Planning and Scheduling Manager

Planning & Scheduling Manager

The Planning & Scheduling Manager is responsible for leading production planning and scheduling execution across multiple manufacturing sites. This role owns the integrity of the master schedule, drives MRP alignment, and ensures material and capacity plans support on time delivery.

This position operates as a control tower for planning and scheduling activities, coordinating across Production, Warehouse, Project Management, Purchasing, Engineering, and Configuration Control to ensure accurate demand signals, executable schedules, and material readiness.

The role leads the planning and scheduling team and is accountable for standardizing processes, improving system utilization, and driving proactive planning versus reactive execution.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the planning and scheduling team across multiple sites
• Oversee staffing, performance management, training, and development
• Establish standardized processes across all sites to drive consistency and scalability
• Drive accountability for schedule adherence, MRP accuracy, and execution discipline
• Own the Master Production Schedule (MPS) across all sites, ensuring it is capacity-aligned and executable
• Ensure schedules are proactively managed based on labor, capacity, and material constraints
• Align production schedules with project timelines and delivery commitments provided by Project Management, Engineering and operations
• Eliminate reactive scheduling by enforcing structured planning processes and system-driven execution
• Coordinate with Production to ensure alignment between system schedules and shop floor execution
• Serve as the functional owner of MRP within the ERP system, ensuring demand signals are valid and actionable
• Drive continuous improvement of ERP/MRP processes, parameters, and data accuracy
• Partner with Purchasing and Configuration Control to ensure alignment between MRP outputs and procurement execution
• Validate system outputs against real world constraints including material availability, warehouse capacity, and project requirements
• Work closely with Production, Warehouse, Project Management, Engineering, Purchasing, and Configuration Control to ensure alignment of demand, BOMs, schedules, and priorities
• Act as the central point of coordination for schedule changes, material constraints, and execution risks
• Ensure project priorities are accurately reflected in production schedules and material planning
• Drive communication across departments to ensure priorities are clear, consistent, and executable
• Ensure material availability aligns with production schedules across all sites
• Coordinate with Warehouse to ensure inventory accuracy, material staging, and timely material movement to support production
• Partner with Project Management to identify and mitigate risks to project timelines driven by material or scheduling constraints
• Monitor shortages and drive proactive resolutions to prevent production and project delays
• Track and report key metrics including schedule adherence, material readiness, and on time delivery to project milestones
• Identify gaps in planning, scheduling, warehouse coordination, and execution processes and implement corrective actions
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce delays, and improve system utilization
• Support execution during peak workloads or critical shortages as needed
• Provide escalation support for site level planning, scheduling, warehouse, and project related issues
• Any other duties assigned by TAS

Job Skills:

• Advanced knowledge of ERP/MRP systems and P6
• Strong understanding of production scheduling, capacity planning, and material planning
• Strong understanding of warehouse operations and material flow
• Ability to translate project demand into executable production plans
• Strong leadership and team development capabilities
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities across multiple sites
• High level of accountability and ownership
• Extensive Excel capabilities and understanding of in-depth formulas
• Strong analytical skills.
• Power BI utilization and coding experience to build out queries

Education & Training:

• Bachelor of Science or technical degree from an accredited university
• Extensive industry or military experience may be considered in lieu of a degree

Minimum Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in production planning and/or scheduling in an engineer-to-order environment
• 3-5+ years of leadership experience
• Strong MRP/ERP system experience as a key user
• Experience managing planning and scheduling in a multi-site manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of fabrication, warehouse operations, and material flow

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with Infor LN
• Experience implementing or managing MPS-driven scheduling environments
• Experience driving process standardization across multiple locations

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

Position is at least 75% to 90% at a desk working with computer. Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing and performing repetitive motions. Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal and conduct extensive reading. The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions.

Company Overview:

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.

TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customers' facilities.

TAS' fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery.

With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals. More information is available on the company website at:

Important Notice: TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. "smoking" and "tobacco or nicotine products" includes, but is not limited to, product such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes

The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.

Applications and resumes will be kept on file for a limited time and that the Company is under no duty or obligation to contact applicants if they are not selected for the job applied for or if other jobs become available in the future. Applicants that desire to apply for a job that becomes available at the Company in the future, should submit a new employment application or resume.

TAS Energy Inc. guarantees equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.