Senior Production Planner

Geremarie is a modern, technology-driven manufacturer where advanced automation and skilled craftsmanship work side by side. From our vertically integrated facility in Lake Zurich, IL, we engineer and machine complex aluminum components for leading marine and recreation brands, maintaining tight tolerances, fast turnaround, and consistent quality at scale.

As a division of Patrick Industries, we’re connected to a wider manufacturing community that values quality, innovation, and forward-thinking operations. That connection strengthens our commitment to improving our technology, refining our processes, and supporting the people who drive our work every day.

If you’re someone who shows up, takes ownership, and isn’t afraid to roll up your sleeves, this is the place you’ll grow.

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and forward-looking production schedules across multiple departments and work centers.
• Translate customer demand and business priorities into realistic, executable production schedules.
• Sequence production, prototypes, first articles, inspection, rework, tooling/fixture work, and other manufacturing requirements.
• Evaluate capacity, machine availability, labor, materials, tooling, routings, cycle/setup times, quality requirements, and dependencies before releasing work.
• Identify bottlenecks, shortages, capacity constraints, and delivery risks and coordinate recovery plans with the appropriate teams.
• Adjust schedules when priorities change due to downtime, shortages, quality holds, engineering changes, or customer requirements.
• Establish clear production expectations including work order, quantity, due date, priority, responsible area, and known constraints.
• Lead regular schedule reviews comparing planned work to actual completion and identify the cause of significant variances.
• Partner closely with Production leadership and team leads to improve schedule execution and adherence.
• Work with Engineering and Operations to validate actual cycle times, setup times, routings, machine requirements, and production standards.
• Analyze capacity and demand to identify developing constraints before they impact customer commitments.
• Support inventory planning, reorder-point analysis, safety-stock decisions, and made-to-order versus made-to-stock strategies.
• Maintain accurate scheduling, routing, WIP, capacity, and work-order information within Global Shop ERP.
• Develop and improve scheduling reports, dashboards, exception reporting, and planning tools.
• Establish standard processes for scheduling, priority changes, work-order release, schedule recovery, and escalation.
• Help move the organization from reactive scheduling and expediting toward a disciplined, data-driven production planning system.

We are specifically looking for someone who has already done this successfully in a manufacturing environment and can bring that knowledge and experience to our operation.

• 5+ years of progressive production planning and scheduling experience in manufacturing; extensive experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced understanding of production scheduling, capacity planning, material planning, routings, work orders, lead times, cycle/setup times, WIP, and inventory.
• Demonstrated experience scheduling across multiple machines, work centers, departments, or manufacturing processes.
• Strong ERP/MRP experience;
  Global Shop Solutions experience is a plus.
• Experience identifying and resolving scheduling constraints involving materials, labor, equipment, tooling, quality, and engineering.
• Ability to determine whether a production schedule is realistically executable not simply whether an order has a due date.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between customer demand, takt/capacity, inventory,…