Purpose: The Senior Production Planner is responsible for MRP/MPS planning across all manufacturing sites and day-to-day / week-to-week production scheduling for the corporate manufacturing facility. This role is the primary link between customer demand, production execution, material readiness, purchasing priorities, and on-time delivery performance.
The first-year expectation is hands-on scheduling execution, shortage management, expedite coordination, and recovery planning. Over time, as operations develops stronger zone-level scheduling support, the role should shift more focus toward material readiness, capacity planning, process discipline, and proactive shortage prevention.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Production Planning & Scheduling
- Own the production schedule for the corporate manufacturing site, including daily priorities, weekly plan alignment, WIP flow, expedites, and recovery actions.
- Develop and maintain schedules that support customer demand, available capacity, material readiness, and on-time delivery goals.
- Coordinate schedule changes caused by customer demand shifts, material constraints, labor constraints, quality issues, and production interruptions.
- Work directly with operations leadership to validate priorities and ensure the schedule is executable on the floor.
MRP/MPS & Multi-Site Planning
- Own MRP/MPS planning activities across all manufacturing locations.
- Review MRP recommendations, planned orders, exceptions, demand changes, and supply signals to identify risk before production or customer delivery is impacted.
- Maintain planning discipline around lead times, planning parameters, inventory signals, and schedule alignment.
- Coordinate with site-level planners or operations owners at non-corporate sites while maintaining centralized visibility to material and demand risk.
Material Readiness & Purchasing Coordination
- Lead the connection between the production schedule and purchasing priorities.
- Identify material shortages and at-risk POs that could impact next-week and future production schedules.
- Drive weekly shortage reviews with Purchasing and Operations, including clear owners, due dates, supplier commitments, and escalation needs.
- Translate MRP and schedule requirements into actionable purchasing priorities without becoming the buyer of record.
- Support supplier escalation efforts when delivery performance threatens production or customer commitments.
OTD, Expedites & Recovery Planning
- Support on-time delivery performance through proactive planning, recovery actions, and cross-functional issue resolution.
- Manage expedite priorities and recovery plans for critical customer orders.
- Monitor past-due orders, WIP constraints, shortage risks, and schedule misses.
- Provide clear communication to Supply Chain, Customer Service, Purchasing, and Operations on risks and recovery timing.
- All other duties as assigned
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain Management preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in production planning, master scheduling, materials planning, supply planning, or manufacturing scheduling.
- Strong ERP/MRP system experience, including MRP recommendations, demand/supply review, planned orders, and planning parameters.
- Hands-on manufacturing scheduling experience in a complex routing, multi-step work order, or high-mix production environment.
- Ability to connect customer demand, capacity, material availability, purchasing actions, and production execution.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to drive accountability across Purchasing, Operations, Customer Service, and site leadership.
- Comfortable working in the details while also improving process discipline over time.
- Experience in custom manufacturing, converting, fabrication, packaging, medical manufacturing, or similar multi-step manufacturing environments is preferred.
- Experience supporting OTD, RCCP, SIOP, capacity planning, inventory planning, or supplier shortage management is preferred.
- APICS / ASCM certification or equivalent planning experience preferred, not required.
Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Microsoft Office Experience required.
- High proficiency in MS Excel a plus
- Detail oriented and good communications skills required.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Physical Demands:
- Light to moderate physical effort required on a constant basis
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Safety-toed shoes required on plant floor
- Additional protective equipment is available for nuisance dust
Work Schedule:
- Normal Schedule – 8AM – 5PM; Monday-Friday; May vary with business need
Work Environment:
- Work performed in a plant/production environment
- Contains any number of elements including but not limited to fiberglass/insulation material, dust, fumes, and noise.
- Must be able to work as part of a team or independently with limited supervision
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Please list your salary expectations
Education:
Experience:
- Production planning: 5 years (Preferred)
- ERP systems: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
