of packaging materials for production
• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to ensure proper labor, daily targets and materials are planned and realized
• Participate in customer touchpoints with Sojo Commercial Team, filtering all necessary details to Sojo Operations, Engineering and Finance teams
• Oversee inbound/outbound loads to ensure production requirements and customer demands are met
• Assist with master data set up of new customer and/or new products in Sojo’s operating system
• All other tasks as assigned