Senior Production Control Planner

Your Job As a Senior Production Control Planner at Molex ADS, you will lead complex production planning activities that align customer demand, material availability, inventory, and manufacturing capacity. You will provide senior-level guidance across the planning process, resolve high-impact constraints, and use data-driven analysis to improve schedule performance, customer delivery, and operational reliability. Our Team You will join the Supply Chain and Manufacturing Planning team, a cross-functional group of demand planners, procurement specialists, and operations partners. The team works closely with Sales, Quality, Engineering, and Plant Operations to balance customer requirements, capacity, inventory, and cost across the business. What You Will Do Lead the development and execution of production schedules for complex product lines, balancing customer priorities, material availability, labor, equipment capacity, and inventory objectives. Analyze customer orders, forecasts, backlog, and demand changes to identify risks and recommend planning priorities or recovery actions. Partner with procurement, warehouse, engineering, quality, and operations teams to resolve material shortages, capacity constraints, and schedule conflicts. Monitor production planning metrics, including on-time delivery, schedule adherence, backlog, inventory, and material availability, and lead root-cause and corrective-action efforts. Provide scenario analysis and recommendations to support resource allocation, lead-time reduction, inventory optimization, and improved throughput. Serve as a subject-matter resource for production control processes, ERP/MRP data integrity, planning parameters, and scheduling best practices. Mentor less-experienced planners and help standardize planning processes, reporting, and continuous-improvement practices across the team. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field. 5+ years of experience in production planning, production control, material requirements planning (MRP), inventory control, or a related manufacturing planning function. Advanced proficiency with ERP/MRP systems, such as Glovia, SAP, or Oracle, and Microsoft Excel for planning, analysis, and reporting. Demonstrated ability to manage complex schedules, assess competing priorities, and drive cross-functional resolution of material or capacity constraints. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into clear recommendations and executable action plans. Effective communication and influencing skills, including the ability to guide stakeholders and lead initiatives without direct authority. What Will Put You Ahead APICS CPIM or CSCP certification. Experience leading planning improvements, ERP/MRP optimization, or cross-functional scheduling initiatives. Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or structured problem-solving methodologies. Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, Power Query, macros, or VBA, and experience with Power BI or Tableau. Production planning experience in aerospace and defense, electronics, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment. Working knowledge of advanced planning and scheduling tools or capacity-planning methodologies. For this role, we anticipate paying $85,000 - $105,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of …

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