Production Planner: Scheduling, Materials & On-Time Delivery

Kirby Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Stewart & Stevenson in Houston, TX seeks a Production Planner I to build and manage the production schedule across the plant, ensuring efficient use of equipment and on-time fulfillment of customer demand.

The role collaborates with production leaders, sales, and project management to prioritize work orders, monitor materials, and communicate schedule changes while handling capacity planning and BOM/ECO awareness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; will consider direct job-related experience in lieu of degree.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in industrial equipment sales process including planning and/or scheduling.
• Experience in production planning in a heavy equipment environment; MRP experience required.

Responsibilities

• Build and update production schedules to ensure continuous plant operations and prevent production downtime. Communicate production schedules out to the production based on demand from ASCP.
• Review Shortage reports to ensure materials are properly planned.
• Monitor inventory levels, work-in-progress, and production capacity to anticipate bottlenecks or shortages.
• Plan and modify daily production schedules including coordinating with leaders to analyze root cause and prevent recurrence.
• Plan with manufacturing and supply chain to resolve scheduling conflicts, material constraints and delays.
• Understand Bills of Materials and ECOs per engineering changes.
• Plan for routers based on capacity analysis for Buy items vs Make.
• Communicate with project management, shipping/receiving, quality and production to provide real time information on late shipments or expedited orders.
• Attend weekly production meetings and provide project status updates; update production on shortages.
• Assist the Project Manager in reviewing open PO and shortage reports for production meetings.

Skills

Independent work

Clear written communication

Logical reasoning

Oral communication

Interpersonal skills

Customer focus

Time management

Problem solving

Project management

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Experience in lieu of degree considered

Tools

ERP SAP

Oracle ERP

MRP systems

Job description

Stewart & Stevenson in Houston, TX seeks a Production Planner I to build and manage the production schedule across the plant, ensuring efficient use of equipment and on-time fulfillment of customer demand.

The role collaborates with production leaders, sales, and project management to prioritize work orders, monitor materials, and communicate schedule changes while handling capacity planning and BOM/ECO awareness.