Capacity Planner - SIOP
Capacity Planner (S&OP / Integrated Business Planning)
About the Opportunity
A rapidly growing manufacturing organization is seeking a newly created Capacity Planner to support its Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. This individual will play a critical role in balancing customer demand with manufacturing capabilities, ensuring production, labor, inventory, and capacity plans align with business objectives and growth initiatives across a dynamic multi-site network.
This position offers significant cross-functional exposure and the opportunity to influence operational performance, service levels, and long-term capacity strategy across multiple manufacturing sites.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain capacity plans to support the S&OP process across manufacturing operations.
- Align demand forecasts with production capacity, labor availability, equipment constraints, and inventory strategies.
- Analyze supply and demand gaps and identify both short-term and long-term capacity constraints.
- Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Sales, and Planning teams to create executable production plans.
- Lead capacity reviews and provide recommendations to address risks, constraints, and growth opportunities.
- Model production and demand scenarios to evaluate impacts on capacity, inventory, customer service, and cost.
- Coordinate production allocation across multiple facilities to maximize utilization and meet customer requirements.
- Monitor key performance metrics including capacity utilization, forecast accuracy, inventory levels, production attainment, and on-time delivery.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and recommend solutions involving labor, inventory, production transfers, or capital investments.
- Support new product launches, growth initiatives, and network optimization projects.
- Develop reporting tools and dashboards that provide visibility into capacity risks and resource requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning accuracy and operational effectiveness.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in capacity planning, production planning, manufacturing planning, scheduling, or related supply chain functions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Advanced Excel skills, including data analysis and modeling.
- Experience working within ERP/MRP systems.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Preferred Background
Candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply:
- Capacity Planning
- S&OP / Integrated Business Planning
- Production Planning & Scheduling
- Manufacturing Operations
- Demand Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Analytics
- ERP/MRP Systems
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean Manufacturing
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