Production Planner

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Department: Production Planning and Control

About the role

The Production Planner is responsible for creating, organizing, guiding, and scheduling production. This includes providing resource analysis, detailed manufacturing schedules, and production plans, as well as conducting studies and projections to avoid bottlenecks while monitoring the production process to optimize capacity, utilization, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, monitor, and maintain summary schedules to meet customer demand.
• Act as the primary information conduit between operations and commercial departments.
• Perform schedule analysis such as critical path identification, schedule risk identification, and variance investigation.
• Monitor and analyze capacity to identify and resolve constraints using level‑loading, expediting, and outsourcing.
• Proactively identify and manage the resolution of critical schedule issues.
• Lead resolution of urgent product manufacturing issues to support the master schedule.
• Integrate, maintain, and analyze primary data related to project backlog and history.
• Compile and analyze key performance and visual management indicators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Three to five years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated competency in initiative, problem solving, customer service, and interpersonal communication.
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office products, especially Excel; proficiency preferred.
• Familiarity with MRP software; SAP experience strongly preferred.
• Physical ability to work in both office and manufacturing settings, including routine movement throughout the facility, lifting up to 15 lb, and ascending/descending stairs daily.

Pay

$65,000 to $75,000