The Production Planner is responsible for developing executable production schedules, evaluating component availability and supply constraints, determining feasible work-order release dates, and releasing and maintaining work orders to support customer delivery requirements. Primary Focus Detailed planning, part studies, work-order management, short-term scheduling, and day-to-day coordination. Key Responsibilities • Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and short-term production schedules based on established priorities, customer requirements, materials, labor, equipment, and available resources. • Perform part studies to determine manufacturing processes, routings, operations, and estimated labor or machine requirements. • Create, review, and release work orders, ensuring materials, routings, operations, quantities, and required dates are accurate. • Coordinate with Production, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Maintenance, and Materials to ensure work is properly planned and released. • Monitor work orders and schedule progress and identify delays, material shortages, resource constraints, and scheduling conflicts. • Adjust detailed schedules based on changing priorities, material availability, manpower, and capacity. • Maintain accurate planning, routing, scheduling, and work-order information within ERP/MRP systems. • Communicate daily priorities, schedule changes, and work-order requirements to affected teams. • Provide schedule and work-order status updates and support the Senior/Lead Planner/Master Scheduler with planning information and analysis. • Identify opportunities to improve planning accuracy, work-order flow, and schedule adherence. Qualifications • Associate or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field preferred. • Experience in planning, scheduling, production control, manufacturing, or a related environment. • Experience with ERP/MRP or production planning systems. • Ability to understand manufacturing processes, routings, work orders, and production requirements. • Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. • Ability to manage multiple priorities and changing requirements. Key Performance Indicators • Work-order release accuracy and timeliness • Part-study and routing accuracy • Schedule adherence • On-time work-order completion • Work-order aging • Planning data accuracy • Material and resource availability