Site Production Planner: Data-Driven Scheduling

Morton-Salt; Grand Saline (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Morton Salt in Grand Saline, TX is seeking a Site Production Planner to develop and maintain data-driven production schedules that align with forecasts, orders, and inventory goals. You will liaison between CSRs, Supply & Demand Planners and the plant to ensure on-time delivery.

Responsibilities include creating multi-month production plans, coordinating with sales, logistics, and manufacturing, and driving continuous improvements to reduce lead times and optimize resource use.

Responsibilities

• Develop daily, weekly and monthly production schedules from forecasts and orders.
• Plan production 3 months ahead considering supply constraints.
• Set production priorities by capacity, orders, forecasts, and inventory needs.
• Collaborate with sales, CS, logistics, supply chain planning and manufacturing.
• Monitor plans against material, labor, and equipment capacity.
• Track KPIs (OTIF, inventory) and drive process improvements.
• Analyze schedule adherence, turnover, forecast accuracy, and backlog.
• Identify and implement scheduling improvements to reduce lead times.
• Provide updates to Supply Chain Leadership on schedules and disruptions.
• Communicate order impacts to CS, Transportation & Replenishment.
• Identify bottlenecks and work with Ops to improve throughput.
• Mitigate inventory shortages or excesses while meeting demand.
• Create and monitor stock transfer orders for shipped-but-not-produced items.
• Collaborate with Operations, Sales, CS, and SC to meet objectives.
• Lead daily/weekly scheduling meetings and maintain master data integrity.

Skills

Production scheduling

Forecasting

Inventory management

Job description

Morton Salt in Grand Saline, TX is seeking a Site Production Planner to develop and maintain data-driven production schedules that align with forecasts, orders, and inventory goals. You will liaison between CSRs, Supply & Demand Planners and the plant to ensure on-time delivery.

Responsibilities include creating multi-month production plans, coordinating with sales, logistics, and manufacturing, and driving continuous improvements to reduce lead times and optimize resource use.