What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planning Manager position at Barnes Group?
Barnes Aerospace has a challenging and rewarding career opportunity for a Planning Manager at the East Granby – Bradley Park Site, responsible for developing and managing the Master Production Schedule (MPS) to ensure customer demand is met while optimizing inventory, capacity, and on-time delivery. This role translates sales forecasts, backlog, and inventory targets into a feasible production plan that balances demand with supply constraints across manufacturing operations.
The Planning Manager serves as the central integrator between Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance, ensuring production plans align with business objectives, capacity limits, and material availability.
Core Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the Master Production Schedule (MPS) for all product families.
- Lead and manage the site Planning team, providing direction, coaching, and performance management while ensuring alignment with business objectives and operational priorities.
- Convert customer demand, forecasts, and backlog into executable production plans.
- Ensure schedules are capacity-feasible and aligned with labor, machine, and material constraints.
- Maintain rolling planning horizons (typically 12–26 weeks).
- Balance forecast demand, customer orders, and inventory targets.
- Coordinate with sales and demand planning to understand changes in demand.
- Adjust schedules to respond to demand variability, expedites, or shortages.
- Evaluate rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) to ensure production plans are achievable.
- Identify capacity constraints and propose solutions (overtime, outsourcing, schedule shifts).
- Work with operations leadership to level load production.
- Partner with procurement to ensure material availability supports the production schedule.
- Monitor shortages and adjust production plans accordingly.
- Drive improvements in planning processes using Lean and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) principles.
- Improve schedule stability and reduce schedule volatility.
- Lead initiatives to improve forecast accuracy and inventory optimization.
Qualifications:
- 7 years of production planning or scheduling experience in manufacturing.
- Experience managing complex multi-product production schedules.
- Aerospace, industrial, or regulated manufacturing experience preferred.
- Advanced ERP/MRP planning experience (examples):
- Strong Excel and data analysis capability
- APICS certification (CPIM and/or CSCP) is preferred.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or related field
Instructions:
To be considered for the above position, please visit our website www.barnesaero.com, click on careers, search for the job posting in which you are interested and submit your resume online.