Senior Planner

Job Description: Production Planner

Function: Develop, implement, and manage production plans for assigned product lines, from build plan creation to product invoicing, ensuring alignment with monthly revenue targets.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Analyze and release production requirements to support the revenue plan, determining the optimal frequency and quantities of top-level assemblies and subassemblies for cost-effective production.
2. Develop and release a product planning schedule based on MRP (Material Requirements Planning) demands, preparing rolling three-month status sheets that identify all shop and purchase orders needed for production.
3. Lead weekly status review meetings with the purchasing team to ensure purchase order deliveries align with production demands.
4. Proactively communicate between meetings to ensure purchase orders continue to align with shop and customer order demands.
5. Adjust shop order due dates and quantities as needed to accommodate changes in production, overhaul, or spare part requirements, ensuring net supply/demand remains positive.
6. Print and ensure the latest revisions of shop order pick lists and work instructions to support production scheduling.
7. Maintain daily communication with shop supervisors and managers to prioritize work-in-progress orders and ensure on-time delivery of customer orders.
8. Ensure all shop orders are properly closed when completed, with all material and labor costs issued before closure.
9. Release First Article Inspection (FAI) shop orders when parts have not been produced in two years or when no valid FAI is on file.
10. Ensure project and common supply and demand alignment.
11. Communicate with Contracts when firm orders are entered, ensuring previous forecasts are canceled when necessary.
12. Monitor the aging of shop orders, collaborating with production supervisors if orders exceed 90 days.
13. Work with purchasing to resolve Material Review Board (MRB) issues promptly and ensure alternate supply sources are arranged when parts cannot be reworked.
14. Release cycle count sheets to the stockroom daily or weekly to support the monthly/yearly cycle count plan based on part classification (ABCD).
15. Reconcile cycle count variances daily and submit final results to the materials manager within the first week of each fiscal month.
16. Review, approve, and implement assigned Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
17. Use written and oral communication to resolve and implement changes to shop or purchase orders as required to maintain production schedules.
18. Perform other related duties as necessary.

Contacts: Work closely with all departments and levels of management within the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• 3 to 5 years of experience in production planning, covering the full cycle from design through procurement, fabrication, assembly, testing, packaging, and shipping.
• Extensive experience in total product planning, including working with BOMs (Bills of Materials) and coordinating with procurement for materials sourced from external vendors.
• Strong ability to schedule tasks and time-phase production plans.
• Proficiency in ERP systems such as IFS or equivalent.
• College degree or APICS Certification (CPIM) preferred.