Production Planning Manager​/Scheduler

Overview

Join a team of industry professionals who value your skills and talents. At OGI Process Equipment, the Production Planning & Project Controls Manager is responsible for developing, owning, and maintaining the master production schedule to ensure customer commitments are met while maximizing operational efficiency. The role translates customer demand, engineering releases, material availability, labor capacity, and manufacturing constraints into a realistic and executable production plan while continuously balancing capacity, priorities, and customer commitments.

• Develop, maintain, and manage the master production schedule to achieve customer commitments and business objectives.
• Translate customer orders, project priorities, engineering releases, material availability, labor capacity, and production constraints into an achievable manufacturing schedule.
• Coordinate production priorities across all manufacturing departments to maximize throughput and on‑time delivery.
• Monitor shop activity to ensure labor resources focus on scheduled priority work and elevate misalignment when execution deviates from the approved schedule.
• Track production progress daily and adjust schedules as necessary to address changing priorities, material shortages, equipment issues, and labor constraints.
• Analyze production capacity, labor availability, machine utilization, and material readiness to balance workloads and optimize manufacturing resources.
• Compare quoted hours, remaining hours, actual hours, and available labor capacity to validate schedule feasibility and identify emerging delivery risks.
• Identify production bottlenecks, schedule conflicts, and capacity constraints; develop proactive recovery plans to minimize customer impact.
• Recommend schedule adjustments, overtime, additional shifts, outsourcing, or labor reallocation as required to meet commitments.
• Collaborate with Engineering to ensure timely release of drawings, bills of materials, and work instructions.
• Work with Purchasing and Supply Chain to monitor material availability, long‑lead items, and supplier performance that may affect schedules.
• Maintain visibility of jobs delayed by engineering releases, customer approvals, material shortages, supplier performance, or long‑lead items, and communicate expected schedule impact.
• Coordinate with Project Management and Customer Service to communicate schedule changes, delivery risks, and recovery plans.
• Lead or participate in production scheduling meetings, providing updates on schedule performance, constraints, priorities, and delivery risks.
• Keep production schedules accurate and current; monitor key performance indicators including schedule adherence, on‑time delivery, work center loading, capacity utilization, and schedule stability.
• Recommend improvements to scheduling processes, production flow, inventory management, and resource utilization to increase operational efficiency.
• Provide Sales and Executive Leadership with realistic production lead times, capacity forecasts, and delivery commitments.
• Develop short‑, medium‑, and long‑range production plans based on customer demand, forecasted workload, and available resources.
• Prepare reports and presentations for leadership that provide visibility into production capacity, workload, bottlenecks, delivery risks, and recovery strategies.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, quality standards, and safety requirements while developing schedules.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing lead times, improving schedule accuracy, and increasing manufacturing efficiency.
• Coordinate with customers prior to shipping to schedule freight and generate necessary shipping documents.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support manufacturing operations and organizational objectives.

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and planning abilities.
• Effective communication and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands in a fast‑paced environment.
• High attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Sound decision‑making using operational data.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for…