# Senior Production Planner

**Company:** [Standard Nuclear](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/standard-nuclear)
**Location:** Oak Ridge, TN
**Role:** Business Operations
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Production Planning, Capacity Planning, Erp/Mrp Systems, Excel, Data Analysis, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Operations, Bottleneck Analysis, Production Scheduling, Cross-Functional Coordination
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Develop and maintain production schedules across multiple facilities, translating project demand and constraints into executable plans while building planning frameworks and capacity models. Requires 5-8 years in production planning or manufacturing operations.

## Job Description

## Production Planning & Scheduling
- Develop and maintain production schedules based on project demand, production readiness, facility capacity, and material availability
- Translate customer, project, and internal priorities into executable production plans
- Build weekly and longer-range production schedules that account for equipment availability, labor, materials, quality requirements, and operational constraints
- Monitor schedule performance and adjust plans as priorities, constraints, or production realities change
- Communicate schedule changes, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to production, project, and leadership teams

## Capacity & Throughput Analysis
- Evaluate production capacity across facilities, equipment, labor, and process steps
- Identify bottlenecks, constraints, and throughput limitations that impact production schedules
- Develop and maintain practical capacity assumptions based on actual production performance and input from technical teams
- Support leadership in understanding what work can realistically be completed based on current resources and constraints
- Refine planning models as production processes mature and new data becomes available

## Planning Framework Development
- Help build the production planning structure, tools, and routines needed to support scalable manufacturing
- Gather required inputs from engineering, production, quality, and supply chain to support schedule development
- Support development of routings, process assumptions, lead times, work sequencing, and planning rules
- Identify gaps in planning data, documentation, or process inputs and work with teams to close them
- Help standardize production planning practices across facilities as operations grow

## Cross-Functional Coordination
- Work closely with production teams to understand current execution status, constraints, and shop-floor realities
- Partner with engineering to understand process requirements, technical readiness, and changes that impact production plans
- Coordinate with supply chain to account for material availability, BOM readiness, long-lead items, and procurement timelines
- Work with quality to ensure inspection, documentation, and release requirements are reflected in production schedules
- Support project teams by providing realistic schedule inputs, production status, and capacity feedback

## Multi-Facility Planning
- Support production planning across multiple Standard Nuclear facilities
- Understand facility-specific capabilities, constraints, equipment availability, and readiness
- Help determine where work should be performed based on capacity, capability, timing, and project needs
- Coordinate handoffs and dependencies between facilities when work requires multiple production steps or locations
- Maintain visibility into competing demands across facilities and support prioritization discussions

## Systems, Data & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain accurate planning data in scheduling, ERP/MRP, or related systems as they are developed
- Use production data to improve planning assumptions, schedule accuracy, and capacity visibility
- Develop reports, trackers, and planning tools to support decision-making
- Identify opportunities to improve production flow, material readiness, schedule adherence, and planning discipline
- Support implementation and improvement of planning systems as the company scales

## Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered
- 5–8 years of experience in production planning, production control, master scheduling, capacity planning, manufacturing operations, or supply chain planning
- Experience developing production schedules in a manufacturing, industrial, technical, or regulated environment
- Strong understanding of production flow, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, routings, lead times, and material readiness
- Experience working in environments where planning systems, BOMs, routings, or production processes are still being built or improved
- Experience working with ERP/MRP, scheduling, or production planning systems
- Strong Excel and data analysis skills; experience building planning tools, trackers, or capacity models preferred
- Ability to gather inputs from engineering, production, supply chain, quality, and project teams and turn them into actionable plans
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain schedule constraints, risks, and tradeoffs clearly
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a changing production environment
- Experience in nuclear, aerospace, defense, energy, chemical processing, advanced manufacturing, or other regulated manufacturing environments is a plus

## Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Disability and Life Insurance
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid Time Off and Holidays

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