Strategic Production Planner

Vertiv; Anderson (AK); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv is seeking a Senior Planner to lead production program planning across assigned areas, ensuring schedules align with forecasts, orders, and priorities. The role requires proactive risk identification, cross-functional coordination, and rapid plan adjustments to protect customer commitments.

This position emphasizes optimizing material availability, labor utilization, and inventory investment while maintaining master production plan integrity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3–5 years in production planning, material planning, supply chain, manufacturing, or a related operations role.
• Strong understanding of scheduling, capacity planning, inventory control.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems and Excel.
• Ability to analyze data, communicate risks, and develop practical recovery plans.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and preparation of production programs for assigned areas, ensuring schedules are created and maintained in a timely manner to support sales forecasts, customer orders, and operational priorities.
• Develop, analyze, and adjust production schedules to optimize material availability, labor utilization, equipment capacity, and inventory investment.
• Maintain ownership of work order control on the production floor, including schedule changes, order prioritization, and daily coordination with cross-functional teams.
• Proactively identify and expedite operations and/or materials that may delay the production schedule, adjusting plans as needed to support customer promise dates.
• Analyze demand, capacity, inventory, and production performance data to identify constraints, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare, review, and communicate daily, weekly, and monthly planning reports, ensuring accurate visibility to schedule performance, risks, and recovery actions.
• Drive schedule adherence by monitoring production progress against the approved plan, identifying deviations, and coordinating timely corrective actions to support customer commitments.
• Support and coordinate annual inventory activities, cycle counts, and inventory accuracy initiatives as required.
• Participate in Gemba Walks, Kaizen events, and continuous improvement activities to improve planning processes, production flow, inventory control, and customer delivery performance.
• Provide guidance, training, and minimal supervision to planners, and other team members as needed.
• Lead or facilitate meetings with interdisciplinary groups to align priorities, resolve constraints, and achieve the monthly production plan.
• Serve as a key planning contact for escalations, schedule risks, material shortages, and customer delivery concerns.

Skills

Production scheduling

Capacity planning

Inventory control

ERP/MRP experience

Excel

Data analysis

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Vertiv is seeking a Senior Planner to lead production program planning across assigned areas, ensuring schedules align with forecasts, orders, and priorities. The role requires proactive risk identification, cross-functional coordination, and rapid plan adjustments to protect customer commitments.

This position emphasizes optimizing material availability, labor utilization, and inventory investment while maintaining master production plan integrity.