Sr Demand Planner

Comfort Systems USA; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TAS Energy Inc. in Houston is seeking a Sr. Demand Planner to drive on-time product delivery by shaping production schedules, material availability, and MRP-driven demand.

You will mentor planners, own ERP planning integrity across multiple sites, and lead data automation and standardization initiatives. This role requires strong analytical skills and collaboration with Planning, Scheduling, Production, Engineering, and Purchasing teams.

Qualifications

• Seven years of progressive experience in demand planning within a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Experience governing enterprise demand signals and driving MRP accuracy at scale.
• Proven track record of managing schedule risk and material constraints.

Responsibilities

• Support SOP development, automation initiatives, and companywide planning standardization.
• Reinforce standard demand governance, data discipline, and system accountability.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to demand planning, MRP accuracy, and inventory optimization.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for demand planning logic, MRP behavior, and ERP transactions.
• Monitor demand trends and communicate risks impacting inventory, lead times, and customer commitments.
• Challenge and correct demand driving transactions that create excess inventory, shortages, or false urgency.
• Review and verify the validity of purchase orders within one hour of notification.
• Partner with Planning, Scheduling, Production, Engineering, Purchasing, warehousing, and Project Management to align demand signals with execution reality.
• Develop, automate, maintain, and govern standardized MRP and demand integrity reports enterprise wide.
• Identify root causes of invalid demand signals and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Analyze MRP outputs to identify demand distortion, material risk, and procurement misalignment.
• Identify, validate, and correct true vs false demand drivers including duplicate demand and timing errors.
• Own and govern demand integrity within the ERP system across multiple manufacturing sites.

Skills

Demand planning

MRP / ERP

Data analysis

Lean / process improvement

APICS CPIM certification

Education

Four-year technical degree or six years of equivalent work experience

Tools

Infor LN ERP

Job description

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Sr. Demand Planner is a senior level planning professional responsible for ensuring on time delivery of product by proactively managing production schedules, material availability, and MRP driven demand. This role is expected to identify and mitigate risks, mentor planners, and serve as an ERP and planning subject matter expert.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support SOP development, automation initiatives, and companywide planning standardization
• Reinforce standard demand governance, data discipline, and system accountability
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to demand planning, MRP accuracy, and inventory optimization
• Serve as a subject matter expert for demand planning logic, MRP behavior, and ERP transactions
• Monitor demand trends and proactively communicate risks impacting inventory, lead times, and customer commitments
• Challenge and correct demand driving transactions that create excess inventory, shortages, or false urgency
• Review and verify the validity, accuracy, and necessity of purchase orders prior to approval within one hour of notification
• Partner with Planning, Scheduling, Production, Engineering, Purchasing, warehousing, and Project Management to align demand signals with execution reality
• Develop, automate, maintain, and govern standardized MRP and demand integrity reports used enterprise wide.
• Identify root causes of invalid demand signals and implement permanent corrective actions
• Analyze MRP outputs to identify demand distortion, material risk, and procurement misalignment
• Identify, validate, and correct true versus false demand drivers including duplicate demand, incorrect pegging, timing errors, and process breakdowns
• Own and govern demand integrity within the ERP system across multiple manufacturing sites
• All other duties as assigned by TAS

JOB SKILLS:

• Advanced experience with demand planning, MRP, CRP, Lean (or other waste elimination processes), and ISO 9000 (or other structured QMS) required
• APICS CPIM certification a plus
• Advanced proficiency with ERP systems (Infor LN preferred), MRP logic, demand planning analytics, and data automation required
• Committed to excellence and high standards
• Strong organizational, problem solving and analytical skills
• Working knowledge of data collection systems, proficient with data analysis and evaluation
• Proficient with PC applications, (MS Project, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Experience working in a network environment
• Ability to function under high stress environment
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to take input from multiple sources and prioritize own work effectively
• Ability to communicate effectively with superiors and peers as well as with individuals both inside and outside the company.
• Embody TAS core values of: Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, Customer Passion, Growth Oriented, Innovation and Value Driven.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING** : **

• Four-year technical degree or six years of equivalent work experience
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant industry experience (minimum seven years).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** : **

• Held a similar position within the industry
• Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive experience in demand planning, material planning, or production planning within a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience governing enterprise demand signals, correcting demand distortion, and driving MRP accuracy at scale.
• Proven track record of managing schedule risk, material constraints, and system-driven planning logic.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Position is at least 80% to 90% at a desk working with computer. Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing and performing repetitive motions. Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal and conduct extensive reading. The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you joinTAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.

TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customers’ facilities.

TAS' fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery.

With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals. More information is available on the company website at: www.tas.com.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: TAS has a tobacco‑free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. "smoking" and "tobacco or nicotine products" includes, but is not limited to, product such as cigarettes, e‑cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes

The above declarations are not intended to be an all‑inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Applications and resumes will be kept on file for a limited time and the Company is under no duty or obligation to contact applicants if they are not selected for the job applied for or if other jobs become available in the future. Applicants that desire to apply for a job that becomes available at the Company in the future, should submit a new employment application or resume.

TAS Energy Inc. guarantees equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.