# Production Planner

The Production Planner is responsible for planning and coordinating production activities based on customer demand and forecast requirements. This role manages work orders, develops production and machine schedules, monitors inventory levels, supports capacity planning, and maintains production-related reports to ensure efficient manufacturing operations. This position also serves as the primary backup to the Production Scheduler. What You’ll Do: Review Material Requirements Planning (MRP) reports and generate production work orders based on customer orders and forecast requirements, maintaining accurate quantities and due dates. Develop and maintain machine schedules to minimize setups, optimize production efficiency, and balance inventory levels. Manage work orders involving customer-supplied materials. Prepare capacity planning reports to identify production bottlenecks, capacity constraints, and outsourcing requirements. Serve as a customer service contact for order expediting, material availability, and production schedule updates. Maintain production-related reports, including scrap reports and production hot lists, and facilitate daily production meetings. Oversee the cycle

- **Id**: 4275187
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/avalign-technologies-production-planner>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Fort Wayne, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T05:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T18:46:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1909
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Orthopedic & Spine Implants, Medical Supplies & Consumables

## Company

- **Id**: 3787056
- **Name**: Avalign Technologies
- **Domain**: avalign.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/avalign>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: associate
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T18:46:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T23:06:37Z

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