# Production Planner - US

Production Planner Position Summary The Production Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining production schedules that balance customer demand, manufacturing capacity, inventory, and material availability. This role partners with Manufacturing, Customer Service, Purchasing, Engineering, and Supply Chain to ensure on-time delivery while optimizing inventory, improving schedule attainment, and supporting operational excellence. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain production schedules based on customer demand and capacity. Review forecasts, inventory, and material availability to create achievable production plans. Monitor schedule attainment and adjust priorities as business needs change. Coordinate with Purchasing to ensure material availability. Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Customer Service, and Quality to resolve production constraints. Maintain planning data within ERP/MRP systems. Analyze KPIs including on-time delivery, inventory, and schedule adherence. Support Lean and continuous improvement initiatives. Core Competencies Production planning and scheduling ERP/MRP systems Analytical problem solving Advanced Excel Cross-functional communication Cu

- **Id**: 3776952
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/watlow-production-planner-us>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Winona, 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**: 2026-11-04T07:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T10:44:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1428
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sensors & Transducers, Industrial Automation, Semiconductor Equipment, Electrical Equipment & Cables

## Company

- **Id**: 2534531
- **Name**: Watlow
- **Domain**: watlow.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/watlow-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 44
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.227
- **Repost share**: 0.023
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T23:34:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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