Senior Production Planner

Position Overview

ABB Motion Drive Products in New Berlin, WI is looking for a Senior Production Planner. You will be responsible for master scheduling and analysis of the drive products finished goods production, balancing customer demand, rough‑cut capacity plans, readiness assessments, and key resource capacity elements to generate production plans.

Production Planning Manager

• Translate projected forecasts, incoming volume, and work scopes into a production plan with a time‑phased build schedule, including mid‑ to long‑term capacity review and planning portal maintenance.
• Establish key performance indicators of schedule attainment to lead expedite requests for OEM/Key Customers in collaboration with Sales Channel Managers and Customer Service.
• Assemble master schedule report that encompasses performance against the business plan, shipment plan, inventory plan, and production plan, identify current planned level of demand, and create tactical production plans to meet identified customer demand. Work with Planning and Fulfillment and Product Management to determine published weekly production lead times.
• Manage on‑time delivery (OTD) metric for production review, root‑cause late orders, pareto and lead continuous improvement projects, ECN process – represent production planning and drive planning actions as part of the ECN process, maintain planning parameters in ERP and Advanced Planning System portal.
• Schedule supply based on the product mix and provide accurate commitment dates to the customer service team across multiple product lines. Work with local production planning manager, local Planning & Fulfillment (P&F) manager, and operations leadership to resolve issues, provide input about capacity and output into S&OP and short‑term planning processes, engage in capacity management during S&OP, master scheduling, material requirements planning, and production activity control.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years’ experience in order management, project management, or demand planning with sales and operations planning or supply chain background. MBA preferred.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (advanced Excel) and an ERP system – SAP preferred.
• Experience with process improvement/continuous improvement and documentation of work instructions/standard operating procedures.
• Good negotiation skills in a multicultural global business environment and strong understanding of supply market, logistics, B2B.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that permits employment in the United States.

• Proficiency with Tableau, Power
  
  BI, APICS (CPIM), and/or Lean Six Sigma certifications.
• Knowledge of larger project business execution and mechanical/electrical category knowledge.

• Health:
  Choice between PPO Copay Plan or High Deductible Plan with HSA.
• Dental:
  Core or Core Plus plan.
• Vision benefit.
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay) and AD&D (1X base pay).
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid.
• Short‑Term Disability – up to 26 weeks, Company paid.
• Long‑Term Disability – 60% of pay, Company paid; optional buy‑up to 66⅔% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits:
  Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance – 100% employee paid.
• Parental leave – up to 6 weeks.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Advocacy support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation, virtual health, infertility/adoption.
• Employee discount program.

• 401(k) savings plan with company contributions.
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP).

11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions receive vacation under a permissive time‑away policy.

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