Production Scheduler

Astranis; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Astranis is hiring a Production Scheduler to develop and maintain detailed schedules for flight hardware, R&D, tooling, and testing equipment. You will align with production leadership and the engineering program management team to create end-to-end, realistic plans that drive on-time delivery.

The role requires solving complex scheduling problems, communicating status clearly, and thriving in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. Base salary is competitive with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or similar technical discipline.
• 2+ years of professional experience in aerospace industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed resource-loaded schedules for multiple factory workcenters.
• Work with production leadership to develop realistic but aggressive plans and with engineering program management to integrate schedules into end-to-end programmatic schedules.
• Derive and communicate clear targets and priorities for every hardware and process, ensuring resource allocation, schedule accuracy and on-time delivery.
• Identify and report schedule risks, impacts, and workarounds.
• Perform quick what-if schedule modeling and analyses for emergent risks.
• Create, maintain and use scheduling processes and tools to identify and act on potential constraints daily/weekly.
• Collaborate with software and procurement teams to implement and maintain an MRP system with data accuracy.
• Communicate schedule status to stakeholders through reports, meetings and dashboards.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or similar technical discipline

2+ years of professional work in aerospace industry

Tools

MRP systems

Job description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe - large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.

With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.

Astranis has raised over $1.2 billion from some of the world’s best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford, Blackrock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, and Snowpoint, and employs a team of 500 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.

Production Scheduler

The Production Scheduler manages and owns production schedules for designated areas of the factory and designated phases of production. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining plans for building and testing flight hardware by accumulating inputs from across the company and ensuring the schedule remains up to date and efficient. These plans will push the limits of what is possible but are still achievable, gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, and working with company leadership and production resources to execute them.

The ideal candidate must be able to filter a complex schedule of thousands of lines into simple targets that people can understand, navigate under-constrained problems with large data sets and converge on a path forward, stay aware of the status of many things and spot problems before they occur, and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. If you are the ultimate organizer, can juggle 10 things at once with ease, walk into a room with many different opinions and out of that room with one clear shared goal, and have a passion for ruthless execution and improvement - this might be the role for you!

Role

• Develop and maintain detailed resource-loaded schedules for multiple factory workcenters that process flight hardware, R&D hardware, tooling, and test equipment.
• Work closely with the production leadership team to develop and execute realistic but aggressive plans, and with the engineering program management team to integrate these schedules into end-to-end programmatic schedules.
• Derive and communicate clear targets and priorities for every piece of hardware and process in the relevant production workcenters, and work with production managers to ensure appropriate allocation of resources, schedule accuracy and on-time delivery.
• Identify and report on schedule risks, their impacts, and workarounds.
• Perform quick “what if” schedule modeling and analyses on multiple possible outcomes to help make decisions on emergent risks.
• Create, maintain, and use scheduling processes and tools to identify, analyze, and act on potential constraints on a daily/weekly basis.
• Work with software and procurement teams to implement and maintain a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system, ensuring data accuracy.
• Constantly communicate schedule status and changes to key stakeholders across the business, in written reports, meetings/presentations, and in automated fashion using dashboards and other tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or similar technical discipline, or 2+ years of professional work in the aerospace industry.
• 2+ years of professional experience as a program manager, manufacturing engineer, or scheduler

Bonus

• Experience with Smartsheet or MS Project scheduling software.
• Proficiency in SQL query writing, and ability to create custom dashboards in Grafana/Tableau/PowerBI/etc.
• Experienced in planning and scheduling using ERP/MRP software systems.
• Understanding of the aerospace engineering lifecycle.
• Understanding of spacecraft assembly, integration, and test methods.

What we offer:

All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.

Base pay is just one component of Astranis's total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.

Base Salary

$100,000 - $140,000 USD

U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required

(To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))

Our mission and products are built for everyone, regardless of gender, race, creed, or background. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we invite all people to join our team and bring their unique perspectives to make us stronger.