Strategic Production Planner — On‑Time Delivery & Margin Growth

Leoforce; Springfield (NJ); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strong Benefit Offerings

401K Plan

Great PTO Package

Job summary

Leoforce in Springfield, NJ is seeking a Production Planner to manage multi-period execution of customer commitments and drive on-time delivery. You will partner with operations to keep parts moving on schedule and communicate risks to leadership.

You will plan orders, account for yield factors, and involve manufacturing engineering as needed, documenting lessons learned for future orders while coordinating with quality and design teams to ensure a smooth flow.

Qualifications

• Experience: Mid Level

Responsibilities

• Monthly, quarterly, yearly execution of customer commitments
• 100% OTIF to all customer commitments
• Partnering with the operations team to ensure parts move through facility on or ahead of schedule
• Communicating execution risks and opportunities to Leadership
• Ensuring risk mitigation plans are in place at start of execution (planning orders, yield factors, involve manufacturing engineering)
• Document lessons learned and opportunities for manufacturing improvements for subsequent orders
• Coordinate resources (quality, manufacturing engineering, design engineering) for seamless progress
• Drive rapid resolution of ECOs, EOs and MRB for development parts
• Proactive planning to identify outsourcing vs insourcing to reduce lead time and risk
• Work with engineering and operations to drive cost improvement projects to meet gross margin targets
• Produce hardware execution schedules for management/customers
• Maintain accurate ERP data (commit dates, orders, quantities)

Job description

Leoforce in Springfield, NJ is seeking a Production Planner to manage multi-period execution of customer commitments and drive on-time delivery. You will partner with operations to keep parts moving on schedule and communicate risks to leadership.

You will plan orders, account for yield factors, and involve manufacturing engineering as needed, documenting lessons learned for future orders while coordinating with quality and design teams to ensure a smooth flow.