Associate Production Planner

Textron • Williamsport, PA

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About The Position

The Associate Production Planner identifies and evaluates changing demand and supply conditions using modeling tools to proactively maintain a balanced production plan. The role resolves issues that create imbalances to support on-time delivery of parts and products to production teams and customers. It works across business departments and coordinates with Procurement, Manufacturing, Operations Management, manufacturing supervision, demand owners, and the Planning Manager to align supply with demand and support production and refurbishment activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or associate degree in Supply Chain or another relevant field is strongly preferred.
• Decision-making skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s or associate degree in Supply Chain or another relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Provide Lycoming with a long-range look-ahead of 30 or more days to identify shortages and facilitate workaround planning.
• Identify potential imbalances between demand and supply throughout the planning horizon, including critical long-pole shortages, capacity constraints, and schedule imbalances that could cause unrealistic flow rates.
• Coordinate actions needed to align supply with demand, including work with Procurement, Manufacturing, Operations Management, and demand owners to realign demand when needed.
• Provide directional input to production and refurbishment cells based on informational analysis and direct coordination with the Planning Manager.
• Coordinate major factory-floor activities that may affect job schedules or available net capacity at critical constraints, such as machine downtime, manpower adjustments, or missing machine group codes, and adjust the plan as needed.
• Manage shop loads and develop plans to balance critical resources in collaboration with manufacturing supervision, supporting effective, cost-conscious equipment utilization.
• Support delivery of product to the customer.
• Deliver accurate and timely data in support of refurbishment and production cells.
• Identify and monitor constraints.
• Work across business departments.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules.
• Education assistance up to $10,000.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
• Career development and thousands of training opportunities.
• Wellness programs, including fitness reimbursement.
• Dress for your Day policies.
• Employee discounts for over 30,000 merchants.
• Over five weeks of paid time off (PTO) per year.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with company funding.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree