Production Planning Manager — Gas Turbine Manufacturing Repair

PROENERGY•Houston, TX

15h•Onsite

About The Position

PROENERGY is an engineering, R&D, and manufacturing powerhouse that addresses every need for fast-start power generation, including turbine and package manufacturing, turnkey project execution, power purchase agreements, and asset lifecycle care for turbines and plants. The company provides innovative aeroderivative solutions to energy challenges. PROENERGY is investing significantly in its infrastructure, with expansions in Sedalia, Missouri, and Houston, Texas, as well as an engineering office in Kansas City and worldwide service centers. The company's philosophy centers on taking care of its people and making a positive difference in the world, offering competitive pay and excellent benefits. This Production Planning Manager role leads production planning and control for an assigned value stream in gas turbine manufacturing, converting demand into a sequenced, executable, capacity-feasible schedule. The role owns the published schedule and its commitments, the demonstrated-capacity model, material flow to the schedule, and the master data and transaction discipline required for an enterprise ERP. Success is defined by a value stream that delivers to schedule, with improving adherence, proactive escalation of shortages, and a team developed into system-fluent planning professionals. This specific position leads the GTM Repair and Overhaul value stream at the Houston depot and aero repair facility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field — or equivalent progressive experience.
5+ years in production control, planning, or scheduling within high-mix, low-volume manufacturing or MRO operations, with direct people-leadership experience.
Working knowledge of gas turbine or complex mechanical assembly/disassembly flows, including condition-driven scope growth and its scheduling implications.
Hands-on ERP experience (implementation, migration, or power-user depth), including data cleansing, user acceptance testing, or cutover.
Strong Excel and capacity-analysis capability.
Demonstrated ability to run disciplined manual or spreadsheet-based scheduling in the absence of system support — and to lead a team out of that state.
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work authorized visa.
Successful candidates will need to satisfactorily complete pre-employment drug screen and background check.

Nice To Haves

Aviation, gas turbine, or complex rotating-equipment repair/overhaul experience.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations experience.
APICS/ASCM certification (CPIM or CSCP).
Familiarity with Lean manufacturing and daily management systems.

Responsibilities

Own the daily and weekly production schedule for repair and overhaul work centers, sequencing engine inductions through disassembly, inspection, repair, and reassembly against turnaround-time (TAT) commitments.
Delegate daily engine and cell-level sequencing to the production scheduler while retaining ownership of the published schedule and its commitments.
Run ERP-based Master Planning (MRP) as the system of record after go-live.
Drive schedule adherence as the site’s core operating metric: measure and publish on-time-to-schedule performance, level-load constraint work centers from demonstrated capacity data, protect turnaround-time commitments, and lead recovery planning when adherence breaks.
Lead master data readiness and integrity for the repair scope: drive cleansing and validation of item masters, routings, work centers, and bill-of-material structures to migration standards.
After go-live, enforce transaction timeliness and accuracy (labor, material issues, completions) so work-in-process position, priorities, and promise dates reflect reality.
Map and maintain work-center capacity: document demonstrated capacity, setup and cycle durations, and constraint operations across the repair value stream — converting tribal knowledge into planning parameters the system can consume, and keeping them current as processes improve.
Serve as a functional lead through the ERP implementation: execute user acceptance testing for production planning transactions, drive defect resolution, build the cutover plan for open work orders and work-in-process, and own planned-order review, exception management, and release discipline in the system thereafter.
Run material flow to the schedule: establish staging, kitting, and shortage-escalation disciplines through the material coordinator team, replacing informal expediting with defined process.
Partner with site continuous improvement leadership on improvement events targeting schedule attainment, expedite reduction, and shortage-driven disruption; standardize planning standard work.
Develop the team: coach the scheduler, planners, material planners, and coordinators into system-fluent professionals, build bench depth, and establish clear role standards and performance expectations.