Senior Production Planner

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
  
  

Qualifications

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

• No
  
  

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