Production Planner
About The Position
The Production Planner plays a pivotal role in coordinating and optimizing production workflows to meet the combined demands of safety stock, forecasting, and customer orders. This position ensures a responsive and customer-focused approach to service inquiries while driving on-time delivery, production efficiency, and inventory accuracy. You’re a proactive, detail-driven planner who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You take ownership of your work, react quickly to shifting priorities, and bring a strong sense of urgency to everything you do. You thrive on balancing forecasts, inventory, and customer demand to build schedules that make sense and deliver results.
Requirements
- 2+ years of Supply Chain/Production planning experience in a manufacturing environment
- Extensive working knowledge MRP (Materials Requirement Planning) systems required, SAP preferred
- Working knowledge of Bill-of-Material and Production routings preferred
- Intermediate MS-Office experience required, advanced experience preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- High level of proactive and organized work habits
- Analytical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to draw conclusions from data
- Exhibit a strong spirit of collaboration across various teams and departments
- Ability to think and operate independently
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of Bill-of-Material and Production routings preferred
- advanced experience in MS-Office preferred
Responsibilities
- Manage and adjust production schedules across multiple product lines to meet demand, material availability and labor capacity.
- Review daily output, determine bottlenecks, and evaluate inventory levels to maintain efficient operations.
- Monitor on-time delivery performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with Order Management and Manufacturing teams to align production goals and resolve scheduling conflicts.
- Notify internal teams of updated shipping schedules and any modifications to lead times.
- Participate in daily and monthly production meetings to address issues such as material shortages, equipment downtime, and resource constraints.
- Investigate missed shipments, identify root causes and work with teams to prevent future delays.
- Analyze planning parameters to balance delivery timelines, production efficiency and inventory levels.
- Lead order-related communications and activities for customer accounts.
- Oversee implementation of Engineering Change Notices.
- Recommend adjustments to product lead time based on scheduling constraints.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen internal customer relationships and improve service levels.
- Participate in cross-training to support other Supply Chain roles as needed.
- Complete reporting tasks and other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Insurance – multiple plan options
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Dental Insurance
- FSA, HSA options
- Vision Insurance
- 401k with company match, fully vested
- Paid Time Off
- 10 company paid holidays
- Company paid disability & AD&D insurance
- 100% paid parental leave after one year of service
- Supplemental insurance plans (Identity theft, cyber protection, additional life, etc.)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Many of our positions offer flexible schedules to meet your needs
- Relaxed business casual environment
- Sit/Stand desks for onsite office positions
- Frequent team building activities
- Career development opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
