Product Planner (6 month contract)
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: Graco manufactures and markets premium equipment... This role is a temporary position, estimated for a 6 month contract Within a manufacturing environment, forecast, plan and schedule assigned products to meet customers’ needs in the most timely and efficient manner. Meet customer service level objectives and planned inventory objectives with some assistance from other Planners or managers. Communicate with a variety of cross functional teams in factory and corporate positions. Gain experience and ownership of role through inventory management, demand planning, purchasing, and schedule execution on the shop floor.
- What You Will Do at Graco Planning: list of duties (multiple sentences). Let's extract bullet points.
List:
- Plan and execute the flow of externally procured materials from the supplier into the factory for assigned products ensuring inventory optimization and flow of material.
- Plan all purchased and manufactured parts utilizing the best ordering approach. EOQ, min/max, fixed days, Kanban, MRP, etc.
- Ensure accurate planning parameters are set in planning systems - GAINS, Oracle.
- Schedule manufacturing orders and ensure customer requirements are met.
- Give work direction and prioritize schedules on the shop floor.
- Communicate with customer service to align priorities to meet customer requirements.
- Keep management proactively informed of manufacturing challenges and issues (capacity, machine downtime, and fluctuations in resources).
- Manage all inventory to ensure cell objectives are met and in line with company objectives.
- Manage assigned product to meet customer service and inventory plans.
- Proactively communicate supply shortages, delivery changes, or quality issues to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
- Forecasting: Ensure GAINS system is maintained and that all exceptions are analyzed. Use GAINS to create, adjust, and maintain product and component forecast to drive the Oracle planning system while analyzing supply and demand.
- Communicate with marketing to refine and improve data to accurately forecast product.
- Reporting: Report on areas such as inventory and service levels.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- What You Will Bring to Graco: qualifications.
List:
- Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field is preferred or 4+ years of proven planning experience working in manufacturing and/or distribution environment.
- Registered and working towards APICS CPIM certification if Bachelor’s degree is not in Logistics and Supply Chain Planning field.
- Knowledge of Supply Chain and lean manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedures.
- No Degree Plan in place to enroll in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field and willing to complete Bachelor’s degree.
- Accelerators: MRP/ERP system knowledge.
- Competent PC skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Oracle Experience.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and unrestricted basis.
- This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship now or in the future (e.g., H-1B, TN, E-3, O-1, L-1, or employment-based permanent residence sponsorship).
- Candidates working under temporary employment authorization, including F-1 OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, or similar programs, are not eligible for this position.
- Additional content: At Graco, you truly make a difference... (culture, career path). This is more like benefits/culture but not explicit benefits. Then: Graco offers attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities. Graco’s comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more. Our company uses E-Verify... (legal). Then: The base pay range for this position is listed below, exclusive of fringe benefits or other compensation... $45,600.00 - $79,900.00.
We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe intro), Responsibilities (What You Will Do), Requirements/Qualifications (What You Will Bring), Benefits (benefits listed), Pay (pay range). Schedule? Not mentioned (no schedule details). So we omit Schedule.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. No job title given explicitly; we can ignore.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all points.
We need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose, use
.
Thus we can have sections:
About the role
with paragraph(s) describing temporary 6 month contract, manufacturing environment, forecasting, planning, scheduling, etc. Might combine some of the intro and first paragraph.
But we need to avoid duplication. The intro includes: "This role is a temporary position, estimated for a 6 month contract Within a manufacturing environment, forecast, plan and schedule assigned products to meet customers’ needs in the most timely and efficient manner. Meet customer service level objectives and planned inventory objectives with some assistance from other Planners or managers. Communicate with a variety of cross functional teams in factory and corporate positions. Gain experience and ownership of role through inventory management, demand planning, purchasing, and schedule execution on the shop floor."
We can put that as prose in About the role.
Then Responsibilities: list of duties from "What You Will Do at Graco Planning" etc. Use - .
Then Requirements/Qualifications: list from "What You Will Bring to Graco". Use
- .
