Senior Planner
Listed on 2026-10-17
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Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing & Industrial Operations, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma, Production Manager
Senior Production Planner
What We Offer For All Of Your Hard Work
- Competitive Salary
- PTO Program
- Nine (9) Paid Holidays
- Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability Coverage At No Cost To Employee
- Tuition Assistance
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible Spending Plans
- Health Spending Plans
- Comprehensive Online Learning Center - houses thousands of training resources available to learn at your own pace
- 401(k) Retirement Savings - with a generous company 30% match (100% vested after six years)
FM Industries Values
- Customer Focus
- Partnering to deliver excellence and innovation - Safety
- Prioritizing the wellbeing of our people - Integrity
- Achieving our best through mutual respect and teamwork - Quality
- Investing in our People, Processes, and Products - Accountability
- Taking ownership of our words, actions and results
Description
- Responsibilities include production planning, material expediting, shop floor scheduling, and labor/capacity planning
- The Senior Production Planner will not only participate but take a lead role in continuous improvement activities of diverse scope and complexity to improve the efficiency of manufacturing systems and processes.
- Monitor production work order progress and identify possible problem areas in time to take corrective action.
Essential Duties
· Plan, schedule, coordinate and approve release of production orders to manufacturing based on material and capacity availability
· Provide input to management; reschedule and/or interface with customer program management, master scheduling, customers and operations to reschedule production in the event of design changes, labor and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions
· Utilize ERP software and supporting worksheets that support production planning, capacity planning, and operational management
· Develop, select and/or customize continuous improvement methods to effectively implement lean manufacturing for varied production and business processes
· Analyze customer demand information, forecasts, orders, machine, labor and material availability and develop a flexible yet efficient master schedule
· If needed expedite equipment and materials to ensure customer deliveries are in accordance with schedule
· Interface with the Engineering team to receive technical support during manufacturing and delivery of product
· Comply with applicable environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, Company policy and accepted safe work practices
Recommended Certificates, Licenses And Registrations
· APICS / Lean / Six Sigma certifications preferred.
Education And/Or Experience Required
· Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing or Operational Management
· 5-7 years of experience in manufacturing environment
· Ability to work on a variety of problems of diverse scope and complexity where analysis and evaluation of various outcomes require tradeoffs and negotiation
· Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills; a strong team player
· Excellent manufacturing ERP systems knowledge coupled with general PC skills mainly MS Office; MS Project experience a plus
· Knowledge of manufacturing (both discrete and continuous) principles and operations
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