Manufacturing Production Planner

Location: Sand Springs, Oklahoma

Type: Full-time

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Production Planner to join a growing manufacturing team. If you're analytical, highly organized, and passionate about driving production efficiency while ensuring on-time customer delivery, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the master production schedule.
• Coordinate production priorities across manufacturing departments.
• Monitor production progress and adjust schedules to address changing priorities.
• Analyze labor capacity, material availability, and machine utilization.
• Identify bottlenecks, scheduling conflicts, and delivery risks while developing recovery plans.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Purchasing, Project Management, Operations, and Sales.
• Maintain accurate scheduling data and production reports.
• Monitor KPIs including schedule adherence, on-time delivery, and capacity utilization.
• Coordinate customer shipments, freight scheduling, and shipping documentation.
• Recommend process improvements to increase operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of production planning, scheduling, manufacturing operations, or project controls experience.
• Experience with ERP systems (Epicor preferred).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, labor planning, capacity management, and production scheduling.
• Ability to analyze production data and develop capacity forecasts.
• Experience with metal fabrication or engineered-to-order manufacturing preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Effective communication and cross-functional leadership.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail with strong decision-making skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Industrial Management, or related field preferred.

Pay

$85,000–$90,000/year

Schedule

Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM

Benefits

• Competitive salary: $85,000–$90,000/year
• Opportunity to work with a collaborative, high-performing manufacturing team.
• Career growth within a stable and expanding organization.