Production Control Scheduler IV– Test & Inspection

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.

Texas

On-site

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Parental leave

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. in Texas seeks a Production Control Scheduler to own the integrated schedule for ETL, Briggs test stands, CMM lab, and internal inspection/ testing workflows.

You will translate milestones into executable daily/weekly plans and coordinate with Manufacturing, Test Ops, Engineering, Quality, Metrology, and Supply Chain. The role requires 10+ years in production control with aerospace scheduling experience, proficiency in MS Project/Primavera, and strong Excel skills.

Qualifications

Ten+ years in production control or scheduling, preferably in aerospace or defense.
Experience with integrated schedules using MS Project, Primavera P6, or Deltek Open Plan.
Familiarity with ERP/MRP/MES systems and data analysis tools.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain capacity-constrained schedules for test and inspection centers.
Translate milestones into linked daily/weekly schedules with dependencies.
Identify resource needs, constraints, and critical paths; manage flow.
Coordinate priorities across programs and recover from schedule issues.
Maintain schedule baselines and provide updates during reviews.

Skills

Scheduling fundamentals

Microsoft Project

Primavera P6

Deltek Open Plan

Odoo / ERP systems

Microsoft Excel

Reading manufacturing drawings

Education

Bachelor’s degree in operations management or related field

Tools

Power Query / Power BI

Job description

At Firefly, we’re focused on making space attainable for everyone – including you! Each team member’s passion, dedication, and innovative ideas have a direct impact on fueling our successful trajectory into space. And there’s no shortage of meaningful projects to work on at Firefly. With launch, lunar, and orbital vehicles, Firefly has a diverse line of business with opportunities to get hands‑on experience launching rockets, operating in space, and landing on the Moon.

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Our Values

Headquartered in the Lone Star State, Firefly’s hardworking team reflects Texas’ GO BIG culture in everything we do. We build big, achieve big, and dream big. We’re building launch vehicles and spacecraft to provide rapid, reliable space access. We’ve achieved some incredible wins, including the first successful commercial Moon landing. And we’re dreaming bigger than this planet with ambitions to Mars, Venus, and beyond. Our core values are what drive us along the way.

Passion

Fireflies believe in perseverance, responsiveness, and mentoring others with a focus on inspiring a better future.

Accountability

Fireflies act with integrity and take ownership of our actions, commitments, decisions, and outcomes.

Fireflies work in alignment across teams and communicate clearly with mutual respect for one another.

Fireflies deliver high-quality work through technical rigor and timely disciplined execution for our customers.

We take care of our Fireflies with some of the best benefits in the industry. Our mission to make space for everyone starts with our employees and allowing them to make space for their family, their career, and their future.

Space for You

Unlimited PTO for exempt employees
3-month sabbatical for every 5 years of service
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
Mental health services
Paid military leave

Space for Your Family

12 weeks paid maternity leave
4 weeks paid spouse leave
$20k towards family planning: fertility, surrogacy, adoption
Dog friendly workplace

Space for Your Career

$10k/year towards trade school or college
Ongoing coaching to advance leadership skills

Employee-ownership with stock bonuses
4% Safe Harbor 401(k) matching
$10k bonus for home purchase in Cedar Park, Texas

Job Openings

From launch technicians to propulsion engineers, Firefly has open roles across the company. We’re looking for passionate, bright innovators to join our team and help make space an achievable dream for everyone.

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Firefly Aerospace is seeking a Production Control Scheduler to own the integrated schedule and workflow for the ETL, Briggs test stands, Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) lab, and other internal inspection and testing operations.

This position connects manufacturing output, test and inspection capacity, and program requirements. The scheduler will develop executable work-center schedules based on program need dates, hardware readiness, labor, equipment availability, resource capacity, and required work sequence.

The successful candidate must have solid scheduling fundamentals and experience applying them in a professional scheduling tool. This is a floor-focused role requiring regular presence at both Cedar Park and Briggs and direct coordination with Manufacturing, Test Operations, Engineering, Quality, Metrology, Supply Chain, Production Control, and Program Operations.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain capacity-constrained schedules for the ETL, Briggs test stands, CMM lab, and internal inspection and testing work centers.

Translate program milestones and customer need dates into logically linked daily, weekly, and longer-range schedules.

Establish activity sequences, dependencies, resource requirements, constraints, and critical paths.

Manage part and test-article flow through testing, dimensional inspection, internal checks, data review, disposition, and release to the next operation.

Evaluate work-center demand against available labor, equipment capability, test-stand availability, historical performance, and planned maintenance.

Confirm hardware readiness before assigning test or inspection capacity, including:Manufacturing and assembly completionApproved test or inspection requirementsCorrect engineering configurationTooling, fixtures, instrumentation, and support equipmentRequired personnel and facility resourcesQuality, metrology, engineering, and safety approvals

Maintain visibility of ready work, blocked work, work in process, queue aging, forecast completion dates, and downstream schedule impacts.

Work with production and test teams to establish daily priorities and ensure resources are assigned to the most critical work.

Identify schedule conflicts, part shortages, capacity constraints, and risks before they affect program commitments.

Develop forward- and backward-scheduled recovery options following test failures, nonconformances, equipment downtime, rework, or changing program priorities.

Coordinate priorities when multiple programs compete for the same test, inspection, or technical resources.

Maintain schedule baselines and perform critical-path, capacity, schedule-variance, and planned-versus-actual analysis.

Maintain current execution status in Odoo and approved scheduling and visual-management systems.

Provide concise updates on priorities, schedule risks, required decisions, and recovery actions during operating-tier and program reviews.

Escalate issues that may affect manufacturing output or program IMS commitments.

Use performance data to improve planning assumptions, schedule accuracy, work-center utilization, and overall hardware flow.

Minimum Qualifications

Ten or more years of professional experience in production control, test scheduling, production scheduling, manufacturing planning, or a related field.

Demonstrated understanding of scheduling fundamentals, including activity sequencing, logic and precedence, dependencies, constraints, critical-path analysis, schedule baselines, resource loading, and variance analysis.

Professional experience developing and maintaining integrated schedules using Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Deltek Open Plan, or comparable scheduling software.

Experience with Odoo or another ERP, MRP, or MES system used to manage work orders, routings, priorities, dates, and execution status.

Experience scheduling work within a manufacturing, aerospace, defense, automotive, or engineering test environment.

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple work centers, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies.

Strong Microsoft Excel and data-analysis skills.

Ability to read and understand manufacturing documentation, routings, engineering drawings, inspection requirements, and test procedures.

Strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to drive decisions across functional organizations.

Ability to work on-site and travel regularly between Cedar Park and Briggs.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in operations management, supply chain, industrial engineering, business, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.

Three to five years of production-control or scheduling experience within an aerospace manufacturing or test environment.

Experience scheduling propulsion, component, qualification, acceptance, or development testing.

Experience managing dimensional-inspection or CMM work-center flow.

Experience with engineering changes, configuration control, nonconformances, rework, and retesting.

Familiarity with Power Query, Power BI, SQL, or other data-visualization and analysis tools.

Lean manufacturing or continuous-improvement experience.

Work Requirements

This is an on-site position requiring regular presence at both Cedar Park and Briggs.

The position will spend significant time in manufacturing, metrology, and active test environments.

Occasional early-morning, evening, weekend, or on-call support may be required based on test activity and program needs.

The employee must be able to travel between Firefly locations as business needs require.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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