Lab Capacity & Scheduling Planner

generac; Waukesha (WI); Vor Ort; USD 70.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Generac is seeking an Engineering Lab Planner to develop and maintain long-range plans for lab resources and forward-looking schedules. The role collaborates with NPI/NPD, Technical Engineering, Lab Operations, Test Engineering, and program leadership to translate project demand into executable lab capacity plans across test cells, technicians, and specialized tools.

The planner evaluates capacity, capability, and constraints, identifies conflicts, and recommends tradeoffs to enable on-time

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering, or similar).
• 5+ years' experience in planning, scheduling, or project coordination roles supporting engineering and test.
• Experience in planning, scheduling, or program coordination in technically constrained environments, with demonstrated ability to identify schedule conflicts and elevate resource/capability risks.
• Experience creating resource-loaded schedules, capacity models, and iterated project schedules to quantify the impacts of competing demand on constrained lab resources.
• Experience building and maintaining forward looking schedules.

Aufgaben

• Develops, publishes, and maintains long-range lab resource plans and forward-looking schedules for test cells, test technicians, and specialized test tools.
• Builds and maintains resource-loaded schedules that account for capacity, changeover/setup time, and technical constraints; updates schedules as priorities and test definitions evolve.
• Identifies capacity/capability conflicts and communicates risks and tradeoffs with recommended mitigation options.
• Partners with Lab Operations to maintain a lab resource catalog and ensures planning assumptions are current and auditable.
• Establishes and maintains lab planning cadence, intake, and prioritization views.
• Surfaces conflicts and decision needs, document assumptions, and elevate resource/capability constraints to the Lab Portfolio Manager and relevant stakeholders.
• Supports NPI/NPD planning by integrating test readiness, facility needs, and prerequisite activities into the schedule.
• Facilitates alignment across accountable teams and escalates constraint impacts and decisions as needed.
• Prepares and presents lab capacity and schedule health to the Lab Portfolio Manager and program stakeholders.
• Drives continuous improvement of lab planning processes, scheduling governance, data quality, and tool utilization to improve visibility and reliability of long-range plans.

Kenntnisse

Planning

Scheduling

Capacity planning

Cross-functional

Smartsheet

OnePlan

MS Office

Resource allocation

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Smartsheet

OnePlan

MS Office

Jobbeschreibung

Generac is seeking an Engineering Lab Planner to develop and maintain long-range plans for lab resources and forward-looking schedules. The role collaborates with NPI/NPD, Technical Engineering, Lab Operations, Test Engineering, and program leadership to translate project demand into executable lab capacity plans across test cells, technicians, and specialized tools.

The planner evaluates capacity, capability, and constraints, identifies conflicts, and recommends tradeoffs to enable on-time