Defense Manufacturing: Production Scheduler & Build Planner

Neros Technologies; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Neros Technologies in Torrance, CA, is seeking a production planning professional to convert material availability and customer demand into a daily SKU-level build plan. You will coordinate between supply chain, production, and engineering to drive the factory schedule and ship priorities.

Responsibilities include maintaining a 30-day horizon plan, releasing work orders in MES, and staying on top of variances with recovery plans.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in production planning, scheduling, or production control in a physical manufacturing environment.
• Experience building an executable production schedule against constrained material availability, and maintaining it as conditions change.
• Fluent with routings, bills of material, work orders, and revision control.
• Hands-on experience with an MES or ERP as a daily user.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and building a model others can use.
• Comfortable spending real time on the floor; planning occurs at the station.
• Clear written communication; daily plans are read by others who may not ask for clarification.

Responsibilities

• Attend supply chain and material reviews to establish a clear-to-build picture across a rolling 30-day horizon, by SKU and by constraints
• Publish and maintain a daily, SKU-level production build plan that sequences the right configurations at the right time against material, labor, and test capacity
• Reconcile plan versus actual daily, surface variance the day it occurs, and work with production leadership on recovery plans
• Partner with business development, program management, and logistics to build the daily ship list, and give the packout team clear direction on which orders go out and in what order
• Confirm configuration, accessory content, and documentation requirements are set before an order reaches packout
• Create, release, and track production work orders in MES so the build plan is reflected in the system of record
• Monitor work order status, WIP aging, and throughput data in the MES to inform the daily plan
• Partner with the MES Engineer and manufacturing engineering when process plans, routings, or ECO effectivity need to change. You will identify the need and provide production context. Ownership of process plan configuration sits with the Manufacturing Engineer

Skills

Production scheduling

MES/ERP daily user

Excel (pivot tables, lookups)

Routings & BOMs

On-floor planning

Tools

Manufacturo MES

Netsuite

Job description

Neros Technologies in Torrance, CA, is seeking a production planning professional to convert material availability and customer demand into a daily SKU-level build plan. You will coordinate between supply chain, production, and engineering to drive the factory schedule and ship priorities.

Responsibilities include maintaining a 30-day horizon plan, releasing work orders in MES, and staying on top of variances with recovery plans.