Director of Planning and Production Coordination

Find Your Opportunity•Fargo, ND

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Planning and Production Coordination leads enterprise planning and production coordination across CSP, Tank, and Structural product lines. This role establishes consistent planning standards, aligns demand with capacity, ensures production readiness, balances workloads across sites, and supports reliable customer commitments. The Director owns the planning system and coordination processes and leads planning leaders and production coordination supervision. The role partners across manufacturing and business functions, governs planning data and transactions in approved systems, and provides the VP of Manufacturing with updates and recommendations on planning risks, delivery, capacity, material, organizational needs, and trends. Travel to manufacturing sites is required. The position is on-site in Fargo, North Dakota, with a Monday–Friday schedule of 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and additional hours based on business demand.

Requirements

Strong knowledge of manufacturing planning, scheduling, capacity management, production coordination, inventory, and shop-floor execution.
Ability to lead leaders and standardize planning processes across multiple manufacturing sites or business units.
Working knowledge of ERP-supported planning, bills of material, routing, work centers, job release, inventory, and production transactions.
Strong analytical judgment and ability to balance customer commitments, manufacturing capability, cost, and business risk.
Effective communication, facilitation, change leadership, and cross-functional influence skills.
High integrity, accountability, attention to detail, sound judgment, and a bias toward action.
Commitment to safety, quality, customer service, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Administration, Construction Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
Minimum of ten years of progressive responsible experience in manufacturing operations, planning, scheduling, supply chain, project coordination, or a related field is preferred, including five years of leadership experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading multi-site planning or operational processes.
Experience with ERP-supported planning and cross-functional improvement.
Experience in steel fabrication, metal manufacturing, project-based manufacturing, or a related industrial environment.

Responsibilities

Embrace and demonstrate the qualities of the TrueNorth Steel Game Changer definition.
Comply with safety, quality, environmental, and workplace requirements.
Lead, coach, and develop CSP, Tank, and Structural Planning Leaders and the Production Coordinator Supervisor, establishing expectations, accountability, and succession coverage.
Establish and continuously improve an integrated planning and production-coordination system with common standards, planning horizons, terminology, decision rights, data requirements, and escalation paths.
Align customer demand, forecasts, backlog, inventory, labor, equipment, material availability, and site capability into executable production plans.
Confirm customer commit-date feasibility using verified readiness, material, capacity, outside-processing, site, and delivery information.
Provide an enterprise view of capacity and constraints, and lead approved workload-balancing actions such as site transfers, priority changes, outsourcing, overtime, and staffing adjustments.
Define and enforce production-readiness requirements for drawings, bills of material, routing, material, CNC and nesting information, quality requirements, outside services, job packets, shipping information, and approvals.
Lead site, product-line, and enterprise planning reviews covering demand, capacity, backlog, readiness, schedule performance, risks, and decisions requiring action.
Partner with Manufacturing, Sales, Project Management, Estimating, Drafting, Engineering, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Quality, Shipping, Logistics, Finance, and other functions to resolve planning constraints.
Govern planning and production-coordination data and transactions in SyteLine, Tekla, and other approved systems, including capacity assumptions, work-center data, production status, and readiness information.
Define performance measures and dashboards for schedule, backlog, capacity, readiness, equipment use, changes, and failure-related costs; use data to improve delivery, throughput, material utilization, and profitability.
Establish repeatable standard work, documentation, training, cross-training, and backup coverage to reduce dependence on individual knowledge.
Serve as the escalation point for significant cross-site, cross-product, and cross-functional planning issues; elevate unresolved matters with facts, alternatives, risks, and recommendations.
Support annual business, capacity, capital, workforce, and budget planning, along with strategic manufacturing initiatives.
Provide the VP of Manufacturing with regular updates on planning risks, delivery, capacity, material, organizational needs, trends, and recommended actions.
Travel to manufacturing sites to understand processes, build relationships, support teams, and ensure consistent implementation of planning and production-coordination standards.
Maintain prompt and dependable attendance.
Perform other duties as assigned.