Strategic Manufacturing Production Planner

General Atomics; Poway (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) seeks a planning and scheduling professional to support major projects by coordinating production schedules, material requirements and budgeting.

You will work with Purchasing, Finance and QA to ensure timely material flow and accurate reporting. Required is a bachelor's degree in business administration with planning/production emphasis and six+ years in planning, scheduling and performance measurement, with DoD clearance.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in Planning, Engineering, Production Control or a related discipline and six or more years progressive experience in planning, scheduling, budgeting and performance measurement.

Responsibilities

• Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel equipment, materials, and services are provided as needed.
• Keeps management appraised of potential schedule or fiscal problems by tracking, reviewing and evaluating plans, schedules and/or budgets for inaccuracies, inconsistencies or interface/support problems.
• Generates manufacturing work orders using Material Requirement Planning (MRP) planned order requirements as well as generating purchase requisitions for outside process and outside manufacturing services.
• Processes work orders and material transactions for non-conformance material dispositions. Interprets engineering change orders (ECO), implement dispositions affecting stock, work in progress, and NEXT assembly.
• Schedules equipment and personnel, confirm material supply and demands, prepares purchase orders. Provides budgeting input and program funding tracking and pursuit.
• Alerts and/or recommend solutions to operating or project management to deviation from established norms. Prepares milestone coordination and reports.
• Develops and monitors overhead, capital, research and development, marketing and other budgets.
• Interfaces with operating and support groups (Purchasing, Finance, QA) to collect data for preparation of schedules and reports as well as providing status reports to internal and external contacts. Works in close coordination with outside fabricators and processors.
• May provide work directions to professional and/or support personnel.
• Responsible for observing all laws, regulations and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Budgeting

Performance measurement

Leadership

Communication

Confidentiality

DoD clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration

Tools

MRP systems

Job description

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) seeks a planning and scheduling professional to support major projects by coordinating production schedules, material requirements and budgeting.

You will work with Purchasing, Finance and QA to ensure timely material flow and accurate reporting. Required is a bachelor's degree in business administration with planning/production emphasis and six+ years in planning, scheduling and performance measurement, with DoD clearance.