Production Planner II

Trident Seafoods is North America’s largest vertically integrated seafood company—partnering with fishermen, employees, and communities to responsibly harvest, process, and share wild Alaska seafood with the world. With deep roots in Alaska and operating across the globe, Trident is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, committed to nourishing the world while upholding the highest standards for safety, sustainability, and excellence.

At Trident Seafoods, we work together for something bigger than ourselves. From nourishing the world with the best protein on earth to protecting our oceans, serving our fishermen, and supporting communities in Alaska and beyond, here, you’ll find a values-driven culture where your growth matters, your work has purpose and your contributions are recognized and appreciated—because at Trident, we believe meaningful work connects us all.

Summary: The Production Planner II is responsible for leading production planning activities that ensure customer demand is met while optimizing plant capacity, inventory performance, and operational efficiency across the supply chain. This role develops and manages production plans over a rolling planning horizon, balancing demand forecasts, manufacturing capabilities, material availability, and inventory targets to support business objectives.

As a more advanced planning role, the Production Planner II serves as a key coordinator between Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial teams, and manufacturing facilities by leading Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) and production planning meetings, facilitating Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) discussions, and proactively identifying risks to customer service, inventory, or capacity utilization. The role owns critical planning metrics, including schedule adherence and capacity utilization, and provides visibility into operational performance through reporting and analysis.

The Production Planner II is also responsible for driving continuous improvement by identifying and resolving MRP discrepancies, enhancing planning processes, maintaining production capacity data, and improving planning analytics and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tools. Through collaboration, analysis, and strategic planning, the role helps ensure efficient production execution, optimized inventory investment, and reliable product supply across the network.

Essential Functions: (Responsibilities, Tasks, Supervisory Needs)

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Develop production plans over a rolling 3-month horizon to deliver superior customer service while managing inventory levels.
• Review Capacity to Demand ratio over a rolling 12-month horizon to drive plant efficiency while delivering inventory goals.
• Schedule and lead weekly cross functional production planning and S&OE meetings
• Own Production planning metrics: Schedule Adherence and Capacity Utilization
• Collaborate with plants weekly to ensure we optimize schedules based on customer/SKU priorities, RM availability and safety stock goals
• Proactively review future risk (to service or utilization) and communicate with Commercial and Operational leads.
• Schedule and participate in monthly RCCP meetings – clearly communicate utilization and inventory build over the horizon.
• Propose stepwise improvements to existing processes
• Call out and propose solutions when identifying MRP discrepancies
• Modify existing analytics tools within Excel as needed
• Propose improvements to analytics tools within IBP
• Work with plants to create and maintain a master list of production line capacities
• Monitor and report out plant schedule adherence (PSA)

 The essential functions listed above are not exhaustive.  The organization may assign other duties as needed to meet business requirements.

Required Qualifications: (Education, Years of Experience, Certifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in production planning, material planning, S&OP, or a related supply chain planning function within a CPG or manufacturing environment.

 Preferred Education & Experiences:

• Master’s degree in Supply Chain or Business Management preferred, APICS or Six Sigma certification in lieu of MBA
• Experience working in Supply Planning tools (SAP/Oracle etc.) preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must enjoy and be proficient in working with numbers and mining for insights
• Excellent Excel skills required: Power-pivot skills a plus

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, including F-1 STEM-OPT authorization.

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Trident Seafoods provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Trident Seafoods and its subsidiaries have adopted a drug-free workplace policy. Working under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol is not permitted.

Employment with Trident Seafoods is contingent upon the candidate maintaining valid immigration status and work authorization throughout employment, with or without immigration sponsorship by the company.