Production Planner

Koch IP Holdings, LLC is seeking a Production Planner for the South Grafton, Massachusetts facility. The role focuses on production scheduling, material requirements planning, and inventory coordination to meet customer demand while optimizing manufacturing capacity, delivery performance, and stock levels. The ideal candidate has strong SAP experience, understands manufacturing planning processes, and can translate customer demand and material availability into achievable production schedules in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

• Develop and maintain production schedules to support customer demand while maximizing manufacturing efficiency.
• Plan raw material and component requirements and communicate shortages and replenishment needs to the Purchasing team.
• Use SAP (MRP/ERP) to review demand, material availability, inventory, production orders, and schedules; review MRP recommendations and adjust production orders as needed.
• Coordinate with Purchasing to confirm material availability and escalate shortages that may affect production schedules.
• Analyze inventory levels and implement strategies to minimize shortages and excess inventory.
• Collaborate with Production, Customer Service, Engineering, and Sales to balance customer demand with manufacturing capacity.
• Monitor production order progress, address delays, and coordinate recovery plans with Operations and Customer Service.
• Track schedule adherence, capacity utilization, and on-time delivery; identify opportunities to improve planning effectiveness.
• Maintain accurate planning parameters in SAP, including lead times, lot sizes, and scheduling assumptions.
• Communicate production priorities, schedule changes, and potential delivery risks to cross-functional teams.
• Publish and monitor production planning KPIs such as schedule adherence, backlog, and on-time delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning and scheduling processes using Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies.
• Support internal quality, ISO, Environmental, and EH&S systems by following established policies and procedures.

Basic qualifications include at least five years of experience in production planning, scheduling, materials planning, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment; experience with production scheduling, capacity planning, and material requirements planning; experience managing production orders, inventory planning, and material availability; and data analysis using SAP reports and Excel.

Preferred qualifications (ahead) include a bachelor’s degree in a related field, APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP certification, experience with finite capacity planning and schedule recovery, knowledge of manufacturing lead times, inventory controls, and KPIs, and experience in a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment.

Salary range for this role is approximately $75,000 to $90,000 per year and includes eligibility for variable pay in the form of a monetary bonus or other compensation.