Senior Production Planner - Master Scheduling & S&OP

HYNES INDUSTRIES INC•Austintown, OH

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Production Planner owns an integrated, feasible production plan that aligns demand with equipment, tooling, labor, and material. The role develops forward-looking scheduling, capacity-planning, and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) disciplines to improve delivery and margin. The planning scope includes roll forming and rolling, progressive die stamping, data center fabrication cells, and outside processing. The planner builds and releases finite schedules over a 0–4 week horizon and maintains rough-cut capacity plans for constraint equipment and labor over a 1–6 month horizon. The role owns time-phased coil, strip, and purchased-component requirements and runs the monthly S&OP cycle, including preparing demand, supply, and capacity views; framing decisions; facilitating meetings; and closing actions. The planner maintains the agreed master production schedule and accurate ERP planning data. The role publishes plans to Production, Maintenance, Quality, Purchasing, and Sales; provides daily huddle input; leads weekly schedule reviews; investigates schedule misses; and drives corrective actions. It decides schedule release and load balancing within agreed capacity, assesses order changes, and recommends scenarios involving shifts, overtime, outsourcing, or equipment timing. Risks and customer-priority conflicts are escalated according to the stated decision rights and thresholds. The position is based at the Youngstown Manufacturing Headquarters in Youngstown, Ohio, and involves on-site office and production-floor work. PPE is required on the production floor. Occasional off-hours contact supports lines that run 24/7.

Requirements

At least seven years in discrete manufacturing planning, master scheduling, or production control.
Experience owning multi-work-center schedules and shared-constraint capacity plans.
Experience leading an S&OP process or a significant part of one.
Strong ERP/MRP skills.
Advanced Excel skills, including scenario modeling.
Clear writing and presentation skills, including the ability to present quantified options and trade-offs to senior leadership and align cross-functional teams.
Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, industrial engineering, operations, or business, or equivalent relevant experience.
Systems thinking, analytical judgment, composure under disruption, influence without authority, proactive communication, and discipline in maintaining planning commitments.

Nice To Haves

ASCM/APICS CPIM certification, or willingness to earn it within 18 months.
Coil-fed metals experience, including roll forming, stamping, and steel or copper planning.
Experience with advanced planning and scheduling (APS) tools, Power BI, SQL, new program launches, Lean methods, and Theory of Constraints.

Responsibilities

Build and release finite schedules over a 0–4 week horizon, accounting for tooling, changeovers, crew coverage, material availability, and outside-processing lead times.
Balance delivery commitments, changeover cost, and line efficiency; define the release window for supervisors’ daily sequencing.
Maintain work-center rules, run standards, changeover times, and crew requirements.
Maintain 1–6 month rough-cut capacity plans for constraint equipment and labor; identify overloads and underloads and support decisions about shifts, overtime, outsourcing, and equipment timing.
Model demand shifts, customer push-outs, downtime, late material, and program ramps, and recommend scenarios with quantified service, cost, and inventory trade-offs.
Own time-phased coil, strip, and purchased-component requirements by grade, gauge, and width; flag risks where commitments precede firm customer demand.
Run the monthly S&OP cycle by collecting Sales demand, preparing supply and capacity views, framing decisions, facilitating meetings, and closing actions.
Maintain the agreed master production schedule.
Propose and administer time fences and order-change rules; assess pull-ins and push-outs against capacity, material, and other customers, and quantify raw material, WIP, and finished-goods exposure for commercial discussions.
Publish plans to Production, Maintenance, Quality, Purchasing, and Sales; provide daily huddle input; lead weekly schedule reviews; investigate misses; and drive corrective actions.
Escalate risks promptly with options, including same-day escalation when specified order, capacity, material, or customer-exposure triggers are met.
Maintain accurate ERP planning data, including routings, run rates, and lead times, in coordination with responsible functions; improve scheduling tools and reporting.
Decide schedule release and load balancing within agreed capacity; accept qualifying pull-ins or push-outs outside the frozen zone within policy when other customers are unaffected, and inform Sales.
Obtain Operations leader approval for frozen-zone changes; refer customer-priority conflicts to S&OP or Operations leadership; recommend overtime, shifts, and outsourcing.
Track weekly delivery, schedule adherence, frozen-zone changes, constraint load, and material availability measures, as well as monthly customer push-out exposure and S&OP completion and action closure.