Sr. Manager Production Planning & Materials
Lightera-Creating Brighter Connections
Lightera is a global leader in optical fiber and connectivity solutions, creating technologies that help the world communicate, compute, connect, and grow. From communications networks and data centers to advanced industrial and specialty applications, our teams develop solutions that enable faster, more reliable, and more resilient connections around the world.
The name Lightera combines “light” and “era” to represent a new era of connectivity made possible by light. It reflects our roots in fiber optics and our ambition to help shape a brighter, more connected future.
At Lightera, we are creating brighter connections through innovation, expertise, and collaboration. Our principles, We Lead, We Learn, and We Care, guide how we work, solve problems, support one another, and serve our customers. Lightera is committed to safety of our employees and the communities where we operate.
Working at Lightera
Joining Lightera means working alongside people solving complex challenges in optical communications and connectivity. We offer opportunities to contribute, learn, develop your expertise, and help create technologies that connect people, businesses, and communities around the world. In addition, we offer competitive salaries and generous benefits programs including medical, dental, tuition reimbursement, and a matching 401(k) plan.
Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, Lightera operates globally, serving customers across communications, data center, industrial, medical, aerospace, defense, and other advanced technology markets. Lightera is part of the Furukawa Electric Group
Senior Manager-Production Planning & Materials
Carrollton, GA-Onsite
Hybrid: Work is performed in both office and manufacturing environments, with responsibilities requiring time in administrative workspaces as well as production areas.
The Senior Manager, Production Planning & Materials provides strategic and operational leadership for production planning, master scheduling, material requirements planning, inventory management, and manufacturing readiness within a complex manufacturing environment. The role connects customer demand, material availability, production capacity, and factory execution to ensure the organization can manufacture the right products, at the right time, with the right materials and resources.
This leader partners closely with Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, Customer Service, and Commercial teams to identify constraints, resolve shortages, improve schedule performance, optimize inventory, and strengthen planning discipline. The successful candidate brings deep experience operating inside a manufacturing environment and understands how SAP or other ERP/MRP systems, planning decisions, and material signals translate into day-to-day factory performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end production planning and materials management function for the assigned manufacturing operation, site, business unit, or network.
- Develop and govern production plans and master schedules that balance customer demand, plant capacity, labor, equipment, material availability, and inventory objectives.
- Own or oversee master production scheduling (MPS), material requirements planning (MRP), capaci...
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