NPC Production Planner II (B2) - Austin, TX, United States

Originally posted 15 October 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role involves production planning activities to ensure on-time material delivery and maintain inventory levels within manufacturing and engineering operations.

What you'll do

• Maintain the SAP production order release schedule for on-time material delivery.
• Perform pre-shortage analysis to increase component availability at the time of release.
• Review and ensure accuracy of MRP execution, reconciling supply and demand.
• Manage material affected by engineering change orders and ensure proper disposition of ECOs.
• Work with Finance to resolve Work-In-Process (WIP) issues and audit WIP physical inventory.
• Drive root cause and corrective action for process control issues.

What you'll need

• Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline.
• Knowledge of best known practices in the area and how it integrates with others.
• Ability to act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Solves complex problems using analysis from multiple sources of information.
• Impacts customer, operational, project, or service activities within teams.
• Explains difficult or sensitive information and builds consensus.

Nice to have

• May train lower-level personnel.
• May function as Training Focal, certifying and re-certifying on planning processes.
• Work with NPC manufacturing in Austin to ensure production schedule is followed and coordinated.