Production Planner

Basic Purpose and Objective of the Position :

This position is responsible for the development, preparation and maintenance of production schedules to guide the production activities and resources that achieve maximum efficiency and meet output and timeline objectives.

Major Responsibilities reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions :

• Serve as key contributor in long-term and day-to-day production planning, providing advanced scheduling solutions and strategic insights.
• Develop and maintain detailed build schedules for multi-phase work orders spanning several weeks to months.
• Plan long-lead work orders in phases, considering engineering release timing, material arrival, and subassembly readiness.
• Work backward from firm customer due dates to establish critical-path schedules.
• Create Gantt-style planning tools or visual schedules to track layered progress across long-duration builds.
• Incorporate external processing timelines early in the schedule to avoid late-stage delays.
• Sequence jobs based on part complexity, priority programs, and specialized / preferred machine availability.
• Align material availability months in advance with scheduled build starts.
• Ensure that build starts are not triggered until material, tooling, and documents are fully aligned.
• Provide leadership with build risk dashboards for ongoing jobs with multiple-month durations.
• Push open operations or inspection steps when timeline compression is needed.
• Assist in identifying opportunities to reduce slack or idle time on long builds nearing completion.
• Regularly coordinate with engineering to understand design maturity and drawing release timing.
• Proactively foster internal cross -functional relationships in order to drive regional and global strategies for assigned products.
• Accomplish forward production analysis to ensure accurate business forecasting and product projections.
• Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience

Preferred Qualifications

Targeted Salary Range : $100,000-$120,000