Planner

• Translate commercial and merchandising strategies into data-driven financial and inventory plans
• Conduct multi-year trend, sales, and product performance analysis
• Identify assortment opportunities, optimize style productivity, and improve category profitability
• Analyze business performance against financial and merchandising plans
• Identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends and translate insights into actionable recommendations
• Develop and maintain merchandise forecasts and financial plans aligned with sales, revenue, margin, and inventory objectives
• Partner with Commercial, Sales, and Finance teams to align merchandise plans and forecasts with business targets
• Collaborate with Merchandising, Sourcing, Commercial, and Demand Planning on product lifecycle decisions
• Evaluate assortment performance across categories, products, styles, and distribution channels
• Establish product costing and margin targets
• Develop and maintain KPIs and assortment benchmarks by distribution channel
• Identify inventory, margin, and assortment risks and develop recommendations with cross-functional teams
• Provide reporting, analysis, and business insights to stakeholders
• Prepare decision-ready summaries and presentations for leadership

Merchandise Planner

• Maintain input data driving replenishment triggers from the Material Resource Planning system, including lead time, reorder point, maximum inventory level, reorder quantity, and scaled purchase quantities
• Determine inventory management methodology for individual materials or material groups
• Assist in developing bottom-up forecast models and liaise with business owners for consensus
• Review MRP-created Purchase Requisitions and release appropriate requisitions for purchase orders
• Ensure quantities and suppliers support best-practice purchasing
• Set up new item numbers, obtain vendor quotes, and set up costs and Bills of Materials in SAP
• Complete regular cost audits
• Collaborate with Quality to manage adherence to customer and regulatory requirements
• Review inventory levels, assess performance, and recommend changes to optimize working capital, customer service, and strategic initiatives
• Manage inventory metrics including turns, GMROII, and inventory aging
• Manage onboarding and sunsetting of materials and material groups
• Improve operations, turnaround times, and work processes while providing seamless customer service
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as requested

Inventory Planner

• Lead preparation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans, Wildfire Risk Assessments, Vegetation Management Plans, and other wildfire resilience, hazard mitigation, and implementation-focused planning documents
• Develop project approaches, scopes of work, schedules, staffing plans, labor estimates, and budgets
• Monitor RFPs and other opportunities and lead or support capture planning, teaming, proposal development, interviews, and contract negotiations
• Serve as project manager and primary client contact for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and delivery
• Supervise, mentor, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams of planners, foresters, fire professionals, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, and technical contributors
• Conduct or direct wildfire risk and community resilience assessments using field observations, GIS data, existing plans, stakeholder input, and technical studies
• Translate technical findings into prioritized recommendations for vegetation management, community preparedness, public education, resilient infrastructure, emergency access, and long-term implementation
• Design and facilitate engagement with fire agencies, land management agencies, local governments, utilities, community organizations, property owners, and other interested parties
• Lead quality assurance and quality control for technical analyses, plans, maps, graphics, cost estimates, and implementation strategies
• Present methods, findings, and recommendations to clients, agencies, community groups, governing bodies, and decision-makers
• Support grant applications, funding strategies, monitoring frameworks, and implementation road maps
• Maintain awareness of evolving wildfire policy, planning guidance, funding programs, and industry practices, particularly in California and the western United States

Mid-Senior Wildfire Resilience Planner

• Support senior executive staff and/or VP within Software and Services
• Organize business operations, including staff meetings and special assignments
• Drive efficient and effective operating processes
• Develop and maintain multi-year business strategy
• Manage portfolio and business planning processes
• Summarize project business cases, including deliverables, benefits, and timing
• Assess execution of business initiatives against the business plan
• Analyze and report key operating metrics
• Handle special assignments
• Develop and conduct presentations for all levels of management
• Identify and implement business-management process improvements
• Run cross-functional projects, solve problems, and anticipate next steps

Business Planner

• Lead feasibility analysis and site master planning studies
• Track a three-year horizon of planned efforts to inform the project roadmap
• Report on project requirements and space-planning initiatives for lab and office renovations or new construction
• Develop renovation options and create reports and presentations on proposals
• Partner with leadership to align project strategy with business development plans and initiatives
• Define and evaluate stakeholder objectives and develop solutions
• Communicate and manage objectives with architects, engineers, internal project managers, and general contractors throughout construction projects
• Ensure project planning complies with applicable codes, standards, specifications, internal validation, and change-control requirements
• Assess facility-space impacts across simultaneous planning efforts
• Create preliminary project budgets and schedules
• Partner with Procurement to create and execute contracts and purchase orders
• Review bid information and third-party cost estimates and determine awards
• Schedule project review and sign-off meetings and review construction materials and methods
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored after closeout
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and manage third-party consultants and vendors
• Forecast and document space needs based on departmental growth and change
• Participate in creating engineering specifications and design standards
• Provide daily operational support and perform other assigned duties
• Manage time and priorities independently, plan contingencies, and communicate complex equipment-system concepts cross-functionally

