The Production Planner is responsible for developing executable production schedules, evaluating component availability and supply constraints, determining feasible work-order release dates, and releasing and maintaining work orders to support customer delivery requirements.
Primary Focus
Detailed planning, part studies, work-order management, short-term scheduling, and day-to-day coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and short-term production schedules based on established priorities, customer requirements, materials, labor, equipment, and available resources.
- Perform part studies to determine manufacturing processes, routings, operations, and estimated labor or machine requirements.
- Create, review, and release work orders, ensuring materials, routings, operations, quantities, and required dates are accurate.
- Coordinate with Production, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Maintenance, and Materials to ensure work is properly planned and released.
- Monitor work orders and schedule progress and identify delays, material shortages, resource constraints, and scheduling conflicts.
- Adjust detailed schedules based on changing priorities, material availability, manpower, and capacity.
- Maintain accurate planning, routing, scheduling, and work-order information within ERP/MRP systems.
- Communicate daily priorities, schedule changes, and work-order requirements to affected teams.
- Provide schedule and work-order status updates and support the Senior/Lead Planner/Master Scheduler with planning information and analysis.
- Identify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, work-order flow, and schedule adherence.
Qualifications
- Associate or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in planning, scheduling, production control, manufacturing, or a related environment.
- Experience with ERP/MRP or production planning systems.
- Ability to understand manufacturing processes, routings, work orders, and production requirements.
- Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing requirements.
Key Performance Indicators
- Work-order release accuracy and timeliness
- Part-study and routing accuracy
- Schedule adherence
- On-time work-order completion
- Work-order aging
- Planning data accuracy
- Material and resource availability