Planning Supervisor
Job Description
Your Job
As a Planning Supervisor, you will lead production and material planning activities to ensure customer demand is translated into feasible and executable plans. You will optimize production capacity, material availability, inventory, and delivery performance while developing the planning team and driving continuous improvement across planning processes.
Our Team
You will be part of the DSS Supply Planning team, reporting to the Supply Planning Manager and supervising Plant Planners. The team works closely with Customer Service Planning, Operations, Warehouse, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and Global Supply Planning to connect medium-term supply plans with short-term production execution
What You Will Do
Who We Are
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
As a Planning Supervisor, you will lead production and material planning activities to ensure customer demand is translated into feasible and executable plans. You will optimize production capacity, material availability, inventory, and delivery performance while developing the planning team and driving continuous improvement across planning processes.
Our Team
You will be part of the DSS Supply Planning team, reporting to the Supply Planning Manager and supervising Plant Planners. The team works closely with Customer Service Planning, Operations, Warehouse, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and Global Supply Planning to connect medium-term supply plans with short-term production execution
What You Will Do
- Lead and develop Production Planners and Material Planners, strengthening team capabilities, accountability, and planning effectiveness.
- Develop and maintain the Master Production Schedule by balancing customer demand, production capacity, material availability, inventory objectives, and operational constraints.
- Translate demand and supply requirements into feasible production and material plans that support customer delivery commitments.
- Identify capacity, material, labor, equipment, and manufacturing constraints, and develop practical mitigation and recovery plans.
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain teams to monitor plan execution, manage production changes, and minimize supply or delivery risks.
- Collaborate with Customer Service Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and other functions to resolve planning issues and support business priorities.
- Improve planning processes, master-data accuracy, reporting, and ways of working to strengthen operational performance and decision-making.
- University degree in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Experience in production scheduling, capacity planning, constraint management, and manufacturing execution within a manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of Master Production Scheduling, BOMs, routings, work-center capacity, run rates, lead times, production orders, and manufacturing processes.
- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, or developing a planning team.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and SAP or another ERP planning system, with good spoken and written English.
- Degree specializing in Supply Chain Management or a closely related discipline.
- Experience conducting capacity-gap analysis and developing mitigation plans for material, capacity, or production constraints.
- Experience using APS, Siemens Opcenter, Kinaxis RapidResponse, Power BI, or similar planning and analytical tools.
- Experience improving planning processes, planning master data, reporting, or decision-making through automation and data analysis.
- Strong stakeholder-management experience in a cross-functional manufacturing environment.
Who We Are
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
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Key Skills
Routings
Constraint Management
Manufacturing Execution
Kinaxis RapidResponse
Work-center Capacity
BOMs
Siemens Opcenter
Run Rates
Lead Times