Projects Planner

• Develop, release, and manage production work orders to support customer demand, manufacturing capacity, and production schedules
• Analyze Material Requirements Planning (MRP) recommendations and production demand to ensure timely material availability and efficient manufacturing execution
• Monitor production schedules, work order status, and material constraints while identifying risks that could impact on-time delivery
• Coordinate with Purchasing, Production Control, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality to resolve material shortages, scheduling conflicts, and production constraints
• Analyze engineering changes, Bills of Material (BOMs), and product structure to ensure accurate planning, material availability, and production readiness
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) activities by coordinating production planning, material readiness, engineering changes, and manufacturing implementation
• Evaluate production capacity, inventory availability, and manufacturing priorities to optimize workflow, material utilization, and resource allocation
• Monitor production performance, schedule attainment, work-in-process (WIP), and inventory levels while recommending corrective actions
• Analyze demand changes, production priorities, and supply constraints to evaluate schedule impacts and communicate planning recommendations to Supply Chain leadership
• Generate and maintain planning reports, production schedules, inventory analyses, and operational metrics
• Support expedited production requirements, recovery plans, and schedule changes to meet customer commitments and business objectives
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on production planning, inventory optimization, schedule adherence, manufacturing efficiency, and operational performance
• Work cross-functionally with Master Scheduling, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Production Control, and Program Management

Program Planner

• Lead production planning activities for assigned customer programs by developing and maintaining executable manufacturing plans
• Analyze MRP recommendations, approved demand requirements, capacity constraints, inventory levels, and material availability
• Evaluate production capacity, WIP status, inventory conditions, and material constraints to identify planning risks and develop recovery recommendations
• Coordinate planning activities for NPI, engineering changes, product transfers, and manufacturing readiness
• Collaborate with Purchasing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Production Control, and Program Management to resolve material shortages, scheduling conflicts, and production constraints
• Analyze BOMs, engineering documentation, planning parameters, and demand changes
• Review production performance, schedule attainment, inventory utilization, WIP status, and execution constraints
• Lead planning for critical customer requirements, material shortages, changing priorities, and schedule recovery
• Generate and communicate production planning reports, schedule forecasts, capacity analyses, inventory assessments, and operational performance metrics
• Serve as the planning subject matter expert and mentor Program Planners
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives involving production planning, schedule adherence, ERP/MRP effectiveness, inventory optimization, planning accuracy, and manufacturing efficiency
• Ensure planning activities align with organizational procedures, customer requirements, engineering documentation, and manufacturing processes
• Support Master Production Schedule (MPS) execution
• Balance customer demand, material availability, manufacturing capacity, and operational requirements

Senior Program Planner

• Manage public-sector wildfire evacuation planning and analysis projects, including General Plan and Safety Element evacuation studies
• Develop evacuation scenarios, assumptions, and methodologies
• Evaluate evacuation route capacity, constraints, travel-time considerations, congestion areas, and operational needs
• Analyze project maps, plans, datasets, GIS data, field data, and related research
• Conduct field assessments to evaluate evacuation hazard conditions
• Prepare or support evacuation plans and technical reports with recommendations
• Direct wildfire evacuation modeling by traffic and transportation planners
• Coordinate with clients and partner agencies, including local jurisdictions, fire agencies, law enforcement, and transportation/public works
• Obtain data, validate assumptions, and align recommendations
• Lead QA/QC for technical memoranda, graphics, and supporting documentation
• Attend meetings and present findings to project teams, stakeholders, public decision-making bodies, agencies, community groups, and incident management personnel as needed

Senior Emergency Management and Evacuation Planner

• Analyze project maps, plans, and data sets and summarize wildfire conditions for reports and management plans
• Conduct field assessments to evaluate wildfire hazard conditions
• Analyze field data and GIS data and conduct project-related research
• Prepare or support preparation of fire protection plans, technical reports, and fire hazard reduction recommendations
• Attend meetings to discuss project-related assessment and analysis results
• Represent clients and Dudek to local agencies
• Partner with landowners and land management agencies to evaluate wildfire hazards and develop plans that reduce wildfire risk
• Travel to project sites and client or fire agency offices throughout California as necessary
• Attend in-person and virtual meetings and communicate with government agency representatives, members of the public, and others

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