Strategic Satellite Production Planner

Xona Space; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Xona Space is seeking a Production Planner / Scheduler to own the master production schedule for our satellite production facility in Burlingame. You will coordinate work orders, capacity planning, material kitting, and inventory staging to meet the production plan and deliver satellites on time.

You will partner with Supply Chain, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance and Program Management to translate the master plan into actionable releases, monitor WIP, and optimize

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, industrial engineering, operations management, business, or related technical discipline.
• APICS or ASCM certification is desirable.
• Experience in aerospace, satellite, defense, medical device, semiconductor, or other high-complexity manufacturing environments preferred.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a planning, production control, logistics, MRP or inventory management role is essential in a rate-production facility.
• Strong understanding, proficiency and experience with MRP/ERP systems. Intimate with production scheduling, capacity planning and materials management aspects of these digital tools.
• Advanced Excel user, able to extract and interpret digital data from multiple systems to evaluate/monitor/model and improve the production planning processes.
• Has a working understanding of lean manufacturing principles and QMS systems
• Data-driven decision maker, able to anticipate risks to production and supply chain and work to mitigate them before production schedules are impacted.
• Excellent organizational, communication and analytical skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage the master production schedule and coordinated work order releases into the production facility.
• Work in close partnership with the supply chain and materials team to coordinate the work order release, capacity planning, material kitting and inventory staging in accordance with the established production plan.
• Manage all schedule changes/issues and adjustments and perform impact analysis and modelling as needed to best optimize production efficiency.
• Monitor all work-in-progress activities, ensuring that ECO’s, NCR’s or material supplier issues are managed and coordinated swiftly and effectively.
• Manage daily production control as an active participant of shop-floor production stand-up meetings and other scheduled operations reviews.
• Use digital tools: MRP, MES, etc. to optimize production planning activities and schedule coordination across cells/teams/shifts/sites.
• Support both short-term and long-term planning activities, to facilitate effective people and equipment capacity planning and budgeting.
• Actively improve and optimize the planning processes and activities over time in the Xona HQ facility and in close collaboration with the Montreal facility team.

Skills

Data-driven decisions

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, industrial engineering, operations management, business, or related technical discipline

Tools

MRP/ERP systems

Excel

Job description

Xona Space is seeking a Production Planner / Scheduler to own the master production schedule for our satellite production facility in Burlingame. You will coordinate work orders, capacity planning, material kitting, and inventory staging to meet the production plan and deliver satellites on time.

You will partner with Supply Chain, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance and Program Management to translate the master plan into actionable releases, monitor WIP, and optimize