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Textron Systems in Williamsport, PA is seeking an Associate Production Planner to help balance demand and supply. You will forecast, identify imbalances, and coordinate actions with Procurement, Manufacturing and Operations to align production plans with demand.
You will support on-time delivery and provide data for refurb and production cells. The role emphasizes collaboration across departments, attention to capacity constraints, and effective utilization of resources to achieve cost-efficient
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Identify and evaluate the ever-changing demand/supply environment utilizing modeling tools to proactively ensure a balanced production plan. Resolve issues driving imbalances to ensure on time delivery of parts to teams.
Provide long range 30 day look ahead to Lycoming to identify shortage issues and facilitate workaround planning.
Responsible for identifying potential out of balance conditions between demand and supply over the planning horizon. This includes identifying critical long pole shortages, capacity constraints and/or schedule imbalances resulting in an unrealistic flow rate.
Responsible for coordinating actions necessary to align supply to demand. This could result in coordinating actions with Procurement, Manufacturing, Operations Management, etc. Including the realignment of demand through direct facilitation with the demand owners.
Supplies directional input to the individual production and refurbishment cells based on informational analysis and direct interface with Planning Manager.
Coordinate any major activity relating to the factory floor that may affect the scheduling of jobs or available net capacity of critical constraints (i.e., machines down, manpower adjustments, missing machine group codes, etc.) and adjust the plan as needed.
Accountable for managing the shop loads and developing plans for balancing critical resources while working with manufacturing supervision in their efforts to produce the product and obtain the most effective utilization of equipment in a cost-effective manner.
Supports delivery of product to the customer
Accurate and timely delivery of data in support of the refurb and production cells
Constraints identified and monitored
Work together across business departments.
At Textron Systems, our talented people make us successful. We promote an inclusive environment where we value individuality, differences, and unique perspectives.
Our Company is committed to offering employees opportunities to grow and develop. Our benefits and compensation packages are designed to help our talented employees excel and achieve their goals, so they can make a difference every day in and outside of the workplace. Below are just a few examples!
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Textron is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability, sex (including pregnancy and sexual orientation), genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements, including US Citizenship, for access to classified information.
Recruiting Company: Textron Systems: Lycoming Engines
Primary Location: US-Pennsylvania-Williamsport
Job Function: Supply Chain
Schedule: Full-time
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Job Type: Standard
Shift: First Shift
Relocation: Unavailable
Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time
Job Posting: 11/05/2026, 12:32:15 PM
Job Number: 346102