Then Benefits: list from "Graco’s comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more." Also maybe mention "attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities." But we need to keep substantive. We'll list benefits as bullet points.
Then Pay: paragraph with pay range.
We must not include legal boilerplate like E-Verify, immigration sponsorship, etc. Those are considered legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should remove the immigration sponsorship lines, E-Verify, etc. Also remove "Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and unrestricted basis." That's also legal? Might be considered a requirement but it's about work authorization; could be considered legal. However it's a substantive requirement about eligibility. The instruction says remove legal boilerplate. But is that considered boilerplate? It's a standard requirement. Might be considered legal. Safer to remove it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove legal boilerplate. That includes work authorization statements. So we will omit those lines.
Also remove "At Graco, you truly make a difference..." maybe that's culture but not boilerplate; it's substantive about company culture. Keep? It's not a list; it's prose. Could be kept under About the role or a separate section like "Company culture". But we only have allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could put culture under About the role as prose.
We also need to remove duplicated lines. Not seeing duplicates.
We must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Benefits are stated (medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement). Pay is stated. Schedule not stated, so omit.
We need to ensure we don't create a section with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We'll need to wrap sections in appropriate tags.
Example:
About the role
This role is a temporary position, estimated for a 6‑month contract. Within a manufacturing environment you will forecast, plan and schedule assigned products to meet customers’ needs in the most timely and efficient manner, meet customer service level objectives and planned inventory objectives with assistance from other planners or managers, communicate with cross‑functional teams in factory and corporate positions, and gain experience and ownership through inventory management, demand planning, purchasing, and schedule execution on the shop floor.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute the flow of externally procured materials from the supplier into the factory for assigned products ensuring inventory optimization and flow of material.
- Plan all purchased and manufactured parts utilizing the best ordering approach (EOQ, min/max, fixed days, Kanban, MRP, etc.).
- Ensure accurate planning parameters are set in planning systems – GAINS, Oracle.
- Schedule manufacturing orders and ensure customer requirements are met.
- Give work direction and prioritize schedules on the shop floor.
- Communicate with customer service to align priorities to meet customer requirements.
- Keep management proactively informed of manufacturing challenges and issues (capacity, machine downtime, and fluctuations in resources).
- Manage all inventory to ensure cell objectives are met and in line with company objectives.
- Manage assigned product to meet customer service and inventory plans.
- Proactively communicate supply shortages, delivery changes, or quality issues to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
- Ensure GAINS system is maintained and that all exceptions are analyzed; use GAINS to create, adjust, and maintain product and component forecast to drive the Oracle planning system while analyzing supply and demand.
- Communicate with marketing to refine and improve data to accurately forecast product.
- Report on areas such as inventory and service levels.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field is preferred or 4+ years of proven planning experience working in a manufacturing and/or distribution environment.
- Registered and working towards APICS CPIM certification if Bachelor’s degree is not in Logistics and Supply Chain Planning field.
- Knowledge of Supply Chain and lean manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedures.
- No degree plan in place to enroll in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field and willing to complete Bachelor’s degree.
- MRP/ERP system knowledge.
