Senior Production Planning Lead – SAP S/4HANA & APS

Georg Fischer LLC; Irvine (CA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Georg Fischer LLC in Irvine, CA seeks an experienced Production Planning Lead to own end-to-end planning across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments. You will drive standards, governance, and process improvements while coordinating with Manufacturing, IT, and business partners.

The role emphasizes reducing manual work, improving data quality, and delivering measurable improvements in service levels, inventory, and schedule reliability. Travel to facilities is expected as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of experience in production planning, supply chain management, and business process ownership within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of production planning, MRP, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory management, and manufacturing operations.
• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA production planning or related supply chain processes.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve end-to-end production planning processes across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Establish and maintain planning standards, governance, workflows, and business rules.
• Drive process consistency while accommodating legitimate operational requirements across manufacturing sites.
• Support deployment, stabilization, and enhancement of APS solutions.
• Partner with business and IT to define requirements, testing strategies, integrations, and process improvements.
• Ensure planning systems reflect manufacturing constraints, capacities, resources, and priorities.
• Analyze planning performance and identify opportunities to improve service, inventory, schedules, and utilization.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring planning issues.
• Reduce manual processes, improve data quality, and increase planning efficiency.
• Develop and maintain planning metrics, reports, and dashboards for decision-making.
• Monitor KPIs including schedule attainment, inventory levels, material availability, capacity utilization, lead times, and planning stability.
• Translate data insights into actionable recommendations for business leaders.
• Develop user documentation and training materials; provide coaching to planners and users.
• Drive system adoption and continuous improvement through stakeholder engagement.
• Lead or participate in SAP S/4HANA/APS projects and cross-functional initiatives.
• Coordinate activities across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, IT, and partners.
• Manage project deliverables, risks, actions, and readiness activities.

Skills

MRP knowledge

Capacity planning

Scheduling

Inventory management

SAP S/4HANA

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Excel

BI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

Job description

Georg Fischer LLC in Irvine, CA seeks an experienced Production Planning Lead to own end-to-end planning across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments. You will drive standards, governance, and process improvements while coordinating with Manufacturing, IT, and business partners.

The role emphasizes reducing manual work, improving data quality, and delivering measurable improvements in service levels, inventory, and schedule reliability. Travel to facilities is expected as needed.