Production Planning & Scheduling Manager

We need to output HTML fragment with sections with headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only sections that have real specific content. We need to extract from posting: - About the role: maybe the introductory paragraph about company and role summary. The "Position Summary" is about the role. Also the first paragraph about company could be considered "About the role"? Usually "About the role" is description of role. We'll include a section with heading

About the role

containing the Position Summary and maybe company overview? But we must not repeat job title as heading. We can include company description as part of About the role. - Responsibilities: list of duties under "Key Responsibilities". We'll need to extract bullet points. The text includes many sentences; we need to convert to

• . We must preserve all substantive info, not invent. - Requirements: "Position Requirements" list of bullet-like sentences. We'll create
  • . - Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Qualifications". We'll create a section

    Qualifications

    (or Preferred Qualifications). The instruction says use headings like Qualifications. We'll include Preferred Qualifications there. - Skills: maybe not explicitly separate; but we could embed skills within Requirements. However we should only create sections if there is real specific content. There's no separate Skills section; we could omit. - Benefits: there is a "Benefits" paragraph with list. We'll create

    Benefits

    with
    • . - Pay: there is Salary Range: $126,000 - $146,000. So we need Pay section with that info. We'll put in

      . - Schedule: maybe Work Environment mentions onsite, but not schedule like full-time etc. There's no explicit schedule. So we omit Schedule. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. Remove duplicated lines, navigation, cookie, legal, etc. Also remove "Position Summary" heading? We'll not use that as heading; we will embed content under About the role. We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract. First, company overview paragraph: "Join a manufacturing leader with over 50 years of excellence, where every role contributes to building reliable transportation solutions that people depend on everyday across the United States and Ca nada. At ENC, we prioritize safety, quality, innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth – creating vehicles our teams can take pride in. Founded in 1975, ENC (ElDorado National – California) is a leading U.S. transportation manufacturer specializing in design, engineering, and end-to-end production of heavy-duty buses, shuttles, and cargo vehicles through a custom-build, mixed-model assembly process. Each vehicle is produced in our purpose-built facility in Riverside, California supporting public agencies and private transportation providers nationwide. We offer one of the industry’s widest portfolios of power options, including 100% battery-electric, diesel-electric hybrid, CNG, and clean diesel. ENC is committed to revitalizing American manufacturing through innovation, customer focus, and the delivery of high-quality vehicles that keep communities connected, supported, and moving forward." We can include that in About the role. Position Summary: "The ENC is seeking a highly analytical and execution-oriented Production Planning & Scheduling Manager to build and lead manufacturing planning. This role owns the integrated planning function, establishes and leads Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP), and builds the processes and ERP data discipline required for ENC's growth. The ideal candidate has extensive manufacturing planning, materials management, and ERP/MRP expertise. This leader will balance production capacity, inventory, lead times, and operational constraints while translating the master schedule into executable work-center and station-level plans." We'll combine. Now Responsibilities: The list under "Key Responsibilities". It's a paragraph with many sentences separated by periods. We need to break into list items. We'll extract each duty as separate

