Production Planner II
About The Position
The Production Planner II leads production planning activities to meet customer demand while optimizing plant capacity, inventory performance, and supply-chain efficiency. The role develops and manages production plans across a rolling planning horizon, balancing demand forecasts, manufacturing capabilities, material availability, and inventory targets. Serving as a key coordinator among Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial teams, and manufacturing facilities, the planner leads Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) and production-planning meetings, facilitates Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) discussions, and identifies risks to customer service, inventory, and capacity utilization. The role owns schedule-adherence and capacity-utilization metrics and reports on operational performance. The planner also drives continuous improvement by resolving MRP discrepancies, enhancing planning processes, maintaining production-capacity data, and improving planning analytics and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tools. This position is based at the Trident Support Center in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. It is primarily on-site, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- At least three years of experience in production planning, material planning, S&OP, or a related supply-chain planning function within a CPG or manufacturing environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Enjoy working with numbers and be proficient at identifying insights from data.
- Excellent Excel skills.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Supply Chain or Business Management; an APICS or Six Sigma certification may be substituted for an MBA.
- Experience with supply-planning tools such as SAP or Oracle.
- Power Pivot skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop production plans over a rolling three-month horizon to deliver customer service goals while managing inventory levels.
- Review the capacity-to-demand ratio over a rolling 12-month horizon to support plant efficiency and inventory goals.
- Schedule and lead weekly cross-functional production-planning and S&OE meetings.
- Own production-planning metrics, including schedule adherence and capacity utilization.
- Collaborate weekly with plants to optimize schedules based on customer and SKU priorities, raw-material availability, and safety-stock goals.
- Review future risks to service or utilization and communicate them to Commercial and Operational leads.
- Schedule and participate in monthly RCCP meetings, communicating utilization and inventory build over the planning horizon.
- Propose incremental improvements to existing processes.
- Identify MRP discrepancies and propose solutions.
- Modify existing analytics tools in Excel as needed and propose improvements to IBP analytics tools.
- Work with plants to create and maintain a master list of production-line capacities.
- Monitor and report plant schedule adherence (PSA).
- Perform other duties as assigned to meet business requirements.
Benefits
- Discretionary or performance-based incentives may be available to eligible full-time employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- Optional HRA/HSA.
- Telemedicine.
- Employee assistance and wellness programs.
- Disability programs.
- Basic life and AD&D coverage.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Paid time off, with an initial full-time employee benefit of 20 days per year, adjusted based on relevant experience and prorated based on hire date.
- Ten paid holidays each year.
- Paid parental leave.
- Commuter programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
