What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Planning Specialist position at Schuber Mitchell Homes?
Position Summary
The Production Planning Specialist supports operations, build, and sales by preparing new communities, neighborhoods, and phases for homebuilding. This role ensures accurate land planning, LOTFITS readiness, and consistent communication across teams.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
The Production Planning Specialist supports operations, build, and sales by preparing new communities, neighborhoods, and phases for homebuilding. This role ensures accurate land planning, LOTFITS readiness, and consistent communication across teams.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Creates and maintains 2D house footprints and AutoCAD DWG files for LOTFITS to support accurate land planning and buildability.
- Establishes and maintains city, C&R, and POA restrictions for new communities/phases and ensures they are reflected accurately in LOTFITS.
- Supports Build and Production teams by assisting with lot investigations and aligning neighborhood files with field conditions.
- Serves as the primary contact for Market Communications, providing updates and responding to information requests related to neighborhoods, phases, and plan offerings.
- Responds to LOTFITS errors, adjustment requests, and inquiries from LEAD, Sales, and Systems teams, providing solutions or workarounds as needed.
- Participates in Starts Meetings and interdepartmental meetings to ensure data accuracy and system readiness prior to construction starts.
- Performs detailed fit analyses to determine plan‑lot compatibility and support land‑purchase due diligence. Prepares and distributes reports and analysis summaries to internal stakeholders.
- Oversees Construction Documents–to–LOTFITS synchronization and ensures plan updates are accurately reflected within the system.
- Performs full Phase Setup, including data/document gathering, file creation, LOTFITS updates, HB1 setup, and Market Use file creation/management.
- Maintains neighborhood records throughout their lifecycle, including updates, changes, and availability reporting for internal teams.
- Generates Market Use files to streamline Production workflows.
- Minimum 1 year of AutoCAD experience preferred; Revit experience preferred.
- Proficient with Windows OS and Microsoft Office.
- Ability to learn and apply new software tools.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- High attention to detail with strong analytical abilities.
- Effective organizational and time‑management skills.
- Works in a temperature-controlled office environment, with low noise levels
- Prolonged periods of sitting required
- Rarely required to walk, stand, lift, climb, pull, or push objects weighing up to 10 pounds