Planning Manager

Posted Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM

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Establishes, manages, reviews and maintains the master production schedule to ensure timely manufacture of finished goods in the right priorities to achieve acceptable customer service, planned inventory turn goals and effective utilization of available capacity internally and outsourced. This position will supervise the planning and order management personnel. Will ensure all operations are in accordance with established specifications, schedules and budgets to achieve maximum standards of quality and customer service, in alignment with set objectives.

Answer related inquiries for all levels of the organization. This position has a close working relationship with the plant operations management, manufacturing floor leads, sales, product engineering and accounting groups. Individual must be able to analyze data from many sources and make timely, intelligent decisions based on this information to ensure a balance of plant level loading, meeting customer requests for product, and maximizing inventory turns.

• Apply Lean Manufacturing principles in the operations planning process.
• Creates master schedule from customer sales orders and/or forecast to ensure timely manufacture and on-time shipment of product.
• Maintains master schedule to ensure adequate internal plant capacity and personnel resources available to support production requirements and customer delivery dates by daily review of critical work center loads.
• Pro-actively identifies capacity constraints, which will have an adverse impact on customer service and/or manufacturing efficiencies. Makes recommendations on where and when increased capacity may be required to support customer demand.
• Pro-actively communicates changes in the master schedule to all appropriate personnel to ensure materials and manufacturing resources are available to support those changes.
• Pro-actively notifies appropriate personnel and departments of known or potential material shortages.
• Pro-actively notifies appropriate personnel and departments of known or potential inability to meet customer delivery requirements.
• Coordinates and prioritizes production schedules to achieve an acceptable level of customer service.
• Leads daily production meeting and coordinates follow-up actions to support production.
• Works closely with Maysteel IT group to develop reports and other tools to provide proper information to make effective decisions.
• Works with buyers to develop consignment, JIT, SMI, Kan Ban and other stocking and replenishment programs.
• Manages and implements internal Kan Ban levels and programs including regular review of parts to either pull from or add to Kan Ban program depending on usage levels and customer commitment.
• Works closely with appropriate personnel and departments to develop and implement shop floor control procedures to ensure accurate inventories maintained.
• Coordinates transition of production and materials between facilities.
• Works with Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales to ensure effective transition of EC changes.
• Coaches and trains direct reports as needed
• Works proficiently in MRPII.
• Works with Supply Chain group to develop relationships with suppliers for purchased components.
• Facilitate SOP and Scorecard meetings.

Requires a Bachelors Degree in business, operations management or similar field with 5-7 years of directly related experience; or an Associate Degree with more than 10 years of progressively responsible, directly related experience; or a combination of education and experience equivalent to these. Accuracy is essential to this position. MBA and/or CPIM certification a plus.

Must possess demonstrated knowledge of Lean Principles in Manufacturing and willing the champion lean initiatives throughout the plant in the area of operations planning.

Must possess the ability to read, analyze and interpret business and technical documents, flow charts, budget information, procedure manuals and so on; the ability to prepare required routine reports and correspondence; ability…