Strategic Production Planner - Demand & Capacity Alignment

STULZ USA; Denton (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

STULZ USA is seeking a Production Planner to establish and maintain the Manufacturing Production Schedule and inventory levels of finished goods. The role ensures feasible plans with adequate capacity and material supply to meet customer requirements, coordinating with materials, procurement, engineering, manufacturing leadership, and sales.

Responsibilities include creating and maintaining plans, optimizing schedules, managing replenishment, and addressing supply constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 3-5+ years production/planning/scheduling experience in manufacturing.
• Strong ERP and computer software experience (e.g. SAP, S4/HANA, JDE, Excel).
• Manufacturing planning experience with high-customization, high-mix, low-volume production.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications such as Word/Excel.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the manufacturing production plan and create manufacturing orders per plan.
• Optimize production schedules in accordance to customer demand and available capacity.
• Accountable for downstream replenishment and timely release of manufacturing orders.
• Identify and address short-term supply constraints within the weekly process (long-term constraints within monthly process).
• Interface with QA and warehouse staff regarding rejected/defective materials, arranging replacements with operations or procurement.
• Participate in Supply Plan development and establish planning time fences for aggregate and detail Master Plans.
• Translate the Production Plan into a schedule for producing or acquiring components, materials and services.
• Maintain and provide valid lead time data to sales/marketing to guard against over-committing resources.
• Identify and resolve conflicts with supply and demand, and capacity with Operations Leadership.

Skills

ERP systems

Excel - VLOOKUP & PivotTables

Supply chain collaboration

Data analysis

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management

Tools

SAP

S4/HANA

JDE

Job description

STULZ USA is seeking a Production Planner to establish and maintain the Manufacturing Production Schedule and inventory levels of finished goods. The role ensures feasible plans with adequate capacity and material supply to meet customer requirements, coordinating with materials, procurement, engineering, manufacturing leadership, and sales.

Responsibilities include creating and maintaining plans, optimizing schedules, managing replenishment, and addressing supply constraints.