Senior Production Scheduler Aerospace & Test Ops

Firefly Aerospace; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision plans

Parental leave

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Short-term disability

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace is seeking a seasoned Production Control Scheduler to own integrated schedules for ETL, test stands, and lab operations. The role connects manufacturing output, test capacity, and program requirements, requiring on-site presence at Cedar Park and Briggs.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in production control, strong scheduling fundamentals, and hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems and aerospace environments. Travel between locations is expected.

Qualifications

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

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

Skills

Scheduling fundamentals

Microsoft Project

Primavera P6

Odoo ERP

Excel and data analysis

Cross-functional coordination

On-site travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in operations management, supply chain, industrial engineering

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Deltek

MS Office

Job description

Firefly Aerospace is seeking a seasoned Production Control Scheduler to own integrated schedules for ETL, test stands, and lab operations. The role connects manufacturing output, test capacity, and program requirements, requiring on-site presence at Cedar Park and Briggs.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in production control, strong scheduling fundamentals, and hands-on experience with ERP/MRP systems and aerospace environments. Travel between locations is expected.