Master Planner

Saronic Technologies•Brownsville, TX

11d

About The Position

The Master Planner owns the overall flow of ship construction across the shipyard, mapping how vessels move through work stations and maintaining the integrated master schedule that connects trades, programs, and facility constraints. The role defines critical path activities and schedule windows for multi-ship vessel programs, working closely with the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering and the Facilities team. The schedule must reflect actual station capacity, resource constraints, and sequencing dependencies while remaining ambitious, achievable, and current as programs evolve. The Master Planner develops ship plans and integrated schedules, coordinates work-station capabilities and restrictions, and identifies schedule risks and resource conflicts. The role also supports scenario planning and establishes planning standards, milestone definitions, and reporting cadence.

Requirements

Hands-on experience in shipyard production planning, scheduling, or master planning, ideally across multiple ship programs.
Demonstrated experience building and maintaining an integrated master schedule using CPM-based scheduling tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar.
Understanding of the full ship construction flow: fabrication, subassembly, unit, block, erection, outfitting, launch, and delivery.
Strong analytical skills in critical-path analysis, schedule risk assessment, and capacity/throughput planning.
Strong communication skills to present schedule risks and tradeoffs clearly to a range of stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience across multi-ship or multi-program shipbuilding construction.
Experience with PLM/ERP systems and data integration between scheduling tools and production systems.
Familiarity with classification society and program milestones, such as keel lay, launch, trials, and delivery.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, industrial engineering, or a related field.
Experience building schedule-health reporting such as dashboards, S-curves, and milestone trackers.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the ship plan showing how each vessel in a multi-ship program moves through the yard's work stations.
Define work-station sequencing and loading across concurrent ship builds, balancing throughput against physical capacity.
Identify where work for one hull competes with another for the same station, crane, or resource.
Build and maintain the integrated master schedule, tying structural, piping, electrical, HVAC, machinery, and outfitting work into a coherent timeline.
Work with the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering to define critical-path activities and schedule windows for each ship and program.
Keep the schedule current as progress, engineering changes, and resourcing decisions change the plan.
Coordinate with Facilities to understand each work station's physical capabilities and restrictions, including size, weight, crane capacity, access, and utilities.
Ensure the ship plan reflects what each station can deliver and resolve facility or capacity constraints through resequencing or schedule adjustment.
Monitor schedule health, flag slippage and resource conflicts to leadership, and support what-if scenario planning for schedule compression, added ships, or facility changes.
Establish planning standards, milestone definitions, and reporting cadence across the organization.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical insurance; Saronic pays 100% of the employee premium and 80% of dependent premiums.
Dental and vision insurance; Saronic pays 100% of the basic-plan employee premium and 80% of dependent premiums.
Generous paid time off and holidays.
Paid maternity and paternity leave.
Competitive salary with opportunities for performance-based bonuses.
401(k) plan with company match.
Stock options.
Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
Discounted pet insurance options, including a 24/7 Telehealth helpline.
Free lunch benefit and unlimited free drinks and snacks in the office.