POSITION PURPOSE
This role is responsible for developing and executing medium and long term demand and capacity planning processes across the Americas region which includes covers four manufacturing plants. This role reports directly to the Regional Vice President, Operations and serves as a key liaison between Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Plant Operations, and HR.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the regional Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process and capacity planning activities.
- Translating demand forecasts into medium and long term production plans to ensure operational alignment. Each plant has a production planner that plans the weekly, daily, and shift loads by work center in that specific plant.
- Providing analysis and recommendations that inform the annual budget and long-term strategy.
- Supporting decision-making in a low-volume, high-mix manufacturing environment.
This position requires strong analytical skills, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to manage complex planning challenges in a global capital goods manufacturing business across four manufacturing sites.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Capacity & Factory Loading
- Analyze actual orders and forecasted demand to determine optimal factory allocation across 4 plants (considering lead-time, capability, cost, and capacity).
- Create and maintain a rolling 12–24 month capacity outlook by product family, value stream, and work center.
Requirements Forecasting
- Develop forward-looking requirements for:
- Equipment & tooling: specific machine types, takt-time assumptions, changeover/time loss, utilization targets.
- Manufacturing floor space: bays/cells, material flow, buffer/kanban sizing.
- Labor & shifts: headcount by skill, shift structure per work area, overtime and temp strategies.
- Supplier spend & capacity: align external capacity with internal plans; highlight risk, ramp, and long-lead items.
SIOP Leadership & Governance
- Lead weekly SIOP cadence: demand review, supply/capacity review, executive alignment; publish gap-to-plan and mitigation actions.
- Facilitate monthly capacity reviews with the Regional Vice President Operations and plant leaders; drive decisions on load leveling, outsourcing, and investment.
- Provide inputs to the annual operating budget (CapEx, OpEx, staffing) and annual strategic plan (capacity expansions, footprint, automation).
Cross-Functional Engagement
- Sales: validate demand signals, program launches, customer priorities.
- SCM: confirm supplier capacity, lead times, risk, and cost impacts.
- Manufacturing Engineering: define equipment/process requirements and routings.
- Plant & HR Managers: plan staffing, shifts, training/skill ramp, and hiring timelines.
Analytics & Tools
- Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and Excel models (scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, constraints modeling).
- Use ERP/MRP (SAP preferred) for master data, routings, BOMs, and capacity buckets; improve data quality where needed.
- Drive standard work for capacity planning across plants; document assumptions, decisions, and KPI ownership.
Success Measures (KPIs)
- Factory load adherence (% orders produced at planned site)
- On-time delivery (OTD) vs committed dates
- Capacity accuracy (forecast vs actual at 4/8/12-week horizons)
- Labor and equipment utilization vs targets
- SIOP schedule adherence and decision closure rate
- Supplier capacity alignment and long-lead hit rate
- Budget accuracy for CapEx, staffing, and supplier spend
NATURE AND SCOPE
This role is part of the Americas Operations Team supporting four manufacturing sites. This will be an individual contributor role with heavy cross-functional partners. Reports directly to the Regional Vice President, Operations.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain/Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Analytics, or related field.
- Minimum 7 years in capacity planning, SIOP, production planning, or operations within capital equipment / low-volume, high-mix environments.
- Proven experience allocating production across multiple plants/sites.
- Strong cross-functional leadership with dotted-line influence; comfortable leading meetings and driving decisions without direct authority.
- Expert-level Excel (Power Query, advanced formulas, scenario modeling) and Power BI (data modeling, DAX, visualization).
- Experience with SAP (PP/MM modules) strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with routings, work centers, takt/cycle time, changeover modeling, and constraint-based planning.
- Systems thinker with strong quantitative skills and business judgment.
- Exceptional communication—able to translate complex analyses into clear recommendations.
- Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-paced environments; bias for action and follow-through.
- Detail-oriented, with robust data hygiene and assumption tracking.
- Collaborative, credible, and respectful with plant teams and corporate leaders alike.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. While performing this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk up to 40% of the time. This position requires occasional lifting to twenty pounds and travel both domestic and internationally up to 25% of the time.
BAC Hiring Compensation Range $133,300 to $228,600
BAC offers a comprehensive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401k, employee stock ownership plan, and more. Please see additional details on the BAC website at www.Baltimoreaircoil.com.
BAC Employees are eligible to participate in an annual bonus incentive program.
