Production Planning Manager

About Us:

Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, OH to serve manufacturing industries with the design and build of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Our business has sufficiently grown over the years to support expansion for our clients. We have produced control packages for many of America's top corporations in the chemical, environmental, food, pulp and paper, rubber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, glass, metals, and utilities industries. We also deliver equipment for use worldwide. Our rigorous methodology assures compliance with domestic and international standards. We can meet the needs of our diverse clientele from start to finish through sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery.

Since 1957, we have been known for our high-quality, custom-built control packages, our comprehensive service, and our technological and manufacturing expertise. This expertise assures you of our ability to handle the largest and most complex packages quickly and efficiently.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Production Planning Manager to lead GrayWolf Modular's master scheduling and production planning unction across a fast-moving engineered-to-order manufacturing environment. This role will translate backlog, engineering release, material availability, labor capacity, and customer commitments into a controlled factory execution plan. The Production Planning Manager will create the planning discipline that aligns engineering, supply chain, warehouse, production, and project teams around one visible operating plan.

Requirements

• Own the master production schedule and planning rhythm that turns booked work into realistic factory execution.
• Translate customer commitments, engineering release dates, long-lead buys, and labor capacity into a visible and controlled plan.
• Drive work-order release, shortage management, kitting readiness, and sequencing discipline across the factory.
• Build planning dashboards and KPIs around schedule adherence, open shortages, WIP age, constraint visibility, and output forecast.
• Lead recovery planning when material, engineering, or labor issues threaten key milestones.
• Partner tightly with warehouse, supply chain, production, and project management so priorities stay aligned.
• Improve MRP / ERP transaction discipline that supports clean planning signals and realistic promise dates.
• Support continuous improvement of GrayWolf's overall planning, production-control, and execution system.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of production planning, master scheduling, production control, or materials-planning leadership experience in manufacturing, modular construction, or engineered-to-order environments.
• Hands-on success translating backlog, engineering release, material availability, and labor constraints into executable factory schedules.
• Strong MRP / ERP discipline with experience driving work-order release, shortage visibility, and schedule recovery planning.
• Ability to align engineering, supply chain, warehouse, and production around one operating plan.
• Proficiency with ERP / MRP systems, Excel, dashboard reporting tools, and planning systems; experience with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with modular data center products, power equipment, cooling systems, skids, or other high-mix industrial assemblies.
• Lean or continuous-improvement mindset.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, term life, AD&D, STD, LTD
• 100% medical premium paid for by Panelmatic for the employee-only level medical coverage
• 80% paid for by Panelmatic and 20% paid for by the employee on all other level medical coverage (i.e.