Senior Production Planner

Trillium Engineering; Hood River (OR); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A manufacturing firm located in Hood River, Oregon, seeks a Production Planner to optimize the Master Production Plan, ensuring customer delivery commitments. This role involves overseeing the Master Production Schedule and collaborating with various teams to align demand, capacity, and material availability. Candidates should have 5–7 years of experience in production planning within complex environments, and familiarity with ERP systems is essential. Strong analytical and communication skills are required for effective problem-solving and data presentation.

Qualifications

• Experience in production planning and scheduling within complex manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of SIOP and MPS principles.
• Hands-on ERP experience with production planning and inventory management.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the Master Production Plan for customer delivery commitments.
• Oversee and maintain the Master Production Schedule (MPS).
• Collaborate with various teams to ensure timely material availability.

Skills

Communication skills

Team-oriented

Time management

Problem-solving skills

Organizational skills

Resourceful

Technology savvy

Education

5–7 years in production planning

APICS CPIM or CSCP certification

Tools

ERP systems

Advanced Planning Systems

Job description

Purpose of Position

Responsible for owning and continuously optimizing the Master Production Plan to meet customer delivery commitments while balancing capacity, material availability, and inventory objectives. This role leads advanced production planning, capacity modeling, and cross-functional coordination to ensure executable, resilient production plans that support business and financial goals.

Summary of Essential Job Functions

• Oversee and maintain the Master Production Schedule (MPS), aligning demand, capacity, and material availability across all production lines.
• Develop and maintain detailed production and capacity plans, including constraint-based modeling and scenario analysis for demand changes, material disruptions, and engineering changes.
• Collaborate with material planning, procurement, production, engineering, warehouse, and configuration management teams to ensure timely availability of materials and accurate system data.
• Lead production planning inputs for monthly SIOP, including risks, mitigation strategies, capacity trade-offs, and recommended decisions.
• Translate approved SIOP plans into executable schedules and monitor plan adherence.
• Develop and maintain visual management tools and dashboards that communicate plan performance, risks, and recovery actions to senior leadership.
• Establish, track, and improve planning KPIs such as schedule adherence, plan stability, capacity utilization, and inventory health.
• Own and continuously improve planning-related master data and parameters within ERP and Advanced Planning systems.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert and mentor for planning best practices and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Proactively identify planning gaps, lead root-cause analysis, and drive corrective actions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education And Experience Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in production planning and scheduling within a complex manufacturing environment (high-mix, low-volume preferred).
• Strong understanding of SIOP, MPS, capacity planning, and inventory management principles.
• 3–5 years of hands-on ERP experience with production planning and inventory management; experience with Advanced Planning Systems strongly preferred.
• Proven experience developing and presenting data-driven planning insights to senior leadership.
• APICS CPIM or CSCP certification preferred.

Physical Demands Of Position

• Physically able to lift up to 20 pounds (materials/equipment).
• Effective use of computer, laptop, cell phone and other mobile devices to exchange information.

Competencies And Skills Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Excellent team skills and team-oriented.
• Excellent time management skills and meets deadlines.
• Flexible; able to multi-task in response to time-sensitive and changing situations.
• Effective listening skills.
• Objective, solution-oriented problem-solving skills.
• Handles highly sensitive and confidential information.
• Resourceful, able to network and connect people to appropriate resources.
• Technology savvy, comfortable using MS software products.
• Strong planning and organizational skills, and follow-through.
• Resilient, stays positive and solution-oriented.
• Perceptive, discovers underlying issues in situations and re-states them in a helpful way.
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic, able to work without direct supervision.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.