Senior Production Planner & Materials Lead

True North Consultants, Inc.; Aliquippa (Beaver County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

True North Consultants, Inc. seeks a Production Planning & Materials Supervisor to turn customer demand and inventory targets into an executable production plan, ensuring a controlled flow of raw materials, WIP, and finished goods to support the plan.

The role focuses on planning, scheduling, work order management, and material availability, coordinating with Sales, Customer Service, Production, Warehouse, Purchasing, and Quality to keep ERP data accurate and production uninterrupted.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain the production plan based on customer demand, forecasts, inventory targets, capacity, labor and material availability.
• Coordinate scheduling and production sequence across extrusion, drying/baking, and packing operations to optimize efficiency and minimize changeovers and downtime.
• Continuously adjust the plan based on production performance, downtime, material availability, quality issues, and customer priorities.
• Monitor execution against plan and identify capacity constraints, delays, and delivery risks.
• Supervise creation, release, and closure of production work orders, ensuring BOMs, routing and traceability.
• Maintain planning data accuracy including lead times, BOMs, routings, and inventory parameters.
• Ensure raw materials, packaging and production requirements are available; coordinate with Purchasing and Warehouse to resolve shortages or delays.
• Maintain inventory levels and lot/batch traceability across materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Lead cycle counts and investigate discrepancies, driving root cause corrective actions.
• Coordinate warehouse activities and material staging to match production priorities.
• Ensure materials are correctly identified, available, and delivered to production on time.
• Coordinate receiving, storage, transfers, and finished goods movements with accurate ERP transactions.
• Segregate non-conforming or damaged materials and coordinate with Quality.
• Ensure finished goods are identified, stored, and ready for shipment.
• Act as a key link between Planning, Production, Warehouse, Purchasing, Sales, Customer Service, and Quality.
• Communicate production priorities, changes, and risks clearly and proactively.
• Coordinate with Sales and Customer Service to align production with customer requirements and shipping commitments.
• Work with Production to improve schedule adherence and resolve execution issues.
• Supervise and coordinate warehouse/material-handling personnel and set daily priorities.
• Maintain safety, inventory accuracy, material availability, and process adherence.
• Analyze deviations between plan and actuals and drive corrective actions.

Job description

True North Consultants, Inc. seeks a Production Planning & Materials Supervisor to turn customer demand and inventory targets into an executable production plan, ensuring a controlled flow of raw materials, WIP, and finished goods to support the plan.

The role focuses on planning, scheduling, work order management, and material availability, coordinating with Sales, Customer Service, Production, Warehouse, Purchasing, and Quality to keep ERP data accurate and production uninterrupted.