Production Planner

Position Summary

Responsible for coordinating and scheduling the operation of cutting, processing, and fabrication equipment to meet customer specifications and delivery timelines. Their duties include reviewing work orders, selecting appropriate machines and tooling, optimizing production sequences for efficiency, and ensuring compliance with strict aerospace quality standards. They work closely with production teams to minimize downtime, manage material flow, and maintain accurate records of machine usage and output. Additionally, they play a key role in balancing capacity planning with urgent customer requirements, ensuring precision and reliability in every step of the process.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lay out material on machines to ensure all sales order requirements are met
• Schedule all workload for designated area.
• Lay out, monitor, and finalize all outside processing job sets as required.
• Monitor/maintain required contract account stock levels.
• Assist to ensure Quality Control receives information regarding “positive recall” orders.
• Assist to ensure Quality Control receives samples as required for testing.
• Work with the sales department regarding the status of sales orders.
• Maintain Order Changes folder
• Work closely with the shop floor personnel to resolve paperwork and material issues.
• Create stock transfer orders as needed.
• Finalize MP’s or assist shop floor personnel as needed.
• Back-up shipment lists for contract, and large-volume customers.
• Perform all additional duties as requested by manager.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job requires no supervision of direct reports.

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Requires related experience, and skill and proficiency in a semi-professional occupation, or a specialized operations function. May require further or on-going vocational training as needed.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office software and Employer Resource Planning tools
• Familiar with office and warehouse environments

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals in English.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.  Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

None Required

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and 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 accommodations 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 moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Ethics/Compliance/Safety

• Maintain a working environment that embodies the UPM and ONI Code of Conduct and Ethics policy.
• Actively contributes to the achievement of the Company’s goals for safety, security, compliance to company policies and procedures, OSHA Compliance, EPA Compliance, and Housekeeping 5S/Lean Culture.
• Full Compliance to all Safety Policies and Procedures while promoting a culture of safety awareness