- Competent PC skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Oracle experience.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Stock purchase plan
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement
Pay
The base pay range for this position is $
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro: Graco manufactures and markets premium equipment... This role is a temporary position, estimated for a 6 month contract Within a manufacturing environment, forecast, plan and schedule assigned products to meet customers’ needs in the most timely and efficient manner. Meet customer service level objectives and planned inventory objectives with some assistance from other Planners or managers. Communicate with a variety of cross functional teams in factory and corporate positions. Gain experience and ownership of role through inventory management, demand planning, purchasing, and schedule execution on the shop floor. - What You Will Do at Graco Planning: list of duties (multiple sentences). Let's extract bullet points. List: - Plan and execute the flow of externally procured materials from the supplier into the factory for assigned products ensuring inventory optimization and flow of material. - Plan all purchased and manufactured parts utilizing the best ordering approach. EOQ, min/max, fixed days, Kanban, MRP, etc. - Ensure accurate planning parameters are set in planning systems - GAINS, Oracle. - Schedule manufacturing orders and ensure customer requirements are met. - Give work direction and prioritize schedules on the shop floor. - Communicate with customer service to align priorities to meet customer requirements. - Keep management proactively informed of manufacturing challenges and issues (capacity, machine downtime, and fluctuations in resources). - Manage all inventory to ensure cell objectives are met and in line with company objectives. - Manage assigned product to meet customer service and inventory plans. - Proactively communicate supply shortages, delivery changes, or quality issues to appropriate personnel in a timely manner. - Forecasting: Ensure GAINS system is maintained and that all exceptions are analyzed. Use GAINS to create, adjust, and maintain product and component forecast to drive the Oracle planning system while analyzing supply and demand. - Communicate with marketing to refine and improve data to accurately forecast product. - Reporting: Report on areas such as inventory and service levels. - Perform other duties as assigned. - What You Will Bring to Graco: qualifications. List: - Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field is preferred or 4+ years of proven planning experience working in manufacturing and/or distribution environment. - Registered and working towards APICS CPIM certification if Bachelor’s degree is not in Logistics and Supply Chain Planning field. - Knowledge of Supply Chain and lean manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedures. - No Degree Plan in place to enroll in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field and willing to complete Bachelor’s degree. - Accelerators: MRP/ERP system knowledge. - Competent PC skills. - Good written and verbal communication skills. - Oracle Experience. - Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and unrestricted basis. - This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship now or in the future (e.g., H-1B, TN, E-3, O-1, L-1, or employment-based permanent residence sponsorship). - Candidates working under temporary employment authorization, including F-1 OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, or similar programs, are not eligible for this position. - Additional content: At Graco, you truly make a difference... (culture, career path). This is more like benefits/culture but not explicit benefits. Then: Graco offers attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities. Graco’s comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more. Our company uses E-Verify... (legal). Then: The base pay range for this position is listed below, exclusive of fringe benefits or other compensation... $45,600.00 - $79,900.00. We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe intro), Responsibilities (What You Will Do), Requirements/Qualifications (What You Will Bring), Benefits (benefits listed), Pay (pay range). Schedule? Not mentioned (no schedule details). So we omit Schedule. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. No job title given explicitly; we can ignore. We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all points. We need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose, use
. Thus we can have sections:
About the role
with paragraph(s) describing temporary 6 month contract, manufacturing environment, forecasting, planning, scheduling, etc. Might combine some of the intro and first paragraph. But we need to avoid duplication. The intro includes: "This role is a temporary position, estimated for a 6 month contract Within a manufacturing environment, forecast, plan and schedule assigned products to meet customers’ needs in the most timely and efficient manner. Meet customer service level objectives and planned inventory objectives with some assistance from other Planners or managers. Communicate with a variety of cross functional teams in factory and corporate positions. Gain experience and ownership of role through inventory management, demand planning, purchasing, and schedule execution on the shop floor." We can put that as prose in About the role. Then Responsibilities: list of duties from "What You Will Do at Graco Planning" etc. Use- .
Then Requirements/Qualifications: list from "What You Will Bring to Graco". Use
- .
Then Benefits: list from "Graco’s comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more." Also maybe mention "attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities." But we need to keep substantive. We'll list benefits as bullet points.
Then Pay: paragraph with pay range.
We must not include legal boilerplate like E-Verify, immigration sponsorship, etc. Those are considered legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should remove the immigration sponsorship lines, E-Verify, etc. Also remove "Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and unrestricted basis." That's also legal? Might be considered a requirement but it's about work authorization; could be considered legal. However it's a substantive requirement about eligibility. The instruction says remove legal boilerplate. But is that considered boilerplate? It's a standard requirement. Might be considered legal. Safer to remove it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove legal boilerplate. That includes work authorization statements. So we will omit those lines.
