Strategic Production Planner & Scheduling Lead

Nexthermal

Battle Creek (MI)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

35 hours ago
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Job summary

Nexthermal in Battle Creek, MI seeks a Production Scheduler to develop and execute a comprehensive production planning strategy that balances demand, capacity, materials, and workforce resources.

You will partner with Production, Supply Chain, Engineering, Customer Service, and Sales to establish finite-capacity scheduling, level workloads, and drive data-driven execution. The role also includes mentoring planners and leading continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or related field.
  • 5+ years of production planning, scheduling, or supply chain experience in manufacturing.
  • Experience implementing ERP or APS systems.
  • Strong understanding of MRP/CRP concepts and ERP tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the business process owner for production planning and scheduling within the ERP system.
  • Develop finite-capacity production schedules considering labor, equipment, tooling and materials.
  • Establish methodologies aligning demand with available manufacturing resources.
  • Analyze work center loading and capacity to identify bottlenecks and improve throughput.
  • Lead operations planning to ensure realistic commitments to customers.
  • Drive workload leveling and resource balancing across departments.
  • Develop planning metrics and dashboards for capacity, throughput, and on-time delivery.
  • Create long- and short-term production plans based on forecast demand and capacity.
  • Lead ERP implementation and optimization for planning and scheduling.
  • Partner with ERP project teams to design, test, and deploy planning functionality.
  • Develop workflows, scheduling rules, capacity models, and planning parameters.
  • Ensure routing, work center, labor standards, and capacity data are maintained.
  • Train users and champion adoption of planning best practices.
  • Drive improvements in schedule accuracy and labor utilization.
  • Mentor production supervisors, planners, and schedulers.
  • Promote data-driven decision-making and schedule accountability.

Skills

Production planning
Scheduling
Capacity planning
Lean manufacturing
Theory of Constraints
Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or related field

Tools

ERP systems
APS systems
MRP/CRP concepts

Job description

Nexthermal in Battle Creek, MI seeks a Production Scheduler to develop and execute a comprehensive production planning strategy that balances demand, capacity, materials, and workforce resources.

You will partner with Production, Supply Chain, Engineering, Customer Service, and Sales to establish finite-capacity scheduling, level workloads, and drive data-driven execution. The role also includes mentoring planners and leading continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.

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