Strategic Supply Chain Planner

The SSI Group; Cerritos (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

CAPTEK in Cerritos, CA seeks a Supply Chain Planner to translate approved demand into executable, time-phased production and material plans across sites. You will drive orders from demand review through release, maintain dates and priorities, escalate risks with recovery actions, and coordinate with Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, and Customer Service to ensure realistic commitments.

This role requires hands-on ERP experience, strong planning discipline, and the ability to balance capacity,

Qualifications

• Experience planning in high-volume manufacturing across products, work centers, sites, or shared resources.
• Strong knowledge of MRP, production planning, master scheduling, finite capacity, inventory requirements, and manufacturing lead times.
• Experience creating and maintaining production jobs or batches, planning dates, priorities, commitments, status, and notes in a manufacturing ERP.
• Strong ERP and Excel skills with the ability to analyze planning data, reconcile discrepancies, and convert findings into clear actions.
• Ability to evaluate job readiness across materials, BOMs, formulas, routings, specifications, documentation, testing, and manufacturing constraints.
• Strong execution discipline; able to manage multiple deadlines, maintain accurate details, and elevate risks before commitments are missed.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, resolve competing priorities, identify risks early, and drive follow-through without positional authority.
• Strong communication skills; able to present order status, constraints, impacts, owners, due dates, and recovery plans.
• Experience planning bulk and packaging operations with shared resources, campaigns, and quality-release dependencies preferred.
• Experience with SYSPRO or a comparable manufacturing ERP, Power BI, and/or finite scheduling tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Reviews approved customer demand, confirms planning inputs are complete, and translates demand into time-phased production and material requirements.
• Creates production jobs and batches in SYSPRO within 24 hours when complete demand and documentation are available and links each job to the applicable sales order or demand signal.
• Creates, releases, reschedules, closes, or cancels production jobs to the approved plan and verifies quantities, formulas, BOMs, routings, and manufacturing documentation before release.
• Maintains accurate planning dates, priorities, commitments, status, and notes in SYSPRO; updates changes within one business day and documents an owner, action, and resolution date for exceptions.
• Monitors demand through batch creation, release, production, and shipment; identifies missing demand, uncreated batches, aging jobs, past-due orders, and conflicting dates and drives correction.
• Maintains assigned portions of the master production plan, balancing demand, requested dates, capacity, labor, equipment, materials, quality status, lead times, and campaign requirements.
• Completes pre-flight and readiness reviews before release by confirming materials, packaging, BOMs, formulas, routings, specifications, batch records, and quality requirements with functional owners.
• Reviews MRP output and escalates material shortages or readiness gaps within one business day, identifying affected orders, customer impact, actions, owners, and recovery dates.
• Partners with the Operations Scheduling Manager to translate the master plan into a finite, executable schedule and maintains alignment between planning priorities, batch readiness, and detailed production sequencing.
• Maintains short-, mid-, and long-range demand and capacity views; identifies bottlenecks, campaign conflicts, and future constraints and recommends recovery actions.
• Provides Procurement and Inventory Control with time-phased requirements, shortage priorities, required dates, inventory risks, and planning changes.
• Coordinates with Quality, R&D, Master Data, and Document Control to resolve missing specifications, formulas, BOMs, routings, batch records, testing, release, and change-control requirements.
• Prepares for daily and weekly planning reviews with the master plan, batch status, dates, notes, material readiness, risks, and actions current; tracks assigned actions through closure.
• Validates production commitments using current facts and distinguishes executable orders from risks, opportunities, and recovery actions before reporting dates.
• Provides accurate supply, capacity, inventory, shipment, and risk inputs for Latest Estimate, SIOP/S&OP, financial planning, and operating reviews.
• Communicates executable schedules to Operations, realistic completion dates and recovery plans to Customer Service, and capacity, backlog, inventory, and risk to the Supply Chain Planning Manager.
• Follows planning standard work, calendars, escalation routines, and ERP practices; maintains desk procedures and uses root-cause analysis to reduce late releases, inaccurate dates, material-driven downtime, schedule volatility, and past-due orders.

Skills

Demand planning

MRP

Production scheduling

ERP systems

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering

3+ years of production planning experience

FDA-regulated manufacturing experience preferred

Tools

SYSPRO

Power BI

Finite scheduling tools

Job description

CAPTEK in Cerritos, CA seeks a Supply Chain Planner to translate approved demand into executable, time-phased production and material plans across sites. You will drive orders from demand review through release, maintain dates and priorities, escalate risks with recovery actions, and coordinate with Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, and Customer Service to ensure realistic commitments.

This role requires hands-on ERP experience, strong planning discipline, and the ability to balance capacity,