Operations Planning Manager (Manufacturing)

Location: Belvidere, Illinois, United States

Company

hirify.global is hiring for an operations planning role supporting a high-volume manufacturing operation.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules for a high-volume operation with thousands of SKUs.
• Balance customer demand, forecasts, inventory targets, production capacity, labor availability, and material constraints.
• Sequence production orders to minimize changeovers, downtime, scrap, and other inefficiencies.
• Monitor schedule adherence and adjust plans in response to equipment issues, material shortages, labor constraints, and priority changes.
• Release and manage work orders through ERP/MRP systems while maintaining accurate planning data.
• Coordinate with Production, Customer Service, Sales, Procurement, and management on schedules, shortages, delivery expectations, and planning reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business, Industrial Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• 3–7 years of experience in production scheduling, production planning, supply chain, or manufacturing operations.
• Experience in a high-SKU manufacturing environment is required.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar.
• Ability to analyze demand patterns, production performance, capacity utilization, inventory trends, and planning KPIs.

Nice to have

• Experience serving retail, consumer products, packaging, filtration, food, household goods, or similar industries.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Equal employment opportunity regardless of legally protected characteristics.