Planning and Scheduling Manager

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do. TAS, a Houston-headquartered company within Comfort Systems USA, delivers innovative packaged modular systems engineered and manufactured in Houston, TX for data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility applications. With over 520 packages delivered to 33 countries, TAS operates five ISO 9001 certified facilities totaling 1.2 million square feet, offering a blend of small-company agility and large-company resources.

About the role

This role leads production planning and scheduling execution across multiple manufacturing sites, owning the integrity of the master schedule, driving MRP alignment, and ensuring material and capacity plans support on-time delivery. As the control tower for planning and scheduling, you will coordinate across Production, Warehouse, Project Management, Purchasing, Engineering, and Configuration Control to ensure accurate demand signals, executable schedules, and material readiness. The position is accountable for standardizing processes, improving system utilization, and shifting from reactive to proactive planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the planning and scheduling team across multiple sites, including staffing, performance management, training, and development.
• Establish standardized processes across all sites to drive consistency and scalability.
• Drive accountability for schedule adherence, MRP accuracy, and execution discipline.
• Own the Master Production Schedule (MPS) across all sites, ensuring it is capacity-aligned and executable.
• Proactively manage schedules based on labor, capacity, and material constraints.
• Align production schedules with project timelines and delivery commitments from Project Management, Engineering, and operations.
• Eliminate reactive scheduling by enforcing structured planning processes and system-driven execution.
• Coordinate with Production to ensure alignment between system schedules and shop floor execution.
• Serve as the functional owner of MRP within the ERP system, ensuring demand signals are valid and actionable.
• Drive continuous improvement of ERP/MRP processes, parameters, and data accuracy.
• Partner with Purchasing and Configuration Control to align MRP outputs with procurement execution.
• Validate system outputs against real-world constraints, including material availability, warehouse capacity, and project requirements.
• Act as the central point of coordination for schedule changes, material constraints, and execution risks.
• Ensure project priorities are accurately reflected in production schedules and material planning.
• Drive communication across departments to ensure priorities are clear, consistent, and executable.
• Ensure material availability aligns with production schedules across all sites.
• Coordinate with Warehouse to ensure inventory accuracy, material staging, and timely movement to support production.
• Partner with Project Management to identify and mitigate risks to project timelines driven by material or scheduling constraints.
• Monitor shortages and drive proactive resolutions to prevent production and project delays.
• Track and report key metrics, including schedule adherence, material readiness, and on-time delivery to project milestones.
• Identify gaps in planning, scheduling, warehouse coordination, and execution processes and implement corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce delays, and improve system utilization.
• Support execution during peak workloads or critical shortages as needed.
• Provide escalation support for site-level planning, scheduling, warehouse, and project-related issues.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in production planning and/or scheduling in an engineer-to-order environment.
• 3-5+ years of leadership experience.
• Strong MRP/ERP system experience as a key user.
• Experience managing planning and scheduling in a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of fabrication, warehouse operations, and material flow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or technical degree from an accredited university; extensive industry or military experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Advanced knowledge of ERP/MRP systems and P6.
• Strong understanding of production scheduling, capacity planning, and material planning.
• Ability to translate project demand into executable production plans.
• Strong leadership and team development capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities across multiple sites.
• High level of accountability and ownership.
• Extensive Excel capabilities, including in-depth formulas.
• Power BI utilization and coding experience to build queries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infor LN.
• Experience implementing or managing MPS-driven scheduling environments.
• Experience driving process standardization across multiple locations.

Work Environment

• Position is 75% to 90% desk-based, working with a computer.
• Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
• Performs physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions.
• Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception, and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Tobacco-free workplace policy: no smoking or use of tobacco/nicotine products on premises or during work hours.