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This role sits at the center of production and is responsible for turning customer demand, material availability, equipment capacity, labor availability, and operational priorities into schedules the manufacturing team can actually execute.\nYou’ll own production planning across batch-oriented and job-shop operations, including raw-material preparation, processing, manufacturing, testing, packaging, warehousing, and shipping. You’ll also manage material requirements, inventory planning, ERP/MRP data, and day-to-day coordination with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Procurement, and Commercial teams.\nThis is not a desk-only planning position. You’ll regularly work directly with supervisors and production teams on the manufacturing floor to understand constraints, adjust priorities, and keep customer commitments on track.\nWe are actively scaling our U.S. manufacturing capabilities, giving this role the opportunity to help build the planning systems, inventory controls, and operating processes needed for higher-volume production.\nWhat Makes This Opportunity Great\n Benefits That Count: 90% paid medical, 6% 401(k) match, four weeks PTO.\nBonus & Stocks: Generous annual bonus and stock grants that significant boost total income\nBuild the System: Help develop planning processes as U.S. production scales.\nAdvanced Manufacturing: Support aerospace, defense, space, and additive manufacturing.\nOwn the Flow: Direct schedules, materials, inventory, warehousing, and shipping priorities.\nCross-Functional Impact: Work directly with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Commercial.\nCompensation\nBase Salary: $80,000-$100,000 annually\nAnnual Bonus: Bonus equal to 25% of base salary\nTarget Cash Compensation: Approximately $100,000-$125,000 including bonus\nStock Grants: 25% of base salary annually during your first four years\nResponsibilities\nProduction Scheduling: Build daily, weekly, and longer-range manufacturing schedules.\nDemand Planning: Translate customer orders and forecasts into executable production plans.\nCapacity Planning: Balance equipment, labor, materials, lead times, and delivery requirements.\nSchedule Recovery: Adjust plans around downtime, shortages, quality holds, and demand changes.\nMaterials Planning: Maintain raw-material, consumable, packaging, and supply requirements.\nPurchasing Coordination: Support procurement of production materials and manufacturing supplies.\nInventory Controls: Set reorder points, safety stock, lot sizes, and inventory targets.\nERP/MRP Management: Maintain work orders, routings, lead times, BOMs, and planning data.\nProduction Coordination: Align priorities with supervisors, Engineering, Quality, and Maintenance.\nWarehouse Planning: Direct priorities across receiving, warehousing, and material movement.\nShipping Coordination: Ensure finished goods, documentation, and packaging meet delivery requirements.\nMaterial Traceability: Maintain lot control, identification, segregation, and manufacturing genealogy.\nPerformance Reporting: Track schedule attainment, throughput, lead time, WIP, and delivery.\nConstraint Management: Identify bottlenecks, shortages, and capacity risks before production is affected.\nContinuous Improvement: Improve scheduling, material flow, inventory controls, and visual management.\nRequirements\nQualifications\nRequired\n3-5 years manufacturing planning or scheduling experience\nExperience managing production schedules and material availability\nWorking knowledge of MRP and production planning\nExperience with manufacturing ERP/MRP systems\nUnderstanding of inventory and capacity planning\nComfortable working regularly on the manufacturing floor\nPreferred\nBachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field preferred\nAerospace, defense, or space manufacturing experience\nBatch or job-shop production planning experience\nAS9100 or ISO 9001 experience\nGlobal Shop Solutions ERP experience\nWarehouse, shipping, or receiving coordination experience\nLean manufacturing, 5S, or root-cause experience","description_format":"text","description_chars":4406,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T14:34:53Z"}],"liveness":{"score":45,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.605,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":46,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:12","velocity","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":100000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/laborup-production-planner","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/laborup-production-planner.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T02:19:07Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2544,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2456,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}