Production Planner

Position TitleProduction Planner

Employment Status & Work Hours

Location: Lancaster, PA

Full-Time Non-Exempt, Monday to Friday, 7:30-4:00

Position Summary

Are you a scheduling wizard who thrives on solving puzzles, optimizing workflows, and keeping the production floor humming like a well-oiled machine? We’re looking for a Production Planner to join our team and bring order to the chaos (with a dash of fun along the way).

Compensation & Benefits

• $22 $25 per hour(depending on level of experience)
• Comprehensive benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Various voluntary insurance benefits including shortterm disability, life and ad&d, critical illness, accident.
• Paid Time Off: Accrue up to 15 days per year
• 7 paid holidays plus 1 Floating Holiday
• Opportunities for career advancement
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match.
  
  

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Be the Communication Maestro: Keep the calm and carry on by coordinating with employees, management, carriers, and vendors like a true professional.
• Build Relationships Like a Pro: Work closely with internal customers and external partners to ensure everyone’s on the same page.
• Own the Production Floor Game Plan: Develop schedules that balance workload across machines and personnel like a championship coach. Bonus points for optimizing sequencing and minimizing setup times!
• Channel Your Inner Detective: Monitor order queues, Slack channels, and reprints like a hawk to ensure nothing slips through the cracks.
• Lean, Mean, Efficiency Machine: Apply lean manufacturing principles and 5S practices to make our production flow as smooth as butter.
• Quality Guru: Collaborate with quality control teams to ensure every product meets our high standards. Quick action on deviations is your superpower.
• DataDriven Dynamo: Analyze production data to find bottlenecks and propose improvements. You love turning numbers into actionable insights.
• The Great Connector: Facilitate communication between departments like a friendly, allknowing oracle to prevent delays and resolve issues.
• Innovator Extraordinaire: Participate in process improvement initiatives and bring fresh, creative solutions to the table.
  
  

What We’re Looking For:

• A natural problemsolver who thrives in fastpaced environments.
• Someone with a sharp eye for detail and a passion for process improvement.
• A team player with excellent communication skills and a calm, professional demeanor.
• Experience with production planning, lean manufacturing, or similar is a big plus.
  
  

Ready to create the perfect production plan and have some fun while you’re at it? Apply now and join a team that values your skills and celebrates your success!.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• At least 2 years of related production planning experience required.
• At least 24 years of related experience in a manufacturing setting required.
  
  

Preferred Qualities & Characteristics

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
• Ability to function well in a highpaced and at times stressful environment.
• Ability to work both independently and as a team player.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel or related software.
  
  

Get to Know Us

Come be a part of the #1 FASTSIGNS location globally, right here in Lancaster!

Who are we? We are an employee-rewarding, growing organization that is winning nationally in the world of signs and graphics. We believe a team like we've built can sincerely improve the lives of ouremployees and our customers - that's why we've made "improve life, together" our purpose.

What do we do here? We deliver visual communication solutions - we work in an amazing industry that merges the functional with the creative. We are manufacturing pros and we are production artists. We deal with the complexity of technology and color while we obsess over the basics of good process and loving people. We have BIG plans to continue to be an eyebrow raising, inventive, growing company and we can’t do it without the best people and team.

We are looking for a passionate co-worker, great communicator and an excellent person to be a critical part of our team; someone special to take REALLY good care of our craft and customer. Here at FASTSIGNS, we have high expectations for customer obsession and company culture. We have chosen a culture of –

• Communication (the key to our success)
• Performance (help us grow as individuals and as an organization)
• Kindness (a place where everyone can thrive) as the foundation on which to build.
  
  

Creating this type of workplace takes hard work and dedication from everyone involved, but we are committed to the process.

We’ve built something special; perhaps you can be part of it.