Production Planner

Radiant Industries•El Segundo, CA

28d•Onsite

About The Position

Radiant is seeking a Production Planner responsible for ensuring production builds are supported by complete, accurate, and available material kits. This role focuses on analyzing kit readiness, identifying inventory gaps, coordinating shortage resolution, and ensuring internal and external production activities align with build schedules. The Production Planner will work closely with Supply Chain, Warehouse, Quality, Engineering, and internal manufacturing teams to ensure material availability, internal fabrication readiness, and outside processing activities are coordinated to support build execution. The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented, proactive, and capable of coordinating cross-functional teams to solve operational problems quickly.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or related field.
2+ years of experience in production planning, materials planning, manufacturing coordination, or supply chain operations.
Strong understanding of BOM structures, inventory management, and production material flow.
Experience working with ERP/MRP systems for production planning and inventory management.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes of material availability issues.
Excellent cross-functional communication and coordination skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with machine shops, fabrication operations, or manufacturing environments.
Familiarity with outside processing (OSP) workflows such as heat treatment, coatings, inspection or specialty finishing.
Experience supporting production kitting or manufacturing build readiness.
Familiarity with quality inspection processes, MRB workflows, or manufacturing run closures.
Experience improving operational processes in fast-moving production environments.

Responsibilities

Kit Readiness Analysis
Analyze production kits to determine material readiness prior to scheduled builds.
Identify shortages, zero-inventory conditions, and system discrepancies that prevent kit completion.
Maintain visibility of kit readiness status and escalate risks that could impact build schedules.
Inventory & Material Availability Management
Monitor inventory levels and system availability to ensure materials are available for production builds.
Investigate and resolve discrepancies related to inventory locations, quantity errors, or system availability settings.
Work with warehouse teams to ensure inventory is accurately received, stored, and available for picking.
Shortage Resolution & Cross-Functional Coordination
Coordinate resolution of material shortages across Procurement, Receiving, Quality, Engineering, and Production.
Track and manage actions required to resolve shortages including receiving backlog clearance, quality inspection completion, internal fabrication builds, or purchase order placement.
Maintain clear ownership and accountability for shortage resolution.
Receiving and Quality Coordination
Identify material blocked in receiving, inspection, or quality hold processes and coordinate closure actions.
Work with quality teams to prioritize inspection runs and release material needed for production.
Internal Production & Outside Processing Coordination
Coordinate and track internal production activities required to support production builds.
Monitor progress of internally fabricated components and ensure machining operations align with production priorities.
Manage and track outside processing (OSP) activities including heat treatment, plating, coatings, specialty machining, cleaning, welding, inspection, and other vendor-based processing steps.
Ensure materials requiring outside processing are scheduled, shipped, tracked, and returned in alignment with build schedules.
Work with manufacturing and supply chain teams to resolve delays or capacity constraints affecting internal or external production steps.
Production Support
Support kit picking and production readiness by ensuring required subassemblies and internally fabricated components are scheduled and available.
Coordinate with internal manufacturing teams when subassemblies must be built to complete kits.
Data Integrity & Process Improvement
Investigate part number mismatches, BOM discrepancies, or inventory data issues affecting kit availability.
Improve processes related to inventory visibility, receiving throughput, and kit readiness tracking.
Develop dashboards or tracking tools to improve visibility into production material readiness.

Benefits

Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.
One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents.
Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents.
Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.
Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.
Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.
Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.