Production Planner
Abbott Laboratories
Des Plaines, IL · Posted November 1, 2026
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Operations jobs in the rankings
Rankings about operations jobs
- Best cities for operations jobs #1 New York (1,429 openings)
- Best cities for operations pay after cost of living #1 Reston ($177k)
- Most requested AI skills in operations jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (2.5%)
- AI tools named most often in operations jobs #1 Claude (0.28%)
- Employers with the most operations jobs #1 Amazon (1,480 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing does not state pay. Across 73 open production planner listings that state pay, the middle half runs $77,500 to $92,000 and the median is $86,000.
Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
How AI is used in this kind of work
Among logisticians, AI is already used for some of the tasks. Measured exposure for logisticians: 16% (some).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
Supports manufacturing operations by planning and scheduling production, managing raw material and work-in-process inventory, and coordinating material flow to meet customer demand. Uses planning systems and data analysis to balance capacity, maintain inventory targets...