Space Manufacturing Planning Lead

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, CO, is hiring a Manufacturing Planning Manager (Level 4) to lead a team of 6–8 schedulers in end-to-end production planning and scheduling. You will coordinate with program management, senior leadership, prod ops, manufacturing and engineering to optimize capacity and throughput.

You will drive planning techniques, conduct risk assessments, and leverage metrics to improve performance while ensuring adherence to schedule and cost baselines.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of manufacturing/operations/scheduling/logistics experience.
• Experience with production scheduling, capacity and critical path analysis, and material control.
• Experience using scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project, Oracle, Primavera.
• Experience using ERP systems.
• Experience using Excel to interpret data and drive action.
• Prior experience leading a team.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior leadership.
• U.S. citizenship is required due to work location requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support production, program and related processes in a team-based manufacturing environment.
• Oversee end-to-end planning and schedule management for production planning and execution.
• Collaborate with program management, senior leadership, production operations, manufacturing and industrial engineering to understand production spans and capacity.
• Provide leadership to the production planning team of 6–8 schedulers.
• Ensure planning techniques incorporate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baselines; perform risk assessments.
• Coordinate time-phased analyses, critical path verification and schedule risk assessments.
• Utilize performance and health metrics to drive actions that improve performance.

Skills

Scheduling

Team leadership

Data interpretation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Project

Oracle

Primavera

ERP systems

Excel

Job description

Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, CO, is hiring a Manufacturing Planning Manager (Level 4) to lead a team of 6–8 schedulers in end-to-end production planning and scheduling. You will coordinate with program management, senior leadership, prod ops, manufacturing and engineering to optimize capacity and throughput.

You will drive planning techniques, conduct risk assessments, and leverage metrics to improve performance while ensuring adherence to schedule and cost baselines.