Production Planner

Trane Technologies • Clarksville, TN

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Trane Technologies is hiring a Production Planner in Clarksville, Tennessee. This onsite role prepares schedules for shipping and receiving materials, controls the flow of goods, implements materials-handling procedures, and monitors activity costs and effectiveness to optimize resources. The planner also oversees inventory control systems that track purchase-order status, inventory levels, and production requirements. The role interprets inventory requests, production schedules, orders, and other documents to coordinate materials-handling activities with current and anticipated demand.

The Production Planner coordinates material requirements and establishes manufacturing priorities consistent with customer demand, master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and service-level goals. The planner develops schedules for new product groups, applies Lean production tools, manages aftermarket and rejected or rework product planning, and works with cross-functional teams to address shortages, delayed shipments, priorities, and other production issues. The position is designated Safety Sensitive and may require additional drug screening.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, or 2–5 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• At least two years of experience in operations, inventory management, MRP, and Lean manufacturing processes.
• Experience with rate-based or flow-line (non-MRP) and job-shop manufacturing environments.
• Experience with visual management systems.

Nice To Haves

• APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) preferred.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate material requirements.
• Establish production manufacturing priorities based on customer demand, master scheduling requirements, inventory objectives, and service-level goals.
• Develop new product group schedules in accordance with manufacturing build schedules.
• Implement production tools for building to actual customer demand, including Kanbans, build prioritization, expediting, and automated transactions aligned with Lean concepts.
• Manage aftermarket planning.
• Manage planning for rejected and rework products.
• Coordinate manufacturing activities and monitor schedule performance against plan to maintain priorities and meet established schedules.
• Meet daily with cross-functional teams to resolve delayed customer shipments, component shortages, overtime, priorities, and identified problems.
• Work critical-shortage reports daily and update appropriate cause codes for service-level reporting.
• Identify and resolve problems.
• Participate in identifying obsolete and surplus assembly inventory and recommend its disposition.
• Prepare shipping and receiving schedules, implement materials-handling procedures, and monitor activity costs and effectiveness.
• Oversee inventory control systems tracking purchase orders, inventory levels, and production requirements.
• Interpret inventory requests, production schedules, orders, and other documents to coordinate materials handling with current and anticipated demand.

Benefits

• Health insurance and holistic wellness programs with incentives, effective on day one for the employee and family.
• Family-building benefits, including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• Paid time off, including up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options supporting volunteer and parental leave.
• 401(k) match.
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs, tuition assistance, and student debt support.

What This Job Offers

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