Senior Associate, Production Planning

About the role

Location: North Amityville, NY. Performs planning and scheduling activities required to coordinate the flow of materials, parts, and products through various stages of production.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, and monitors production schedules to support customer requirements, labor loading, and capacity constraints.
• Reviews schedules and production plans to determine material and component requirements, ensuring timely availability to meet manufacturing and delivery commitments.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets planning data to prepare reports, identify risks, and recommend actions that support internal and external demand requirements for materials and finished goods.
• Expedites the movement of materials, parts, and assemblies within and between departments in alignment with production priorities and shipping schedules.
• Works under general supervision and applies established planning principles and processes to resolve routine to moderately complex issues.
• Utilize MRP systems to create, schedule, adjust, and release manufacturing orders for multi-level products in support of production and delivery requirements.
• Analyze material and component availability to ensure timely release of manufacturing orders and uninterrupted production flow.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain to expedite parts and resolve shortages impacting production schedules.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to maintain accurate planning parameters, including lead times, lot sizes, labor standards, and setup hours.
• Monitor production operations and track order status to ensure on-time completion and adherence to shipping schedules.
• Implement production schedules while balancing labor loading and capacity requirements across manufacturing areas.
• Review schedules and bills of material to determine material requirements and align supply with production demand.
• Expedite the movement of materials, parts, and assemblies within and between departments to support schedule attainment.
• Collaborate with stockroom, shop floor, and cross-functional teams to resolve known and unexpected material shortages.
• Collect and analyze planning data to identify risks, support corrective actions, and improve schedule performance and production efficiency.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
• Travel requires less than 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.