Aerospace Production Planner – Ramp-Up & Scheduling

DART Aerospace Company; Kirkland; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

DART Aerospace in Kirkland, Canada is seeking a Production Planner to translate the master production schedule into daily and weekly priorities. You will collaborate with Production, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse and other teams to ensure timely work orders, material readiness and capacity alignment on the shop floor.

The role emphasizes hands-on planning near the shop floor, ERP data usage, and quick reactions to constraints to support ramp-up and day-to-day manufacturing execution at the

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in production planning, manufacturing planning, scheduling, materials planning, or a related manufacturing role.
• Experience working directly within a manufacturing or production environment.
• Hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems.
• Plex experience preferred; SAP, Oracle, Epicor, Dynamics, or similar ERP systems are also acceptable.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookups.
• Experience working with Bills of Materials (BOMs), work orders, production schedules, and material requirements.
• Ability to identify material shortages, production constraints, capacity issues, and scheduling conflicts.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong discipline around transactional accuracy.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Production, Quality, Purchasing, and Warehouse teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate the master production schedule into daily and weekly production priorities.
• Create, release, and maintain production jobs and work orders in Plex.
• Coordinate production sequencing based on customer requirements, material availability, capacity, and operational priorities.
• Issue work orders, kit requirements, shortage reports, and production priorities to the shop floor.
• Monitor work-in-progress and open production orders against schedule.
• Track job completion and ensure work orders are closed accurately and on time.
• Identify schedule conflicts, capacity bottlenecks, and potential delivery risks.
• Adjust production priorities when shortages, quality issues, or operational constraints affect the schedule.
• Escalate critical production risks to the Master Planner.
• Work closely with Production Supervisors and shop-floor teams to understand real-time production status and constraints.
• Monitor production output against the planned schedule.
• Identify delays, bottlenecks, and deviations from plan.
• Support recovery plans when production falls behind schedule.
• Coordinate priorities across multiple work orders and production activities.
• Support production ramp-up and changing manufacturing requirements.
• Help ensure that production commitments remain aligned with operational capacity.
• Confirm that required materials, components, and kits are available before production starts.
• Review shortages and work with Purchasing and Warehouse teams to resolve material constraints.
• Coordinate with Quality Control regarding inspection status, quarantined materials, and release requirements.
• Ensure production jobs are aligned with available materials and component readiness.
• Support material staging and kit preparation for production activities.
• Support First Article Inspection activities where required.
• Maintain accurate production information in Plex.
• Review production job status, labor, material consumption, and completion information.
• Support job closure and reconciliation of production variances.
• Maintain accurate planning-related data such as lead times, lot sizes, production quantities, and scheduling parameters.
• Use ERP and Excel data to identify risks and support production decisions.
• Ensure strong transactional discipline and data accuracy.

Skills

Production planning

ERP/MRP systems

Excel (pivot tables & lookups)

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Plex

SAP

Oracle

Epicor

Dynamics

Power BI

Job description

DART Aerospace in Kirkland, Canada is seeking a Production Planner to translate the master production schedule into daily and weekly priorities. You will collaborate with Production, Purchasing, Quality, Warehouse and other teams to ensure timely work orders, material readiness and capacity alignment on the shop floor.

The role emphasizes hands-on planning near the shop floor, ERP data usage, and quick reactions to constraints to support ramp-up and day-to-day manufacturing execution at the