Production Planner

Description

Position Title:

Production Planner

Position Location:

Uxbridge, MA

Position Type/

Schedule:

Onsite Monday – Friday 7:30AM – 4:30PM

Compensation: $75,000 - $90,000 (Compensation depends on skills, knowledge, education, and experience)

Position Snapshot:
The Production Planner plays a pivotal role in coordinating and optimizing production workflows to meet the combined demands of safety stock, forecasting, and customer orders. This position ensures a responsive and customer-focused approach to service inquiries while driving on-time delivery, production efficiency, and inventory accuracy.

About you:

You’re a proactive, detail-driven planner who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You take ownership of your work, react quickly to shifting priorities, and bring a strong sense of urgency to everything you do. You thrive on balancing forecasts, inventory, and customer demand to build schedules that make sense and deliver results.

• Manage and adjust production schedules across multiple product lines to meet demand, material availability and labor capacity.
• Review daily output, determine bottlenecks, and evaluate inventory levels to maintain efficient operations.
• Monitor on-time delivery performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Partner with Order Management and Manufacturing teams to align production goals and resolve scheduling conflicts.
• Notify internal teams of updated shipping schedules and any modifications to lead times.
• Participate in daily and monthly production meetings to address issues such as material shortages, equipment downtime, and resource constraints.

• Investigate missed shipments, identify root causes and work with teams to prevent future delays.
• Analyze planning parameters to balance delivery timelines, production efficiency and inventory levels.
• Lead order-related communications and activities for customer accounts.

• Oversee implementation of Engineering Change Notices.
• Recommend adjustments to product lead time based on scheduling constraints.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen internal customer relationships and improve service levels.

• Participate in cross-training to support other Supply Chain roles as needed.
• Complete reporting tasks and other duties as assigned.

• 2+ years of Supply Chain/Production planning experience in a manufacturing environment
• Extensive working knowledge MRP (Materials Requirement Planning) systems required, SAP preferred
• Working knowledge of Bill-of-Material and Production routings preferred
• Intermediate MS-Office experience required, advanced experience preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• High level of proactive and organized work habits
• Analytical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to draw conclusions from data
• Exhibit a strong spirit of collaboration across various teams and departments
• Ability to think and operate independently

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Insurance – multiple plan options
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Dental Insurance
• FSA, HSA options
• Vision Insurance
• 401k with company match, fully vested
• Paid Time Off
• 10 company paid holidays
• Company paid disability & AD&D insurance
• 100% paid parental leave after one year of service
• Supplemental insurance plans (Identity theft, cyber protection, additional life, etc.)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Many of our positions offer flexible schedules to meet your needs
• Relaxed business casual environment
• Sit/Stand desks for onsite office positions
• Frequent team building activities
• Career development opportunities

Lenze is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.