Production Planner
Novanta
Bedford, Massachusetts
Full-Time
Competitive
OfficeExecutive
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Summary
The Production Planner for Precision Manufacturing coordinates production to ensure timely and efficient product delivery by managing schedules, inventory, and cross-functional communication. This role partners with Customer Care, Sales, Product Management, and Operations to develop production plans that align with customer demand and business priorities, while serving as the subject matter expert for Oracle MRP to drive planning accuracy and efficiency.
The Production Planner evaluates factors such as raw material availability, production capacity, and standard lead times to maintain on-time delivery and respond to changing business needs. Acting as the interface to Sales, this role translates SIOP forecasts into actionable production schedules and collaborates with Buyers to optimize inventory levels, support just-in-time material flow, and reduce inefficiencies such as excess changeovers.
About the team:
Precision Manufacturing produces high-precision components for Novanta’s automation technologies, supporting medical, industrial, and robotics applications. The team focuses on tight-tolerance machining, process control, and quality, partnering with engineering and supply chain to ensure manufacturability, scalability, and on-time delivery while driving continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Responsible for complex fulfillment and production plans participates in system or process improvement initiatives to ensure the function has the best tools
Review and revise production and fulfillment plan as required by changes in the manufacturing schedules
Act as a liaison between Manufacturing, Customer Care, Sales and
Product Management, communicating and troubleshooting issues, problems, and concerns
Analyzes production plans and inventory reports, availability / requirements for long lead time items to provide production guidance to the manufacturing sites.
Assist in the expediting finished goods, when necessary, to support customer order fulfillment
Recommend and implement production and transportation actions when products are in out-of-stock or allocation situations.
Partners with management/departments on matters related to production or fulfillment planning.
Utilize Oracle to view material movements, quantities on order, and the current balance on hand to ensure materials needed by the manufacturing plants are available and use this information to analyze trends and plan for future orders.
Must maintain a well-balanced focus between external and internal customer requirements and possesses
Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies
Bachelor’s Degree in an analytical field
3+ years’ experience in manufacturing, production management or production planning
American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) certification (preferred)
Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) (preferred
Knowledge of and experience in Oracle, planning, production scheduling, and shipping functionality and processes
Knowledge of and experience in the master data (such as BOMs Routings, Item Master Attributes, etc.) that drives the forecasting, planning, production scheduling, and shipping functionality in Oracle
Knowledge of and experience in inventory management principles
Knowledge of and experience in production scheduling principles
Knowledge of and experience in mathematics and statistical data
Salary
The salary for this role will range from 70,180 USD to 91,300 USD annual based on full-time employment. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to location, relevant skills, training, experience, education, etc.
Certain roles may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives. Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
Novanta supports all aspects of your life’s needs. This position provides a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits to make your quality of life better.
Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
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