Senior Production Planner

B-O-F Corporation • Aurora, IL

28d • $82,000 - $105,000

About The Position

B-O-F Corporation is seeking a Senior Production Planner to coordinate customer demand, materials, and production in a fast-paced, growing manufacturing operation. The planner will build and maintain the master production schedule, plan material requirements and inventory levels, resolve ERP/MRP exceptions, and balance demand, capacity, changeovers, and material constraints. The role also involves making tradeoff decisions as priorities change and reporting planning performance to operations leadership.

This is a highly cross-functional role working closely with sales, production, purchasing, shipping, and customer support. The Senior Production Planner serves as a central point of coordination to keep teams aligned on the production plan and improve how work gets done.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in production planning, scheduling, or materials/inventory planning in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience owning end-to-end planning, ideally on a small operations team.
• Hands-on experience with an ERP/MRP system for planning, scheduling, and inventory management.
• Experience with demand forecasting, inventory planning, production scheduling, and capacity planning.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency using Excel to model schedules, track exceptions, and analyze planning data.
• Ability to balance demand, capacity, and material availability and make clear tradeoff decisions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain scheduling tradeoffs to production-floor teams and leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Industrial Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with NetSuite.
• Experience helping build or improve planning processes, especially in a growing company.

Responsibilities

• Review sales orders, quotes, and contracts to determine deadlines, quantities, specifications, and production requirements.
• Build, revise, and distribute master production schedules that account for sales commitments, machine and labor capacity, and material lead times.
• Sequence jobs to balance production efficiency, changeovers, setup time, and on-time delivery.
• Create and release accurate work orders in NetSuite and ensure materials are picked and staged before production begins.
• Re-prioritize schedules when rush orders, cancellations, or capacity changes arise, and inform affected teams of changes.
• Coordinate sales, production, purchasing, and shipping so teams work from the same timeline.
• Work with customers on delivery timelines, order status, and special requests, managing expectations when conflicts arise.
• Coordinate with suppliers and freight providers on inbound and outbound timing, and escalate and resolve delays.
• Work with customer support to communicate shipping delays early and provide revised timelines and alternatives where possible.
• Coordinate with department leads to ensure materials, tooling, and paperwork move smoothly through production.
• Identify recurring bottlenecks, determine root causes, and drive cross-departmental fixes.
• Work with quality and production teams to trace product defects and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyze throughput, on-time delivery, schedule adherence, and downtime to identify trends and risks.
• Create recurring planning performance reports and dashboards, and present findings and recommendations to leadership.
• Recommend capacity solutions, including overtime, staffing, outsourcing, or equipment investment, based on demand trends.
• Lead or contribute to process improvements that reduce lead times and improve schedule reliability.

Benefits

• Two weeks of paid time off available to use upon start date.
• 11 paid holidays, including a floating holiday.
• Paid volunteer day.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance offerings for employees and their families.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) program with no waiting period and immediate vesting.

What This Job Offers

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