Production Planner

Overview

Your Career In The Stratusphere

There’s never been a better time to join Stratus!

As the market leader in brand implementation and maintenance, we help the world’s most recognized brands show up consistently—everywhere they operate. From exterior signage and interior branding to site refreshes, digital signage, and ongoing repair and maintenance, we bring brands to life where it matters most. Our work extends far beyond installation—we become a long-term partner in helping brands succeed.

At Stratus, every employee plays a direct role in that impact. We operate with a strong commitment to customer service, a focus on execution, and a bias for action. If you're looking for a place where your contributions are visible, your growth is supported, and your work makes a real difference, you’ll find it here.

The Opportunity

The Production Planner plays a critical role in supporting production planning, part creation, job activation, and schedule coordination for our Elmhurst manufacturing operation.

Working within the IFS ERP system, this position is responsible for ensuring new parts and production jobs are accurately established, properly documented, and ready for timely release to the manufacturing floor. The Production Planner partners closely with Project Management, Purchasing, Engineering, Manufacturing, and other operational teams to keep work moving, resolve planning issues, and support customer delivery commitments.

As Stratus continues to strengthen and standardize its production planning processes within IFS, this role will provide essential capacity and expertise to improve planning responsiveness, maintain accurate ERP data, and support a scalable manufacturing operation.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Create and maintain part numbers, bills of materials, routings, and related master data within IFS.
• Review and process new-part requests from Project Managers, Estimators, Engineering, Operations, and other business partners.
• Activate production jobs and ensure all required information is complete and accurate prior to release.
• Coordinate with Project Managers regarding material requirements, lead times, production timing, and potential schedule impacts.
• Support daily production planning and scheduling activities to help meet customer commitments and on-time delivery expectations.
• Monitor planning and part-creation queues, prioritizing work based on production requirements, customer deadlines, and business needs.
• Identify and resolve planning, scheduling, part setup, and ERP data issues that could disrupt production flow.
• Partner with Purchasing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Project Management, and Customer Operations to support successful project execution.
• Maintain accurate and consistent ERP master data in accordance with established processes and standards.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on production planning, part creation, job activation, workflow efficiency, and IFS optimization.
• Assist with balancing planning workloads during demand fluctuations, large program launches, and periods of increased production activity.
• Generate reports and provide visibility into planning activity, part creation backlog, job readiness, and other key performance measures.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve planning processes as the organization continues to mature its use of IFS.

What You Bring to the Team

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in production planning, production scheduling, manufacturing, supply chain, or a related operational role.
• Experience working within an ERP system required.
• Experience with IFS, SAP, Oracle, Epicor, or another manufacturing ERP platform preferred.
• Experience with in custom manufacturing, fabrication, signage, branded environments, or a project-based manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple requests and competing deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent attention to detail with a focus on data…