Senior Planner / Scheduler

ZF Group•Gray Court, SC

About The Position

The Senior Planner/Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and stabilizing the master production schedule to ensure optimal service levels, efficient capacity utilization, and alignment with customer demand. The role drives end-to-end production planning across internal operations and external suppliers while balancing inventory, throughput, and operational constraints. The position creates and improves information flow, schedules production in response to customer demand, supports product launches, applies lean production principles, and monitors logistics process performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
0–3+ years of experience in materials planning and/or customer planning in a manufacturing environment.
Experience with an ERP system.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office software, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Good written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills.
Must be authorized to work in the United States now and in the future without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience with SAP.
Two years of experience in the automotive industry.

Responsibilities

Create, maintain, and improve information flow, ensuring deliveries reach the right place at the right time, in the right quantity and quality, and in the right condition.
Create demands and/or production schedules for internal or external suppliers based on internal or external customer demands.
Perform assigned product launch activities in cooperation with internal and/or external suppliers or customers.
Perform assigned activities in accordance with lean production principles and aim toward a total cost optimum.
Develop, monitor, analyze, and/or improve KPIs for assigned logistics processes.