Planning Manager: Advanced Manufacturing & Scheduling Lead

Amro Fabricating Corporation; Gulfport (MS); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Health Savings Account (HSA) with公司贡献

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Résumé du poste

Karman Space & Defense in Gulfport, MS is seeking a Planning Manager to lead the planning organization and develop integrated schedules across advanced-composite manufacturing programs. The role requires driving resource-loaded plans, coordinating with operations, engineering, and supply chain, and delivering executable manufacturing plans using Microsoft Project and ERP data.

The schedule is a 4×10 configuration with every other Friday off; a strong background in planning and program management

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project and resource-loaded scheduling.
• Experience leading planning, scheduling, production planning, project controls, or related functions in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of integrated master scheduling, critical path, dependencies, baselines, resource loading, capacity planning, and forecasting.
• Experience coordinating across program management, engineering, manufacturing, operations, and supply chain.
• Ability to interpret ERP labor, cost, material, work-order, and production data.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Leads the planning function, including program scheduling, production planning, materials planning, and capacity planning.
• Managers staffing, priorities, performance, and development of Planners and Program Schedulers.
• Establishes standardized planning processes, tools, templates, and data expectations that support operational decision‑making.
• Owns the integrated planning and scheduling process using Microsoft Project and Project Server, ensuring alignment across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, inspection, and delivery.
• Maintains integrated schedules with clear logic, baselines, resource loading, progress updates, critical-path visibility, and change control.
• Develops executable manufacturing plans for advanced composite processes, incorporating materials, tooling, specialized equipment, cure cycles, inspection, and customer requirements.
• Identifies bottlenecks and develops staffing, shift, overtime, equipment‑utilization, and recovery strategies to protect delivery commitments.
• Leads production, capacity, and resource planning across functions, including labor forecasting, equipment loading, and scenario development.
• Integrates ERP, product data management (PDM), bills of material (BOMs), routings, material status, and shop‑floor data with enterprise scheduling tools to maintain a single source of truth.
• Communicates schedule, capacity, material, equipment, and manpower risks with clear data and actionable recommendations, supporting both internal and customer reviews.

Connaissances

Resource-loaded scheduling

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Formation

Associate or Bachelor's degree in operations, supply chain, business, engineering, manufacturing, project management, or related field

Outils

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project Server

Deltek Costpoint

Power BI

Description du poste

Karman Space & Defense in Gulfport, MS is seeking a Planning Manager to lead the planning organization and develop integrated schedules across advanced-composite manufacturing programs. The role requires driving resource-loaded plans, coordinating with operations, engineering, and supply chain, and delivering executable manufacturing plans using Microsoft Project and ERP data.

The schedule is a 4×10 configuration with every other Friday off; a strong background in planning and program management