Production Planner

Job Opportunity

We're looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

What You Will Experience In This Position:

• Develop weekly production requirements for manufacturing operations with daily detail as the need arises by production scheduling process.
• Conducts weekly scheduling meeting to review previous production performance and to gain plant alignment around future production requirements.
• Communicates schedule changes, maintenance requirements, shut downs, and training needs that effect future production plans to corporate planning and logistics.
• Develop and communicate daily production plans to all departments and keeps staff informed of any changes or updates as needed.
• Develop daily and weekly actual versus scheduled communication and performance reporting.
• Coordinates the initial production requirements for new products with QA and corporate R&D.
• Analyze and review the manufacturing schedule and communicate opportunities to improve the balance of cost and service among raw materials, conversion, and finished good costs.
• Development of concepts for the optimization of tools, operating resources and production processes.
• Develop daily production plans that optimally lead labor and enable plant efficiency targets to be achieved.

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field is preferred.
• 3+ years of manufacturing, planning and/or scheduling experience preferred.
• Proficient in MRP, Epicor and/or SyteLine are a plus.
• Statistical and spreadsheet analytical skills.
• Proficiency with Excel and Access.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing, distribution, and customer service.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong service-minded attitude with a hunger, drive and tenacity to own and improve processes.

We Have:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

    Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We're known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

  At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.

  • A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan both include a company match.

  • Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

  At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.