Senior Production Planner
Location: Martin-Baker America - Johnstown PA
Martin-Baker America is seeking a highly skilled Senior Production Planner to join our team. This role is a key contributor to production planning responsible for the development scheduling and monitoring of material movement throughout the production cycle. The successful candidate will ensure efficiency accuracy and alignment with organizational goals while serving as a subject matter expert in planning and inventory management.
The Senior Production Planner plays a critical role within Integrated Product Teams (IPT) building strong working relationships and fostering effective communication with fellow IPT members manufacturing personnel and cross-functional departments. This position requires the ability to coordinate workflows across multiple products define equipment raw material and labor needs and establish timelines for order completion. The planner will identify priority products and operations to optimize workflows analyze production output data to drive efficiency and support configuration control processes by collaborating with engineering and other business streams.
Strong communication skills are essential as the planner must accurately convey information to supervisors leads and production line employees while responding quickly to requests for reports and data derived from the companys MRP system. Technical expertise in production planning scheduling and inventory control techniques is required along with the ability to interpret complex product drawings specifications and manufacturing processes.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate independence in managing activities the ability to resolve conflicting requirements through coordination with product line teams and a commitment to teamwork across all levels of the organization. Accuracy diligence and a proactive approach to problem-solving are critical to success in this role.
Qualifications: A bachelors degree in business operations manufacturing engineering or a related field is required. ASCM (APICS) certification in Planning and Inventory Management is strongly desired. Preferred qualifications include SAP experience inventory policy development prior experience with government orders and production requirements and exposure to continuous improvement cultures such as 6S and Lean concepts.
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
MBAI is a government contractor and provides priority consideration to veterans.
Successful candidates will be required to complete a Background Check and Drug Screening
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