Senior Production Planner

Seven Executive Limited; Franklin (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Seven Executive Limited is seeking a Senior Production Planner to bring structure, visibility, and control to a fast-changing industrial operation. You will be the sole on-site planner, collaborating with production, supply chain, maintenance, and customer service while coordinating with a remote planning support team across time zones.

The role requires hands-on problem-solving, quick learning, and the ability to dive into systems and data to make improvements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Production Planner or Senior Planner in a complex industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience in low-structure, evolving processes.
• Hands-on ERP experience, preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365).
• Ability to self-learn systems without extensive local support.
• Strong analytical skills with shop-floor focus.
• Experience collaborating with remote teams or shared services is a strong plus.
• Fast learner who understands complex processes quickly.
• Structured thinker with strong prioritization under pressure.
• Proactive, independent, ownership-minded.
• Hands-on data, systems, and operational detail oriented.
• Resilient and adaptable in a constantly changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain short-, mid-, and long-term production plans in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Translate demand forecasts, customer orders, and constraints into feasible and executable production schedules.
• Balance machine capacity, material availability, changeovers, lead times, and service levels.
• Actively manage and replan in response to disruptions, breakdowns, quality issues, or changes.
• Gradually design, document, and implement planning processes, standards, and routines where they do not yet exist.
• Serve as on-site link between operations and remote system or planning support.

Skills

ERP systems

Dynamics 365

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Independence

Fast learner

Data-driven decisions

Communication under pressure

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Job description

Senior Production Planner – Industrial Manufacturing

Location

On-site (with remote planning support in a different time zone)

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Production Planner who thrives in complexity, ambiguity, and fast-changing industrial environments. This role is critical for bringing structure, visibility, and control to a manufacturing operation where processes are still evolving and operational maturity is a work in progress.

You will be the only planner on site, working closely with production, supply chain, maintenance, and customer service teams, while coordinating with a remote planning support team operating with a 6-hour time difference. This requires strong ownership, independence, and hands-on problem-solving skills.

The ideal candidate is someone who learns quickly, is comfortable rolling up their sleeves, and is not afraid to dive deep into systems, data, and shop-floor realities to make things work.

Key Responsibilities

Production Planning & Scheduling

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve short-, mid-, and long-term production plans in a complex manufacturing environment
• Translate demand forecasts, customer orders, and operational constraints into feasible
• and executable production schedules
• Balance competing priorities such as machine capacity, material availability,
• changeovers, lead times, and service levels
• Actively manage and replan in response to disruptions, breakdowns, quality issues, or

Structure & Process Optimization

• Bring structure and clarity to a planning environment with limited standardization and
• high operational variability
• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and planning gaps, and propose pragmatic
• improvements
• Gradually design, document, and implement planning processes, standards, and
• routines where they do not yet exist
• Act as a key contributor in the journey toward more mature and optimized planning
• practices

Systems & Data (D365)

• Take hands-on ownership of the planning setup and data within Microsoft Dynamics
• 365 (D365)
• Independently explore, understand, and configure system functionalities to support
• planning needs
• Ensure data accuracy (BOMs, routings, lead times, capacities, calendars, etc.) in close
• collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Serve as the on-site link between operations and remote system or planning support

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with production, logistics, procurement, maintenance, and quality teams
• on a daily basis
• Act as a trusted planning partner for plant management and operational leadership
• Coordinate effectively with remote planning support, managing time-zone differences
• and ensuring clear handovers
• Communicate clearly and decisively under pressure, especially when trade-offs and
• prioritization are required

Firefighting & Continuous Improvement

• Be comfortable operating in a highly dynamic environment
• Quickly assess situations, set priorities, and take action when things do not go
• according to plan
• Combine short-term problem solving with a long-term improvement mindset
• Use data and facts to drive decisions, while remaining pragmatic and execution-
• focused

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Production Planner or Senior Planner in a complex industrial manufacturing environment
• Proven track record of working in environments with low structure and evolving processes
• Solid hands-on experience with ERP systems, ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365
• (D365)
• Ability and willingness to self-learn systems without extensive local support
• Strong analytical skills combined with practical, shop-floor-oriented thinking
• Experience working with remote teams or shared services is a strong plus
• Fast learner who can quickly understand complex processes and systems
• Highly structured thinker who can create order out of chaos Strong prioritization skills and ability to make decisions under pressure
• Proactive, independent, and comfortable taking full ownership
• Hands-on mentality: not afraid to dive into data, systems, or operational details
• Resilient and adaptable in a constantly changing environment
• Clear communicator who can align stakeholders with different perspectives