Network Master Planner

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and govern the network-level Master Production Schedule across all manufacturing plants
• Translate demand, customer priorities, inventory needs, and operational constraints into a synchronized and executable MPS
• Ensure plant-level schedules align to the broader network plan, capacity outlook, and customer service commitments
• Monitor schedule changes, demand shifts, backlog, capacity gaps, and service risks across the manufacturing footprint
• Provide a clear planning view of what needs to run, where it should run, and when it must be completed to support customer commitments
• Execute planning discipline through the ASD Lean Operating System, including Tiered Management, visual controls, PDCA problem solving, and SPDCC escalation
• Serve as the point person for SIOP planning inputs related to network capacity, production requirements, backlog, inventory, and supply constraints
• Partner with Sales, Customer Service, Finance, Materials, and Operations to align demand expectations with practical manufacturing capability
• Convert SIOP outputs into actionable MPS plans, plant requirements, and escalation items
• Identify gaps between demand and capacity early enough to support corrective action, scenario planning, and leadership decision-making
• Drive planning discipline through standard cadence, data visibility, and clear follow-up on open SIOP actions
• Evaluate manufacturing capacity across all sites to determine the most efficient location to run demand
• Identify opportunities to level-load volume across the network, balance constraints, reduce bottlenecks, and improve throughput
• Recommend order placement or production shifts based on capacity, labor, materials, lead time, cost, service impact, and plant feasibility
• Monitor labor utilization and overtime exposure, helping the business meet demand with the least practical overtime required
• Support make-versus-shift, surge, recovery, and constraint scenarios that protect customer delivery while improving network efficiency
• Operate as the planning control tower for manufacturing execution by consolidating data from demand, capacity, inventory, backlog, and plant schedules
• Create visibility to critical constraints, overdue demand, capacity overloads, schedule misses, and customer risk
• Build and maintain planning dashboards, trackers, and review cadences that clearly show red/yellow/green status across sites
• Escalate risks with clear problem statements, customer impact, root cause, countermeasure, owner, and due date
• Ensure leadership has timely visibility to trade-offs, capacity decisions, and schedule risks requiring action
• Partner with site schedulers and manufacturing leaders to ensure the network MPS is translated into executable plant schedules
• Coordinate schedule changes across plants when demand shifts or constraints require rebalancing
• Drive schedule adherence reviews and support root cause analysis when plants miss planned production output
• Promote planning standard work across sites to reduce variation and improve execution reliability
• Apply Lean principles to improve production flow, reduce firefighting, stabilize schedules, and eliminate waste in the planning process
• Use visual management, standard work, daily/weekly cadence, and disciplined problem solving to support proactive execution
• Identify improvement opportunities in capacity planning, MPS governance, schedule adherence, data quality, and cross-site communication
• Support continuous improvement projects tied to overtime reduction, network utilization, lead-time improvement, inventory alignment, and service performance
• Challenges single-site thinking by identifying better network options for service, cost, capacity, and flow
• Does not override Plant Manager execution ownership without leadership approval

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, or related field preferred
• 5+ years of experience in master scheduling, production planning, supply planning, SIOP, materials planning, or manufacturing operations planning
• Experience planning across multiple manufacturing sites or complex product families preferred
• Strong understanding of Master Production Scheduling, SIOP, capacity planning, ERP/MRP, finite scheduling, labor planning, and inventory flow
• Demonstrated ability to balance demand and supply across a manufacturing network while protecting customer service and reducing operational waste
• Strong understanding of ERP/MRP and data analysis skills; advanced Excel and planning/reporting tool capability preferred
• Experience building or maintaining planning dashboards, trackers, capacity views, or executive-level planning summaries
• Leverage Lean manufacturing, visual management, standard work, or continuous improvement experience
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence plant teams, business leaders, customer service, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-visibility manufacturing environment