Step into this Production Planner role at an award-winning company with over 60 years of industry leadership. You’ll enjoy comprehensive benefits while collaborating across teams, driving strategic production planning decisions, and gaining hands-on experience that expands your skills. With opportunities to cross-train, innovate, and influence the organization at a high level, your career will be as dynamic as the work you do.
Special Products & Manufacturing, an award-winning company with over 60 years of success, is seeking a Production Planner to join their team in Rockwall, TX.
If you have at least 4 years of experience in a production planning, scheduling, or operations management role, you owe it to yourself to check out this opportunity.
Why You Should Join the Special Products & Manufacturing Team:
- Comprehensive Benefits: At SPM, employees enjoy a robust benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plans, wellness programs, and paid time off. Our focus on well-being helps you maintain a healthy work‑life balance while thriving in your career.
- Company stability and growth: Founded in 1963, SPM has more than 60 years of proven success. We continue to grow and innovate, offering employees the chance to be part of a stable, forward‑thinking organization.
- Work for an award-winning company: SPM was recently named Fabricator of the Year (2025) by The Fabricator, a major industry publication. This kind of recognition reflects a company known for quality, innovation, and best practices, and makes it a proud place to work
- Strategic Visibility & Organizational Impact: Serve in a high-impact planning role with executive visibility, influencing leadership decisions through market intelligence, forecasting, and cost modeling while partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Finance to drive value engineering and manufacturability improvements.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own and drive the master production schedule to meet customer commitments
- Balance demand, capacity, and materials to create realistic, executable plans
- Adjust schedules as conditions change to maintain on-time delivery
- Ensure ERP data accurately reflects production activity
- Maintain BOMs, routers, and key planning parameters
- Resolve data issues that impact scheduling and execution
- Align labor, equipment, and materials with production demand
- Identify constraints early and drive solutions
- Provide visibility into risks and bottlenecks
- Improve planning processes to increase throughput and reduce lead times
- Track performance against key delivery metrics
- Coordinate across production, supply chain, and leadership to ensure execution
About the Company:
Special Products & Mfg., Inc. (SPM) is a precision sheet metal fabrication and contract manufacturing company headquartered in Rockwall, Texas, with additional facilities in the region, serving OEMs across a wide range of industries. With more than 60 years of manufacturing experience, the company provides comprehensive in-house capabilities including laser cutting, CNC machining, metal forming, welding, powder coating, and electro-mechanical assembly. Supported by ISO 9001:2015 certification, advanced automation, and lean manufacturing practices, SPM delivers scalable, high-quality production solutions designed to meet evolving customer demands
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to the individual’s race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, genetic information, status as a military veteran, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
