Senior Planner

Senior Planner

Location: White Bear Lake, MN (100% Onsite)

Compensation: $90,000–$110,000 base salary

Employment Type: Permanent

LHH is partnering with a family‑owned manufacturing company in White Bear Lake, MN that is experiencing significant growth and investing heavily in process improvement, systems, and scalability. This is a rare opportunity to step into a high‑impact planning role where you will build structure, influence operations, and directly shape how work flows through the shop.

This Role in a Nutshell

The Senior Planner will own the master production schedule and be the central point of coordination across engineering, purchasing, and the shop floor. This is a hands‑on, decision‑making role in a custom job shop (ETO environment), not a theoretical planning position.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own and maintain the master production schedule across the entire shop

• Sequence custom, engineered‑to‑order jobs through nine production departments

• Align engineering releases, material availability, and floor priorities

• Identify conflicts early and re‑sequence proactively before issues hit the floor

• Balance capacity, backlog, labor, and real‑time constraints

• Partner daily with the shop foreman, engineers, and purchasing team

• Establish and formalize planning structure where none previously existed

• Play a key role in ERP design, configuration, and rollout, with direct hands‑on involvement

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Technical Skills

• Proven experience in ETO / job shop manufacturing (no templates, no repetitive builds)

• Demonstrated success building or stabilizing a planning function from scratch

• Deep understanding of production sequencing and priority management

• Working knowledge of fabrication, machining, welding, and assembly—enough to push back and make informed decisions

• Comfortable owning decisions when priorities collide

Soft Skills & Mindset

• Thrives in environments with imperfect data and constant change

• Thinks in systems and scalability, not one‑off fixes

• Proactively spots risks and bottlenecks before they become production fires

• Strong collaborator who partners closely with engineering, purchasing, and operations

• Confident, practical, and hands‑on—not afraid to get into the details

• Experienced enough to lead—but with the energy and runway to grow with a fast‑scaling organization

Systems

• Strong interest in, or direct experience with, ERP implementations

• Excited to help shape how planning, scheduling, and data flow through a new system

Culture & Environment

• Proud, family‑owned business with a strong sense of ownership and core values

• Recently doubled in size and continuing to grow

• Actively investing in automation, systems, and process improvement

• Focused on making many small changes that compound over time

• A team‑oriented environment where leaders are visible and collaboration is expected

Why This Role Stands Out

• High visibility and high impact

• Real ownership—not just maintaining a schedule, but designing how planning works

• Direct influence on ERP strategy and operational scalability

• Long‑term opportunity with a growing, values‑driven manufacturing company

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pay Details: $90,000.00 to $110,000.00 per year

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.lhh.com/us/en/candidate-privacy

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Massachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.