Senior Production Planner – ABB Emergency Lighting

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner, and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to the Planning & Fulfillment Manager.

In This Role

You will generate a detailed production schedule based on the production plan to maximize resource use and meet production specifications and schedules. Daily responsibilities include:

• Feeding information on production capacity issues and material availability.
• Releasing manufacturing work orders.

Our team fosters collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Everyone contributes uniquely, and progress here creates real-world impact.

The Impact You’ll Create

Bring your full self to work—intellect, energy, and ambition—in an environment where your contributions make a measurable difference. Here, your skills shape the future, and your ideas drive change.

Work Model: Hybrid

Your Role & Responsibilities

As a Senior Production Planner, you’ll ensure operational excellence by:

• Creating and maintaining detailed production schedules to optimize resource allocation and meet delivery deadlines.
• Releasing manufacturing work orders and executing daily plant-level MRP to support production needs.
• Defining operation sequences and lead times, aligning with the master production schedule.
• Monitoring schedule adherence, identifying root causes of deviations, and driving corrective actions.
• Defining and maintaining inventory parameters in the ERP system; collaborating with Buyers to improve supplier performance.
• Aligning inbound material planning, call-offs, requisitions, and purchasing orders with Operations and GBS.
• Analyzing excess, obsolete, and aging inventory, proposing cross-functional optimizations.
• Conducting planning & fulfillment analysis and providing performance reports to business leaders.