Senior Manager Production Planning

Job Title: Senior Manager Production Planning

Department: Operations

Reports To: Director of Operations

Summary

The Senior Manager Production Planning leads the production planning and supply chain functions. This role is responsible for ensuring the on-time, compliant delivery of high-quality products while optimizing inventory, capacity, and resource utilization. The position drives the design, execution, and continuous improvement of business processes and systems that support manufacturing operations. Acting as a key cross-functional liaison, the Senior Manager leads Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system enhancements and strategic initiatives for manufacturing. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Master Production Schedule (MPS) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), lean manufacturing, and ISO compliance, along with strong leadership to promote scalability, operational excellence, and ongoing process improvement.

The successful candidate will be able to provide examples of success in the following areas:

Exceptional Leadership: Provide strong people & team leadership skills to develop talent across a multi-site team. This key responsibility will include but not be limited to recruiting, mentoring, skill development & evaluation, internal training, talent management and ability to build effective teams.

Growth mindset.  An action-oriented optimist grounded in reality, that finds joy in developing themselves, teams, colleagues, and the business through dedication and hard work.

Critical Thinking.  The ability to rapidly assess situations to build an understanding of strengths and weaknesses associated with existing business and operating models within a complex, dynamic environment, then engage and collaborate with others to inform and influence strategic decisions.

Diverse perspective.  Professional experiences that can translate to working effectively with teams from different divisions, functions and geographies to developing strategies.

Proactive amidst ambiguity.  A track record of driving business impact through creative solutions even when certain elements are complex or ambiguous.

Job Duties

Lead and manage a diverse team made of Supply Chain professionals and Industrial Engineers.

Manage multiple, complex projects by establishing key metrics and standardized processes to measure performance and drive efficiencies.

Develop and maintain a demand-driven Master Production Schedule (MPS) aligned with sales forecasts, customer orders, and new product introductions.

Establishes process to continually audit and refine planning processes where deficiencies or opportunities for continuous improvement exist

Coordinate and facilitate daily, weekly, and monthly meetings to ensure plan execution.

Translates the monthly S&OP strategy into weekly, executable tasks.

Addresses short-term issues like delayed shipments, material shortages, or urgent customer needs.

Gets sales, operations, finance, and other teams to agree on immediate actions.

Drills down from product families (S&OP) to specific SKUs, customer orders, and production lines.

Focuses on deviations from the plan and managing trade-offs.

Serve as Subject Matter Expert and functional lead for ERP systems supporting manufacturing operations.

Oversee demand management process to safeguard ability to meet production schedule and meet on-time delivery

Develop and implement manufacturing supply processes and ERP system enhancements.

Design and maintain auditing, tracking, and reporting tools for master planning data accuracy.

Evaluate deployed solutions for effectiveness and recommend modifications.

Define roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and performance metrics for projects.

Act as a visionary leader to develop scalable and innovative business processes.

Must love guns.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Manages Supply Chain team and Industrial Engineer.

QUALIFICATIONS 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EXPORT CONTROL REQUIREMENTS

This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

EXPORT CONTROL DETAILS

US based job, US Person required

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university in Supply Chain, Business, Information Systems, or related field; and three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Minimum of 5-7 years of operations/production planning experience.

Minimum of 5 years in process mapping, documentation, and end-user training.

Minimum of 5 years of direct people management experience.

Strong understanding of ERP systems (planning, purchasing, production, inventory, distribution).

Solid knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and change management.

Development of Portfolio Strategy and Product Line expansion with key OEM/Supplier Partners.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.  Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups and/or board of directors.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook, Visio, PDM, Syspro, in-house Quality Data Base, Solid Edge Viewer, Solid Works Viewer.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires the incumbent to stand, walk, sit, talk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee may occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job are close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts and slight risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate in a manufacturing environment.

Employment with B.E. Meyers & Co. is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, Veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.