Strategic Materials & Production Planner

Leonardo DRS; Fort Walton Beach (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Telemedicine

Life and disability insurance

Legal insurance

Flexible 9/80 schedule

Paid parental leave

Community service hours

Job summary

Leonardo DRS is seeking a Production Planner to support the Airborne and Intelligence Systems unit in Fort Walton Beach. The role focuses on selecting and sequencing jobs, coordinating with Contracts, maintaining workload balance, and ensuring materials availability to meet MPS-driven schedules.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of experience, strong Excel and MS Office skills, and a solid understanding of MRP and production planning processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 3 years demonstrated experience.
• Solid understanding of business processes and functional inter-relationships.
• Strong background in project material management.
• Extensive experience in production planning.
• Strong understanding of MRP systems.

Responsibilities

• Based on the MPS driven demand, select and sequence available jobs to be run at specific workstations or machines.
• Meet weekly with Contracts to review all pending and recently received demands and assign planner responsibility to the appropriate individual.
• Manage overall workload and align resources as needed to maintain balance.
• Drive consistent communications between planning, project accounting, and project management for consistent project Material EAC’s and Execution Charts.
• Improve current system, functions, and daily operations to more effectively meet goals.
• Maintain manufacturing build plans on a daily basis.
• Maintain the run and set up times associated with each job / product / part.
• Create and maintain the expected completion of each scheduled job.
• Review the schedule and ensure the raw materials are available when needed to run according to the schedule.
• Create a forward-looking plan to create purchase requisitions and monitor material deliveries to support the run schedules.
• Ensure all outside services are planned and monitored.
• Consolidate demand for purchase requisitions.
• Highlight critical parts and any issue, which may keep operations from meeting the MPS.
• Support, communicate and defend the mission, values and culture of the company.

Skills

Material management

Production planning

MRP systems

Business processes

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Excel

Excel Pivot Tables

PowerPoint

Word

SharePoint

Job description

Leonardo DRS is seeking a Production Planner to support the Airborne and Intelligence Systems unit in Fort Walton Beach. The role focuses on selecting and sequencing jobs, coordinating with Contracts, maintaining workload balance, and ensuring materials availability to meet MPS-driven schedules.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of experience, strong Excel and MS Office skills, and a solid understanding of MRP and production planning processes.