Senior Production Planner

About Us

Geremarie is a modern, technology-driven manufacturer where advanced automation and skilled craftsmanship work side by side. From our vertically integrated facility in Lake Zurich, IL, we engineer and machine complex aluminum components for leading marine and recreation brands, maintaining tight tolerances, fast turnaround, and consistent quality at scale.

As a division of Patrick Industries, we’re connected to a wider manufacturing community that values quality, innovation, and forward-thinking operations. That connection strengthens our commitment to improving our technology, refining our processes, and supporting the people who drive our work every day.

If you’re someone who shows up, takes ownership, and isn’t afraid to roll up your sleeves, this is the place you’ll grow.

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and forward-looking production schedules across multiple departments and work centers.
• Translate customer demand and business priorities into realistic, executable production schedules.
• Sequence production, prototypes, first articles, inspection, rework, tooling/fixture work, and other manufacturing requirements.
• Evaluate capacity, machine availability, labor, materials, tooling, routings, cycle/setup times, quality requirements, and dependencies before releasing work.
• Identify bottlenecks, shortages, capacity constraints, and delivery risks and coordinate recovery plans with the appropriate teams.
• Adjust schedules when priorities change due to downtime, shortages, quality holds, engineering changes, or customer requirements.
• Establish clear production expectations including work order, quantity, due date, priority, responsible area, and known constraints.
• Lead regular schedule reviews comparing planned work to actual completion and identify the cause of significant variances.
• Partner closely with Production leadership and team leads to improve schedule execution and adherence.
• Work with Engineering and Operations to validate actual cycle times, setup times, routings, machine requirements, and production standards.
• Analyze capacity and demand to identify developing constraints before they impact customer commitments.
• Support inventory planning, reorder-point analysis, safety-stock decisions, and made-to-order versus made-to-stock strategies.
• Maintain accurate scheduling, routing, WIP, capacity, and work-order information within Global Shop ERP.
• Develop and improve scheduling reports, dashboards, exception reporting, and planning tools.
• Establish standard processes for scheduling, priority changes, work-order release, schedule recovery, and escalation.
• Help move the organization from reactive scheduling and expediting toward a disciplined, data-driven production planning system.
  
  

What We're Looking For

We are specifically looking for someone who has already done this successfully in a manufacturing environment and can bring that knowledge and experience to our operation.

• 5 years of progressive production planning and scheduling experience in manufacturing; extensive experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced understanding of production scheduling, capacity planning, material planning, routings, work orders, lead times, cycle/setup times, WIP, and inventory.
• Demonstrated experience scheduling across multiple machines, work centers, departments, or manufacturing processes.
• Strong ERP/MRP experience; Global Shop Solutions experience is a plus.
• Experience identifying and resolving scheduling constraints involving materials, labor, equipment, tooling, quality, and engineering.
• Ability to determine whether a production schedule is realistically executable not simply whether an order has a due date.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between customer demand, takt/capacity, inventory, production lead time, and delivery performance.
• Experience improving planning or scheduling processes, data, systems, or reporting.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with imperfect data, identify gaps, and improve data accuracy.
• Advanced Excel and production-reporting skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to coordinate priorities across departments.
• Comfortable challenging inaccurate assumptions or data and escalating risks when necessary.
• Able to work independently and bring structure to a developing planning environment.
  
  

Benefits

• Multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options with employer contributions
• Voluntary benefits: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident coverage, legal insurance, identity theft protection
• Company-paid and voluntary life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Fitness reimbursements and wellness programs
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Pet insurance options
  
  

Pay Range

A reasonable estimate of the hourly pay range for this role is $90,000 – $115,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Should you require additional assistance, please call: 847-540-1154