Production Planner/Scheduling (MRP)

Leprino Foods • Lubbock, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Within our manufacturing facility in Lubbock – Leprino is seeking a Production Planner (MRP) to move our organization to even larger levels of cheese and dairy ingredient growth! We take pride in our vision to be "world's best", it is why we work harder, invest more, and continually innovate. What You’ll Do: Own short- and mid-term production plans that balance customer demand, milk supply, capacity, inventory targets, and operational constraints Execute and maintain MRP outputs, including work orders, material requirements, safety stocks, lead times, and planning parameters Manage raw material, packaging, pallet, and reprocessed inventories to ensure material availability, freshness, and proper rotation Adjust production schedules in response to demand changes, supply disruptions, quality holds, downtime, or yield variability Partner daily with production, procurement, quality, logistics, and customer service to resolve planning conflicts and execution gaps Optimize production sequencing, blending, and changeovers to support service levels, cost targets, and plant efficiency Identify planning issues (material shortages, excess inventory, infeasible schedules) and drive corrective actions Support inter-plant transfers and coordination to balance network-wide supply and demand

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Product Management, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in supply chain, production planning, product management, or other relevant experience
• Hands-on experience working in an MRP or ERP system (SAP strongly preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of inventory fundamentals (raw materials, WIP, finished goods)

Nice To Haves

• Experience planning in food, beverage, dairy, or other process manufacturing environments
• Experience managing trade-offs between demand, capacity, inventory, and service levels
• Comfort working cross-functionally with production, procurement, quality, and logistics teams
• Experience supporting inter-plant or network-wide planning
• Strong Excel skills for analysis and exception management
• Familiarity with planning parameters such as safety stock, lead times, lot sizing, and sequencing constraints

Responsibilities

• Own short- and mid-term production plans that balance customer demand, milk supply, capacity, inventory targets, and operational constraints
• Execute and maintain MRP outputs, including work orders, material requirements, safety stocks, lead times, and planning parameters
• Manage raw material, packaging, pallet, and reprocessed inventories to ensure material availability, freshness, and proper rotation
• Adjust production schedules in response to demand changes, supply disruptions, quality holds, downtime, or yield variability
• Partner daily with production, procurement, quality, logistics, and customer service to resolve planning conflicts and execution gaps
• Optimize production sequencing, blending, and changeovers to support service levels, cost targets, and plant efficiency
• Identify planning issues (material shortages, excess inventory, infeasible schedules) and drive corrective actions
• Support inter-plant transfers and coordination to balance network-wide supply and demand

Benefits

• Through competitive salaries and bonuses, life, medical/dental/vision coverage, voluntary benefits, employee assistance programs, wellness incentives, tuition assistance, vacation, ten paid holidays, sick time, paid parental leave, annual merit increases, as well as the LFC Profit-Sharing & 401(k) plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level