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That's what we're building.\nAs we continue to scale, we're looking for a highly organized, analytical Production Planner who thrives in fast-paced manufacturing environments and enjoys solving complex scheduling challenges.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nOwn the production schedule across multiple manufacturing work centers, balancing customer priorities, material availability, machine capacity, and labor resources. \nTranslate customer demand, sales forecasts, engineering release schedules, and new program launches into executable production plans. \nContinuously evaluate production capacity, staffing levels, machine utilization, and bottlenecks to optimize factory throughput. \nPartner closely with Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Production, and Quality to ensure customer commitments remain achievable. \nPrioritize work orders based on customer demand, due dates, manufacturing constraints, and changing business priorities. \nDevelop short-, medium-, and long-range production plans while adjusting schedules in real time as priorities shift. \nMonitor work-in-process (WIP) throughout the factory and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts that could impact delivery. \nCoordinate production sequencing across composite layup, curing, machining, additive manufacturing, inspection, finishing, and assembly operations. \nAnalyze demand trends, backlog, forecasted orders, and pipeline opportunities to ensure the factory is appropriately staffed and prepared for future workload. \nDrive production planning meetings and communicate schedule updates, risks, and recovery plans to cross-functional stakeholders. \nIdentify opportunities to improve planning processes, scheduling accuracy, inventory flow, and manufacturing efficiency. \nUtilize ERP/MRP, MES, and production planning tools to maintain accurate schedules, production status, and reporting. \nDevelop production metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into schedule adherence, capacity utilization, on-time delivery, and factory performance. \nWhat We’re Looking for:\n Be awesome! 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