Intergration Planner

Description

Job Summary

The Integration Planner is a high-impact individual contributor responsible for converting customer demand, project requirements, deployment schedules, and operational priorities into executable production plans. This position serves as the central planning connection between Project Management, Sales, Operations, Integration, Logistics, and Operations leadership. The Integration Planner provides forward-looking visibility to workload, establishes production priorities, develops capacity and labor plans, and helps ensure Integration Operations is positioned to meet required completion and deployment dates. This is not simply a scheduling or administrative role. The successful candidate will understand how work moves through the operation, anticipate constraints, identify execution risks before they affect production, and give leaders the information needed to make informed staffing, scheduling, and prioritization decisions.

Reporting Relationships

• Reports to: Director of Operations
• Non-supervisory position/Supervisory position 

Primary Job Responsibilities

Production Planning & Scheduling: Responsible for developing, maintaining, and updating short- and long-term production schedules aligned with customer demand, deployment dates, and operational priorities. This role translates project forecasts into actionable plans, balances workloads across shifts and workstations, and establishes clear priorities in coordination with Integration and Operations leadership. When deviations or delays occur, the role develops recovery plans, adjusts schedules in real time, and maintains transparent communication and pipeline visibility.

Production Capacity & Labor Planning: Focuses on assessing available operational capacity by evaluating labor, equipment, operating hours, and historical throughput. The position forecasts labor and capacity requirements, identifies potential resource gaps, and recommends adjustments such as shift modifications, overtime, or staffing changes. Additionally, it evaluates the operational impact of new programs and continuously refines capacity assumptions using actual performance metrics.

Work Intake & Prioritization: Oversees end-to-end tracking of incoming work from initial project planning to full production readiness. By reviewing target completion dates and resource constraints, this role establishes logical production sequences, resolves conflicting priorities, and escalates unresolvable capacity bottlenecks. Complete operational visibility is maintained across all stages of work, including planned, ready, in-progress, at-risk, and completed status.

Customer Onboarding & Production Trials: Partners with cross-functional teams—including Project Management, Engineering, Logistics, and Operations—to onboard new accounts, define operational parameters, and align on production expectations prior to launch. The role participates in trials and proof-of-concept activities, analyzing metrics such as cycle times, labor needs, and quality performance to convert trial data into scalable schedules, capacity plans, and standard procedures. Early production runs are closely monitored to refine planning models as actual throughput data is established.

Production Readiness: Serves as a gatekeeper to ensure all planned work satisfies essential execution prerequisites before scheduling begins. This involves auditing material availability, configuration specifications, work instructions, tooling, and labor readiness, while actively coordinating with cross-functional teams to resolve pre-production gaps and escalate unaddressed schedule risks.

Production Performance & Process Discipline: Monitors key operational performance metrics, including schedule attainment, throughput, cycle times, labor utilization, and backlog levels to identify and address systemic causes of delay. By continually updating systems with accurate planning parameters and standardized workflows, this role leverages historical performance data to enhance future capacity models, staffing frameworks, and schedule accuracy, while delivering routine executive reports on workload, risks, and operational performance.

Requirements

Job Competencies, Skills & Experience

Education & Work History: High School Diploma / GED paired with 5+ years of experience in production planning, manufacturing, integration, distribution operations, logistics, or a related operational environment (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).

Proven Track Record: Demonstrated hands-on experience in the end-to-end development, implementation, and ongoing management of production schedules within high-volume or dynamic operational settings.

Core Competencies

• Planning & Execution: Production Planning, Production Scheduling, Capacity Planning, Labor Planning, Workload Prioritization, Production Readiness
• Operations & Analysis: Customer Onboarding, Trial & Production Analysis, Throughput Analysis, Schedule Attainment, Data Analysis & Reporting, Operational Risk Identification, Continuous Improvement
• Collaboration: Cross-Functional Coordination

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Systems & Tools: Proficiency with ERP systems, production-scheduling software, operational-planning systems, and advanced Excel for data analysis and operational reporting.
• Operational Intelligence: Ability to analyze complex production data and translate raw findings into actionable operating plans, capacity models, and refined scheduling parameters.

Professional Skills & Traits

• Prioritization & Multi-Tasking: Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customer programs, complex schedules, and competing operational priorities simultaneously.
• Problem-Solving & Organization: Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying capacity constraints and mitigating production risks.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to present clear production risks to leadership and work effectively across frontline Operations, Project Management, and customer-facing teams.

Environment and Normal Working Conditions 

Office/Warehouse environment. Core business hours are generally 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. Position may require work to be performed outside of normal business hours based on Company operations. 

Physical Requirements

The position requires the physical ability to work in a warehouse environment, including prolonged standing, walking, sitting, reaching, bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, and twisting. The employee must be able to frequently use hands and fingers for computer operation, hardware installation, device setup, testing, cable connections, and packaging.

The employee must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds without assistance and safely push, pull, and move equipment and materials as required for staging, order fulfillment, shipping, and facility organization. The position also requires sufficient vision, hearing, and communication skills to inspect equipment, perform quality testing, read labels and screens, and communicate with coworkers. 

DecisionPoint Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.