Also remove "At Graco, you truly make a difference..." maybe that's culture but not boilerplate; it's substantive about company culture. Keep? It's not a list; it's prose. Could be kept under About the role or a separate section like "Company culture". But we only have allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could put culture under About the role as prose.
We also need to remove duplicated lines. Not seeing duplicates.
We must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Benefits are stated (medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement). Pay is stated. Schedule not stated, so omit.
We need to ensure we don't create a section with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We'll need to wrap sections in appropriate tags.
Example:
About the role
This role is a temporary position, estimated for a 6‑month contract. Within a manufacturing environment you will forecast, plan and schedule assigned products to meet customers’ needs in the most timely and efficient manner, meet customer service level objectives and planned inventory objectives with assistance from other planners or managers, communicate with cross‑functional teams in factory and corporate positions, and gain experience and ownership through inventory management, demand planning, purchasing, and schedule execution on the shop floor.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute the flow of externally procured materials from the supplier into the factory for assigned products ensuring inventory optimization and flow of material.
- Plan all purchased and manufactured parts utilizing the best ordering approach (EOQ, min/max, fixed days, Kanban, MRP, etc.).
- Ensure accurate planning parameters are set in planning systems – GAINS, Oracle.
- Schedule manufacturing orders and ensure customer requirements are met.
- Give work direction and prioritize schedules on the shop floor.
- Communicate with customer service to align priorities to meet customer requirements.
- Keep management proactively informed of manufacturing challenges and issues (capacity, machine downtime, and fluctuations in resources).
- Manage all inventory to ensure cell objectives are met and in line with company objectives.
- Manage assigned product to meet customer service and inventory plans.
- Proactively communicate supply shortages, delivery changes, or quality issues to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
- Ensure GAINS system is maintained and that all exceptions are analyzed; use GAINS to create, adjust, and maintain product and component forecast to drive the Oracle planning system while analyzing supply and demand.
- Communicate with marketing to refine and improve data to accurately forecast product.
- Report on areas such as inventory and service levels.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field is preferred or 4+ years of proven planning experience working in a manufacturing and/or distribution environment.
- Registered and working towards APICS CPIM certification if Bachelor’s degree is not in Logistics and Supply Chain Planning field.
- Knowledge of Supply Chain and lean manufacturing concepts, practices, and procedures.
- No degree plan in place to enroll in Operations Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, or related field and willing to complete Bachelor’s degree.
- MRP/ERP system knowledge.
- Competent PC skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Oracle experience.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Stock purchase plan
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement
Pay
The base pay range for this position is $
- .
Then Benefits: list from "Graco’s comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more." Also maybe mention "attractive compensation, benefits and career development opportunities." But we need to keep substantive. We'll list benefits as bullet points.
Then Pay: paragraph with pay range.
We must not include legal boilerplate like E-Verify, immigration sponsorship, etc. Those are considered legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should remove the immigration sponsorship lines, E-Verify, etc. Also remove "Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and unrestricted basis." That's also legal? Might be considered a requirement but it's about work authorization; could be considered legal. However it's a substantive requirement about eligibility. The instruction says remove legal boilerplate. But is that considered boilerplate? It's a standard requirement. Might be considered legal. Safer to remove it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove legal boilerplate. That includes work authorization statements. So we will omit those lines.
Also remove "At Graco, you truly make a difference..." maybe that's culture but not boilerplate; it's substantive about company culture. Keep? It's not a list; it's prose. Could be kept under About the role or a separate section like "Company culture". But we only have allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could put culture under About the role as prose.
We also need to remove duplicated lines. Not seeing duplicates.
We must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Benefits are stated (medical, dental, stock purchase plan, 401(k), tuition reimbursement). Pay is stated. Schedule not stated, so omit.
We need to ensure we don't create a section with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We'll need to wrap sections in appropriate tags.
Example:
- .
Then Requirements/Qualifications: list from "What You Will Bring to Graco". Use