    • . Let's parse: - Own and manage the master production schedule, aligning customer backlog and demand forecasts, capacity, material availability, operational constraints, and delivery commitments. - Establish and lead the SIOP process, including demand and capacity assumptions, scenario recommendations, decision records, and action follow-through. - Obtain leadership approval for major commercial, spending, and capacity trade-offs. - Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Materials, Production, Quality, and Finance to maintain alignment to a single integrated plan. - Develop production ramp scenarios showing customer build-slot allocation, model and propulsion mix, labor requirements, station capacity and buffers, alternative production rates, and delivery impacts. - Establish schedule approval and change-control rules, including a protected near-term schedule. Manage changes within delegated authority and escalate conflicts affecting customer commitments, spending, or capacity to the VP of Operations with recommended options. - Ensure scheduling activities support compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements. - Own the overall Clear-to-Build process, ensuring schedules released to the production floor are supported by required customer configuration approvals, engineering releases, BOMs and drawings, engineering change incorporation, material availability, tooling, labor and station capacity, and applicable quality requirements. - Establish readiness signoffs from responsible functions, including Procurement confirmation of critical material commitments. - Hold schedule release when required conditions are unmet and escalate proposed exceptions to the VP of Operations for a documented decision, with risks, owners, and recovery actions identified. - Translate the master schedule into work-center and station-level execution plans that support production flow and floor-level accountability. - Validate actual progress and constraints through regular production-floor engagement with Manufacturing leadership. - Verify planning-critical BOM and lead-time inputs with Engineering and Procurement, assign discrepancies to the responsible data owners, and drive timely resolution to prevent material shortages, schedule disruptions, and production delays. - Establish ERP planning data standards and validation routines for BOMs, routings, lead times, calendars, and planning parameters with the responsible functions. - Maintain planning-owned parameters; Engineering retains technical BOM ownership, and Procurement owns supplier commitments. - Serve as the planning lead for Epicor implementation, stabilization, and ongoing improvement, ensuring planning logic reflects operational reality. - Use advanced Excel and ERP reporting tools to support scenario planning and decision-making. - Serve as the escalation point for complex scheduling and production planning issues. - Use dependable reporting, capacity modeling, and scenario analysis with available information to identify bottlenecks, constraints, schedule risks, and recovery opportunities. - Validate assumptions and improve data reliability as planning capabilities mature. - Provide early warning of emerging schedule, procurement, and cross-program risks and communicate data-driven recommendations to management and internal stakeholders. - Establish the weekly planning performance review within the Operations management operating system. - Report planned versus actual station starts and completions, upcoming Clear-to-Build status, aging or stalled work in process, and delivery risks; track constraints by age, severity, owner, and recovery date. - Design and implement planning processes, standard work, meeting cadences, responsibilities, escalation rules, and a phased improvement roadmap that supports ENC's growth. - Lead cross-functional adoption of planning processes, resolve barriers with functional leaders, and use performance results to reduce delays, improve flow, and increase schedule reliability. That seems comprehensive. Now Requirements: Under "Position Requirements". It's a paragraph with many sentences. We'll break into list items. - Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Business, or a related field. - Five or more years of progressive experience in production planning, scheduling, capacity planning, materials management, supply chain planning, or ERP/MRP planning within a high-precision or complex manufacturing environment. - Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, production planning, inventory management, material availability, capacity planning, customer delivery commitments, and SIOP. - Strong knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Epicor, JD Edwards, or similar platforms, including planning master data and scheduling logic. - Understanding of low-volume, high-mix and engineered-to-order manufacturing environments with complex capacity constraints and long planning horizons. - Demonstrated ability to manage capacity constraints, production schedules, material requirements, and manufacturing execution workflows. - Ability to incorporate equipment availability, planned downtime, and maintenance constraints into production capacity plans in coordination with Facilities and Maintenance. - Knowledge of OEM manufacturing standards and production processes for heavy vehicles or comparable engineered products. - Demonstrated experience personally building or materially improving a manufacturing planning function, implementing processes across departments, securing adoption, and achieving measurable improvements in readiness, schedule reliability, or production flow. - Experience implementing, optimizing, or standardizing ERP/MRP planning processes, parameters, and master data. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to challenge assumptions, identify constraints, assess risks, and establish realistic commitments. - Demonstrated ability to lead process improvement and operational optimization initiatives using metric-driven decision-making and structured improvement methods. - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, lookup functions, data analysis, and macros/VBA or equivalent advanced tools. - Demonstrated ability to coordinate production planning, scheduling, materials, maintenance, manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain teams. - Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate data-driven insights and recommendations at all organizational levels. - Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with changing priorities while maintaining urgency, clarity, and accountability. - Demonstrated ownership, execution focus, and ability to drive results across functional boundaries. Now Preferred Qualifications: Under "Preferred Qualifications". We'll list: - APICS certification, including CPIM or CSCP, is strongly preferred. - Experience in automotive, aerospace, rail, heavy industrial manufacturing, or a related production environment. - Experience participating in or leading ERP implementations, MRP transformations, or major system transitions. - Experience planning engineered products from customer order definition and engineering release through procurement, manufacturing, testing, and delivery, including new product introductions and pilot-to-production transitions. - Project management experience involving production planning, supply chain, manufacturing readiness, or operational execution. Now Benefits: Under "Benefits". The paragraph: "Comprehensive benefits package: Medical (including FSA & HSA), dental, vision, life and disability insurance, EAP, mental health, and wellness programs 401(k) with employer match Paid time off and twelve (12) paid holidays Employee referral program Career growth and development opportunities Career Growth at ENC We believe great careers and leaders are built from within. Many of our team members have advanced into roles that lead or into specialized technical positions. We invest in hands-on training, skill development, and long-term career pathways within manufacturing operations." We need to extract list items. The first sentence lists benefits: Medical (including FSA & HSA), dental, vision, life and disability insurance, EAP, mental health, and wellness programs. Then "401(k) with employer match". Then "Paid time off and twelve (12) paid holidays". Then "Employee referral program". Then "Career growth and development opportunities". Then there is a separate paragraph about Career Growth at ENC; we could include that as part of Benefits or maybe as separate section? But we only have Benefits heading; we can include that as part of Benefits list. We'll create list items: - Medical (including FSA & HSA) - Dental - Vision - Life and disability insurance - EAP (Employee Assistance Program) - Mental health and wellness programs - 401(k) with employer match - Paid time off and twelve (12) paid holidays - Employee referral program - Career growth and development opportunities - Hands-on training, skill development, and long-term career pathways within manufacturing operations (from Career Growth at ENC paragraph) Now Pay: Salary Range: $126,000 - $146,000. We'll put in

      . Now Schedule: Not present, omit. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown. We'll structure:

      About the role

      ...company overview... Position Summary...

      Responsibilities

      • ...
      ...