Production Planning Manager​/Scheduler

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Summary/Objective 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. This role owns the master production schedule by translating 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.

Working closely with Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Project Management, and Operations, this position proactively identifies capacity constraints, bottlenecks, and schedule risks before they impact delivery performance. Through effective cross-functional coordination, continuous schedule optimization, and clear communication, this position provides leadership with accurate visibility into production capacity, priorities, and recovery plans, enabling informed decision-making and on-time customer delivery. The position also communicates with external customers and arranges freight and generates shipping documents.

Key performance indicators for this position include production schedule adherence, on-time delivery, and capacity utilization.

This position provides leadership with accurate visibility into manufacturing capacity, schedule risk, resource utilization, and recovery plans to support informed operational decision-making and customer commitments.

Essential Functions Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Develop, maintain, and manage the master production schedule to ensure customer commitments and business objectives are achieved.

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 are focused on scheduled priority work and escalate misalignment when production execution deviates from the approved schedule.

Monitor 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, and develop proactive recovery plans to minimize customer impact.

Analyze labor capacity and recommend schedule adjustments, overtime, additional shifts, outsourcing, or labor reallocation when required to meet customer commitments. Partner with Engineering to ensure timely release of drawings, bills of materials, and work instructions required to support production schedules.

Collaborate with Purchasing and Supply Chain to monitor material availability, long-lead items, and supplier performance that may affect production schedules.

Maintain visibility of jobs delayed by engineering releases, customer approvals, material shortages, supplier performance, or long-lead items, and communicate expected schedule impact.

Work closely 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.

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