Value Stream Planner

GTI is a contract manufacturing partner supporting customers in renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, and industrial systems. We fabricate custom designed, purpose-built enclosures and skids for our customers and perform mechanical and electrical integration in-house, delivering a true turn-key product to our customers. Our scope spans Engineering, prototype builds, through full production, requiring teams that can move fast, adapt, and execute with precision.

GTI Values:
Safety I Quality I Customer Obsession I Speed I Agility

The Value Stream Planner owns the production plan and the material requirements plan for one GTI value stream (customer program) end to end, as a single point of accountability. This is a planning role, not only a transaction-processing role: the Planner maintains a rolling 12-week horizon, holding the month directly ahead at execution-grade detail, and is expected to see risk before it becomes a miss.

The Planner sits embedded within the value stream squad, working side-by-side with that value stream's Production Operations Manager/Lead and partners closely with the Materials Management organization; including an evolving mandate to help build pull replenishment and line-side stores for the value stream.

• Own and publish the rolling 12-week production plan for the assigned value stream / customer program.
• Manage the plan in two bands: weeks 1–4 at execution-grade detail (daily/weekly sequencing, work-center loading), weeks 5–12 at capacity- and material-pre-positioning detail.
• Translate customer demand, program milestones, and business priorities into an executable schedule across the value stream's work centers.
• Continuously reconcile the plan against actual performance; e.g. schedule attainment, WIP, throughput (and adjust ahead of a miss, not in response to one.)
• Evaluate capacity against demand for the value stream in partnership with the Production Operations Manager/lead on staffing, overtime, and shift needs.
• Hold sequencing and release authority within the agreed freeze window and elevate exceptions.

• Own material requirements planning (MRP execution) for the value stream: taking BOM-driven demand, purchasing’s supplier lead times, on-hand and on-order position into account.
• Maintain forward material readiness across the full 12-week horizon; keep a live material tracker (green / yellow / red) for the value stream's programs.
• Proactively identify shortages and constraints before they threaten the plan, and drive resolution with Procurement and Materials Management — not just report them.
• Own the Clear-to-Build (CTB) determination and readiness gate ahead of work-order release.

• Sit side-by-side with the Production Operations Manager/ Lead for the assigned value stream as their planning counterpart in the daily and weekly operating rhythm.
• Participate directly in floor walks and huddles for the value stream to see emerging risk first-hand rather than through a report. (develop GEMBA practice with OpEX and Ops team; expected)
• Share joint accountability with the Operations Manager/Lead for the value stream's schedule attainment and on-time delivery outcomes. Key metrics accountability.
• Direct and prioritize the work of the assigned Production Control Technician such as transactional execution, material tracking, etc..

• Partner with Materials Management — Warehousing, Cycle Counting, Inventory Health, Goods Receiving, Yard Management, and Material Delivery — to align material flow with the value stream's plan.
• Co-develop and pilot pull replenishment and line-side stores (kanban, min/max, visual triggers) for the value stream in partnership with Materials Management. This is an expanding, ongoing accountability, not a one-time project.
• Provide the demand and consumption signal Materials Management needs to size and tune replenishment; validate performance and iterate as the value stream's production rate requirements change.

• Maintain planning data…