Senior Production Planner

B-O-F Corporation • Aurora, CO

1d • Onsite

About The Position

B-O-F Corporation is seeking a Senior Production Planner to connect customer demand, materials, and the production floor in its fast-paced, growing operation. The planner will ensure products are built at the right time with the materials needed to support production. The role owns the master production schedule, material requirements and inventory planning, ERP/MRP exception resolution, and reporting on planning performance to operations leadership.

This highly cross-functional role works closely with sales, production, purchasing, shipping, and customer support. The planner balances demand, capacity, changeovers, and material constraints; makes tradeoff decisions when priorities shift; and keeps teams aligned on the current plan. The position is based at the company’s Illinois headquarters, with collaboration across internal teams, customers, suppliers, and freight providers.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in production planning, scheduling, or materials/inventory planning in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience owning planning end-to-end, ideally on a small operations team.
• Hands-on experience with an ERP/MRP system for planning, scheduling, and inventory management; NetSuite is preferred.
• Experience with demand forecasting, inventory planning, production scheduling, and capacity planning.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort using Excel to model schedules, track exceptions, and analyze planning data.
• Ability to balance competing priorities such as demand, capacity, and material availability, and make clear tradeoff decisions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with confidence explaining scheduling tradeoffs to production-floor teams and leadership.
• A bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Industrial Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience helping build or improve planning processes, especially in a growing company.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with NetSuite ERP/MRP.
• Experience owning end-to-end planning on a small operations team.
• Experience helping build or improve planning processes in a growing company.

Responsibilities

• Review incoming 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, including reducing changeovers and setup time, with on-time delivery.
• Create and release accurate work orders in NetSuite and ensure materials are picked and staged before production begins.
• Re-prioritize the schedule in response to rush orders, cancellations, or capacity changes, and inform affected teams of resulting changes.
• Serve as the main point of contact between sales, production, purchasing, and shipping to keep teams aligned on timelines.
• Work directly with customers on delivery timelines, order status, and special requests, managing expectations when conflicts arise.
• Partner with suppliers and freight providers to confirm inbound and outbound timing and escalate and resolve delays.
• Coordinate 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 between production stages.
• Identify recurring bottlenecks, determine root causes, and drive cross-departmental solutions.
• Work with quality and production teams to trace product defects to their source and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyze production data, including throughput, on-time delivery, schedule adherence, and downtime, to identify trends and risks.
• Build recurring reports and dashboards on planning performance and present findings and recommendations to leadership.
• Recommend capacity solutions, such as 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 to dedicate time to a cause of the employee’s choosing.
• Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance offerings for the employee and family.
• 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