Production Planner

Summary:

The Production Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining executable production and material plans that align manufacturing capacity, material availability, inventory objectives, customer demand, and forecast requirements. This role translates demand into production schedules and work-center priorities while proactively identifying and addressing material shortages, capacity constraints, and other risks that could impact customer commitments. The role works cross-functionally across supply chain, sales, and operations to establish production priorities, identify and resolve supply or capacity risks, maintain accurate ERP/MRP planning data, and support consistent schedule adherence and on-time delivery.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must meet expectations of each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required.

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree Preferred – Preferably Supply Chain Management, Business, Accounting, or Engineering

Experience:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in production planning, preferably in a manufacturing environment
• Comprehension of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) principles / (ERP) systems
• Ability to interpret bills of material, routings, lead times, inventory balances, work orders, and capacity information.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end production and material-planning processes

Other:

• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and relationship-management skills
• High level of accuracy, attention to detail, accountability, and follow-through
• Ability to work with urgency while maintaining planning discipline and data integrity.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a changing manufacturing environment.
• Sequence manufacturing work to support customer and operational requirements.

Ability to recognize planning risks, evaluate alternatives, and recommend practical corrective actions.

Job Duties & Requirement (included but not limited to the following):

• Develop, maintain, and communicate detailed production schedules for assigned products, manufacturing lines, and work centers.
• Translate customer orders, demand forecasts, inventory requirements, and service-level priorities into executable production plans.
• Release, sequence, and manage production work orders in alignment with material availability, labor capacity, equipment capability, and required completion dates.
• Establish appropriate production priorities based on customer commitments, operational constraints, inventory requirements, and changing business needs.
• Monitor production progress and revise schedules in response to demand changes, material shortages, equipment downtime, labor constraints, quality issues, and other operational disruptions.
• Maintain planning parameters, lead times, order quantities, safety-stock settings, and related master data for assigned products, as authorized
• Establish good working relationships with key stakeholders   
• Monitor stock, non-stock, slow-moving, excess, obsolete, and aging inventory associated with assigned products.
• Other duties as assigned

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