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Senior Production Planner

Standard Nuclear · Oak Ridge, TN · On-site

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About the role

The Senior Production Planner is responsible for developing production schedules and building the planning framework needed to support Standard Nuclear’s growing manufacturing operations. This role translates project demand, engineering inputs, production constraints, material availability, and facility capacity into practical schedules that support execution across multiple facilities.

What they're looking for

  • Develop and maintain production schedules based on project demand, production readiness, facility capacity, and material availability
  • Translate customer, project, and internal priorities into executable production plans
  • Build weekly and longer-range production schedules that account for equipment availability, labor, materials, quality requirements, and operational constraints
  • Monitor schedule performance and adjust plans as priorities, constraints, or production realities change
  • Communicate schedule changes, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to production, project, and leadership teams
  • Evaluate production capacity across facilities, equipment, labor, and process steps
More about this role

Standard Nuclear is fueling America’s nuclear renaissance at industrial scale. Our mission is to deliver the essential building blocks of nuclear power—enabling cost-effective, safe, and secure energy for the world.

The Senior Production Planner is responsible for developing production schedules and building the planning framework needed to support Standard Nuclear’s growing manufacturing operations. This role translates project demand, engineering inputs, production constraints, material availability, and facility capacity into practical schedules that support execution across multiple facilities.

This is a hands-on planning role in a fast-growing manufacturing environment where production processes, capacity models, and planning systems are actively being developed. The Senior Production Planner will work closely with production, engineering, supply chain, quality, and project teams to gather inputs, identify bottlenecks, estimate throughput, and create schedules that reflect real operational capability.

The role requires strong manufacturing judgment, analytical ability, and comfort working in an environment where assumptions must be tested and refined as operations scale. This...

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