Production Planning Manager
On-site · Waller, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Production Planning Manager will oversee and optimize production scheduling, forecasting, and manufacturing coordination to ensure customer commitments are met. Serves as the central conduit between supply chain, operations, and manufacturing, aligning demand, materials, and production capacity to meet build schedules. Responsibilities include overseeing planning and scheduling, developing production plans, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure material availability, monitoring status and adapting to delays or bottlenecks, ensuring proper flow of materials through warehouse to production, maintaining ERP/MRP accuracy, driving continuous improvement, and communicating schedule changes to leadership. Must have a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in manufacturing planning or related fields; experience with ERP/MRP systems (Oracle ERP preferred); strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills; on-site capability in a warehouse/shop-floor environment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in manufacturing planning, production control, or supply chain planning
- Experience in manufacturing or assembly environments; industrial equipment, power generation, or similar industry
- Proven ability to manage production planning processes and coordinate across cross-functional teams
- Strong experience working with ERP/MRP systems; Oracle ERP preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Valid driver’s license
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, assembly operations, and production workflows
- Ability to balance supply and demand planning, ensuring materials meet production schedules
- Knowledge of capacity planning and production scheduling principles
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
- Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across supply chain, operations, and project management
- Basic understanding of mechanical systems and manufacturing timelines to support realistic planning assumptions
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Adaptability and comfort working in a fast-growing, start-up style environment where responsibilities evolve
- Ability to work on-site in a warehouse and shop-floor production environment
- Ability to stand, walk, bend, and perform physical tasks for extended periods throughout the workday
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