Planner​/Scheduler - Rochester, NY

The Production Planner/Scheduler translates customer demand into achievable production plans by coordinating materials, labor, engineering readiness, and capacity across multiple teams. This highly visible role directly impacts production efficiency, on-time delivery, and the site’s ability to anticipate and resolve constraints.

• Develop and maintain production schedules based on customer priorities, backlog, material availability, labor capacity, and operational constraints.
• Review open orders and production priorities daily, adjusting schedules as customer needs and operating conditions change.
• Create, release, and maintain work orders in SAP and DBA, ensuring engineering documentation and materials are ready before production begins.
• Partner with Material Handling, Purchasing, and Production to address shortages, expedite materials, adjust schedules, and keep work moving through assembly, wiring, and testing.
• Monitor long-lead and customer-consigned materials, identify potential delays, and communicate risks before they affect production or customer commitments.
• Balance workloads across production areas to improve workflow and minimize bottlenecks.
• Provide Sales and Customer Service with realistic completion dates and timely updates when delivery commitments are at risk.
• Prepare schedule updates, priorities, constraints, and recovery plans for production meetings.
• Analyze on-time-delivery misses, coordinate root-cause analysis and corrective actions, and improve planning processes and system-data accuracy.
• Develop short- and long-term capacity plans, identify constraints, and recommend actions to meet customer demand.

• Production priorities are clear, achievable, and aligned across Sales, Engineering, Materials, and Operations.
• Material and capacity risks are identified early, reducing shortages, schedule changes, and production disruptions.
• Schedule accuracy and on-time delivery improve through better planning, communication, and follow-through.

• Associates degree or equivalent experience is required. A bachelor’s degree in Supply chain or Operations is strongly preferred
• 3+ years of planning experience
• CPIM certification through APICS a plus
• SAP experience strongly preferred
• Proficient in Excel