Strategic Production Planner - MRP & Operations

Leonardo DRS; Fort Walton Beach (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Company health savings account

401(k) plan

Flexible 9/80 schedule

Telemedicine

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Legal insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible work schedule (9/80)

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Community service hours

Job summary

Leonardo DRS, Inc. in Fort Walton Beach, FL, is seeking a Planner (Contract) to manage MPS-driven production schedules, sequence jobs, and balance workloads across workstations.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of planning experience, strong Excel/MRP skills, and the ability to collaborate with Contracts, Project Accounting, and PM teams to meet material and delivery goals.

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.
• Skilled in the use of Excel, Excel Pivot Tables, Power Point, Word, as well as Sharepoint.
• 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

Excel

Pivot Tables

PowerPoint

Word

SharePoint

MRP systems

Production planning

Project material management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SharePoint

Excel Pivot Tables

PowerPoint

Word

SharePoint

Job description

Leonardo DRS, Inc. in Fort Walton Beach, FL, is seeking a Planner (Contract) to manage MPS-driven production schedules, sequence jobs, and balance workloads across workstations.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of planning experience, strong Excel/MRP skills, and the ability to collaborate with Contracts, Project Accounting, and PM teams to meet material and delivery goals.