Production Planner in Grand Rapids

Job Description

Job Description
About Acron Aviation (Avionics – Aftermarket):Acron Aviation designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems that support safety-critical flight operations across commercial and military aviation. Through our Aftermarket organization, we support operators, OEMs, maintenance providers, and fleet owners by delivering product support, repair, overhaul, technical services, and lifecycle sustainment solutions across a broad portfolio of avionics products. Our Aftermarket team plays a critical role in ensuring product availability, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence throughout the service life of our systems.
Job Title
Production Planner – Aftermarket
Position Summary
We are seeking a Production Planner who thrives in complex, cross-functional environments and is highly skilled in applying production planning fundamentals, continuous improvement, and team-based problem-solving to achieve operational excellence.
The Production Planner is responsible for executing the established Master Production Schedule (MPS) while identifying and removing obstacles by applying Lean and Continuous Improvement principles. This role ensures production plans are feasible, stable, and visible across the organization by balancing material availability, labor capacity, machine constraints, quality requirements, and customer commitments.
The ideal candidate is a high-energy planning professional who reinforces a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement. This individual will leverage ERP-based planning tools, collaborate across the value stream, and drive disciplined execution while maintaining accountability for schedule performance, inventory objectives, and customer commitments.

• Develop and maintain daily and weekly work order releases and completions aligned to the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and frozen planning horizons
• Manage work order changes while maintaining schedule stability
• Ensure schedules accurately reflect material, labor, and equipment availability
• Sequence work using capacity constraints across assembly, test, paint, inspection, and other critical operations
• Collaborate with Master Schedulers and Value Stream Leaders to estimate deliveries and associated financial impacts
• Develop recovery plans for overdue work orders
• Maintain visual management systems, including KPI trees and dashboards for schedule performance, shortages, and constraints
• Maintain action logs with ownership and due dates
• Own scheduling and capacity alignment for all RMA Part 21 customer returns, ensuring customer-return demand is integrated appropriately into factory schedules and delivery commitments

• Identify and mitigate material, capacity, and configuration constraints
• Own and maintain the shortage hot list, including clear ownership, due dates, and escalation paths

• Participate in Tier 1 and Tier 2 daily Gemba meetings
• Communicate plan-versus-actual performance, risks, and recovery actions
• Escalate issues with data-driven recommendations and solutions
• Collaborate cross-functionally to mitigate risks and ensure closure of actions supporting MPS execution and inventory objectives

• Collaborate across functions to build quality into daily operations through defect disposition, root cause analysis, and corrective actions
• Integrate engineering changes, MRB dispositions, and approved alternates into production plans
• Ensure all planning activities comply with configuration control and regulatory requirements
• Protect frozen planning windows from unapproved disruptions

• Follow and improve production planning standard work
• Lead or participate in Kaizen events focused on reducing planning waste, improving lead time, increasing quality, and enhancing schedule reliability
• Improve SAP master data and planning data quality, including BOMs, routings, lead times, standard times, and yields
• Improve ERP data accuracy to support more effective planning and scheduling outcomes

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