Planning Supervisor

Your Job

As a Planning Supervisor, you will lead production and material planning activities to ensure customer demand is translated into feasible and executable plans. You will optimize production capacity, material availability, inventory, and delivery performance while developing the planning team and driving continuous improvement across planning processes.

Our Team

You will be part of the DSS Supply Planning team, reporting to the Supply Planning Manager and supervising Plant Planners. The team works closely with Customer Service Planning, Operations, Warehouse, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and Global Supply Planning to connect medium-term supply plans with short-term production execution

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop Production Planners and Material Planners, strengthening team capabilities, accountability, and planning effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain the Master Production Schedule by balancing customer demand, production capacity, material availability, inventory objectives, and operational constraints.
• Translate demand and supply requirements into feasible production and material plans that support customer delivery commitments.
• Identify capacity, material, labor, equipment, and manufacturing constraints, and develop practical mitigation and recovery plans.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain teams to monitor plan execution, manage production changes, and minimize supply or delivery risks.
• Collaborate with Customer Service Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and other functions to resolve planning issues and support business priorities.
• Improve planning processes, master-data accuracy, reporting, and ways of working to strengthen operational performance and decision-making.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• University degree in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Experience in production scheduling, capacity planning, constraint management, and manufacturing execution within a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of Master Production Scheduling, BOMs, routings, work-center capacity, run rates, lead times, production orders, and manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, or developing a planning team.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and SAP or another ERP planning system, with good spoken and written English.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Degree specializing in Supply Chain Management or a closely related discipline.
• Experience conducting capacity-gap analysis and developing mitigation plans for material, capacity, or production constraints.
• Experience using APS, Siemens Opcenter, Kinaxis RapidResponse, Power BI, or similar planning and analytical tools.
• Experience improving planning processes, planning master data, reporting, or decision-making through automation and data analysis.
• Strong stakeholder-management experience in a cross-functional manufacturing environment.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

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