Senior Manager, Production Planning

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Full Time Fort Worth, TX, US

4 days ago Requisition

MP Materials (NYSE: MP) is rebuilding American industrial capability for a new era of autonomy, robotics, and electrification.

We are the only U.S. company with a fully integrated rare earth supply chain—from mining and refining to advanced metal and magnet manufacturing. Our products include both the critical materials used to make permanent magnets and the finished magnets themselves—enabling next-generation technologies in robotics, automation, aerospace, transportation, defense, and energy systems. These materials are the foundation of physical AI—the convergence of computation, movement, and control.

We hire ambitious, mission-driven people who want to tackle complex challenges and shape the future of strategic industries. Our culture is rooted in teamwork, resiliency, and integrity, with a deep commitment to operational excellence and national purpose. MP is rapidly evolving from a materials producer into a leading U.S. manufacturer—and our people are driving that transformation.

The Senior Production Planning Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end production planning function fortwo manufacturing sites. This leader translates customer demand and business priorities into executable production through optimizing asset utilization, and balancing cost, inventory, labor, and service objectives.

This role establishes planning standards, governance, and performance expectations while resolving competing priorities. The Senior Manager escalates risks and drives cross-functional decisions to support reliable execution of the production plan. Success will be measured through on-time delivery, schedule dependability, inventory performance, capacity utilization, and effective balance of supply, labor, material, and maintenance risks.

The Senior Manager leads a team of Production Planning Managers, Production Planners, and Planning Specialists across two sites.

• Represent Production Planning as a senior decision-making leader in the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process
• Translate demand forecasts into executable supply and production plans
• Provide data-driven recommendations on capacity constraints, inventory strategies, and business risks
• Present executives with clear scenarios, assumptions, financial and operational tradeoffs, recommended decisions, and associated risks
• Improve planning policies, decision rights, schedule parameters, and escalation paths across both sites

• Develop and execute integrated production plans that align customer demand, inventory targets, plant capacity, labor availability, and business objectives
• Lead short-, medium-, and long-range production planning processes to optimize throughput, asset utilization, and service performance
• Lead regular plan reviews, and confirm ownership of corrective actions
• Ensure planning data, assumptions, and master-data inputs are accurate and controlled.
• Balance production schedules across manufacturing assets while minimizing bottlenecks, downtime, and changeover impacts
• Manage production planning activities to ensure achievement of customer service, on-time delivery, and inventory goals
• Establish capacity models and scenario planning tools to support business growth, demand variability, and operational constraints

• Lead, and coach a high-performing planning organization consisting of Production Planning Managers, Production Planners, and Planning Specialists
• Establish clear performance goals…