Production Planner

What You’ll Do:

• Own the production schedule across multiple manufacturing work centers, balancing customer priorities, material availability, machine capacity, and labor resources.  

• Translate customer demand, sales forecasts, engineering release schedules, and new program launches into executable production plans.  

• Continuously evaluate production capacity, staffing levels, machine utilization, and bottlenecks to optimize factory throughput.  

• Partner closely with Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Production, and Quality to ensure customer commitments remain achievable.  

• Prioritize work orders based on customer demand, due dates, manufacturing constraints, and changing business priorities.  

• Develop short-, medium-, and long-range production plans while adjusting schedules in real time as priorities shift.  

• Monitor work-in-process (WIP) throughout the factory and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts that could impact delivery.  

• Coordinate production sequencing across composite layup, curing, machining, additive manufacturing, inspection, finishing, and assembly operations.  

• Analyze demand trends, backlog, forecasted orders, and pipeline opportunities to ensure the factory is appropriately staffed and prepared for future workload.  

• Drive production planning meetings and communicate schedule updates, risks, and recovery plans to cross-functional stakeholders.  

• Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, scheduling accuracy, inventory flow, and manufacturing efficiency.  

• Utilize ERP/MRP, MES, and production planning tools to maintain accurate schedules, production status, and reporting.  

• Develop production metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into schedule adherence, capacity utilization, on-time delivery, and factory performance. 

What We’re Looking for:

• 3+ years of production planning, manufacturing planning, master scheduling, or operations planning experience.  

• Experience in a high-mix manufacturing environment.  

• Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, capacity planning, scheduling, and material planning.  

• Comfortable balancing multiple competing priorities while making data-driven decisions.  

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.  

• Highly organized with exceptional communication skills across technical and operational teams.  

• Experience working with ERP/MRP systems and production planning software.  

• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.