As we continue to scale, we're looking for a highly organized, analytical Production Planner who thrives in fast-paced manufacturing environments and enjoys solving complex scheduling challenges.
What You'll Do:- Own the production schedule across multiple manufacturing work centers, balancing customer priorities, material availability, machine capacity, and labor resources.
- Translate customer demand, sales forecasts, engineering release schedules, and new program launches into executable production plans.
- Continuously evaluate production capacity, staffing levels, machine utilization, and bottlenecks to optimize factory throughput.
- Partner closely with Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Production, and Quality to ensure customer commitments remain achievable.
- Prioritize work orders based on customer demand, due dates, manufacturing constraints, and changing business priorities.
- Develop short-, medium-, and long-range production plans while adjusting schedules in real time as priorities shift.
- Monitor work-in-process (WIP) throughout the factory and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts that could impact delivery.
- Coordinate production sequencing across composite layup, curing, machining, additive manufacturing, inspection, finishing, and assembly operations.
- Analyze demand trends, backlog, forecasted orders, and pipeline opportunities to ensure the factory is appropriately staffed and prepared for future workload.
- Drive production planning meetings and communicate schedule updates, risks, and recovery plans to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, scheduling accuracy, inventory flow, and manufacturing efficiency.
- Utilize ERP/MRP, MES, and production planning tools to maintain accurate schedules, production status, and reporting.
- Develop production metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into schedule adherence, capacity utilization, on-time delivery, and factory performance.
What We're Looking for:- 3+ years of production planning, manufacturing planning, master scheduling, or operations planning experience.
- Experience in a high-mix manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, capacity planning, scheduling, and material planning.
- Comfortable balancing multiple competing priorities while making data-driven decisions.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
- Highly organized with exceptional communication skills across technical and operational teams.
- Experience working with ERP/MRP systems and production planning software.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
$90,000 - $145,000 a year
Final compensation is based on your experience, skills, and what you bring to the table.
- Full Benefits Package: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, company-paid life insurance
- Equity Option Grants
- 401k plan
- Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO + 9 Federal Holidays
