Satellite Production Planner

Telemetry Today LLC; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Xona is expanding its production planning team in Burlingame, CA, seeking a Production Planner / Scheduler to own the master production schedule, release work orders, and align staffing and equipment priorities for satellite manufacturing.

You will partner with Supply Chain, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Program Management to translate the master plan into actionable schedules, manage constraints, and ensure on-time delivery of satellites.

Qualifications

• Holds a bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or related technical discipline.
• APICS or ASCM certification is desirable.
• Experience in aerospace, satellite, defense, medical device, semiconductor, or other high-complexity manufacturing environments preferred.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a planning, production control, logistics, MRP or inventory management role is essential in a rate-production facility.
• Strong understanding, proficiency and experience with MRP/ERP systems and production scheduling, capacity planning and materials management.
• Advanced Excel user, able to extract and interpret digital data from multiple systems to evaluate/monitor/model and improve the production planning processes.
• Has a working understanding of lean manufacturing principles and QMS systems
• Data-driven decision maker, able to anticipate risks to production and supply chain and work to mitigate them before production schedules are impacted.
• Excellent organizational, communication and analytical skills required.
• For U.S. Roles: To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Responsibilities

• Manage the master production schedule and coordinated work order releases into the production facility.
• Coordinate the work order release, capacity planning, material kitting and inventory staging in accordance with the established production plan.
• Manage all schedule changes/issues and adjustments and perform impact analysis and modelling to optimize production efficiency.
• Monitor all work-in-progress activities, ensuring that ECO’s, NCRs or material supplier issues are managed and coordinated swiftly and effectively.
• Manage daily production control as an active participant of shop-floor production stand-up meetings and other scheduled operations reviews.
• Use digital tools: MRP, MES, etc. to optimize production planning activities and schedule coordination across cells/teams/shifts/sites.
• Support both short-term and long-term planning activities, to facilitate effective people and equipment capacity planning and budgeting.
• Actively improve and optimize the planning processes and activities over time in the Xona HQ facility and in close collaboration with the Montreal facility team.

Skills

APICS certification

Lean principles

Advanced Excel

Data-driven decisions

Capacity planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or related technical discipline

Tools

MRP/ERP systems

MES

Job description

Xona is expanding its production planning team in Burlingame, CA, seeking a Production Planner / Scheduler to own the master production schedule, release work orders, and align staffing and equipment priorities for satellite manufacturing.

You will partner with Supply Chain, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Program Management to translate the master plan into actionable schedules, manage constraints, and ensure on-time delivery of satellites.