Production Planner Scheduler

Insight Global; Maryland; On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Production Planner for a client engagement in Maryland. This 6-month contract with extensions involves coordinating with production supervisors, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality engineers to meet schedules and priorities.

The role requires releasing work orders, maintaining master schedules for multiple lines and programs, and ensuring materials and tooling are available. Strong problem-solving and multi-tasking skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 4 years of production planning experience.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Release work orders to production floor based on master schedule, part availability and current capacity.
• Develop and maintain schedules for multiple production lines and programs.
• Create and track weekly schedules and update daily at the Gemba meetings.
• Prioritize tasks to ensure material, documents and tooling are available for production.
• Notify the operations manager when available resources do not support the production plan or the contract date is at risk.

Skills

Production planning

Multi-tasking

Problem solving

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Description

6-month contract w/ extensions!

Required Skills & Experience

• 4 years in a production planning position, planning and scheduling multiple production lines
• Ability to multi-task and handle multiple priorities
• Ability to investigate issues and problem solve

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Material Requirement (MRP) experience- SAP Experience

A client of Insight Global is looking for a Production Planner. The Production Planning position will be responsible for working with production supervisors, supply chain, manufacturing and quality engineers to ensure schedules and priorities are being met. Discuss and resolve medium to high complexity schedule issues. Essential Functions: Releases work orders to production floor based on internal master schedule, part availability and current capacity. May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Develops and maintains schedules for multiple production lines and multiple programs. Create and track weekly schedules and updates daily at the Gemba meetings. Creates a master schedule for all programs. Prioritize tasks for key stakeholders to ensure material, documents and tooling is available for production. Release and print production paperwork. Gathering and analyzing data to identify and create solutions to production issues. Notify the operations manager when available resources do not support the production plan or the contract date is at risk.