MRP Principal Production Planner and Scheduler

Northrop Grumman • Sunnyvale, CA

2d • $85,600 - $128,400

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Principal MRP Planner to join its Marine Systems team in Sunnyvale, California. Marine Systems develops, manufactures, assembles, and tests missile launching and handling systems, propulsion systems, and power generation systems for naval surface ships and submarines.

The role plans and analyzes manufacturing schedules, enterprise resource planning, and material procurement schedules to meet assembly demand, replenishment needs, production requirements, engineering changes, and program goals. It supports programs from pricing requests through closeout and reconciliation. The planner maintains material and production information in SAP, evaluates sourcing and capacity needs, supports supplier issue resolution, and works with cross-functional teams to ensure product configuration and quality requirements are met.

The position also develops and maintains manufacturing schedules by analyzing material requirements, lead times, constrained resources, inventory, and other planning data. It participates in scheduling reviews and supports program management, global supply chain, and operations scheduling teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience using advanced Microsoft Office applications, including Excel PivotTables and VLOOKUPs, and analyzing large data sets.
• Experience with capacity planning in a bottleneck-constrained environment.
• U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related area.
• APICS certification or APICS training.
• Production planning experience in a heavy fabrication and machining environment.
• Experience in low-volume, high-mix manufacturing.
• Experience with value stream mapping and lean principles.
• Experience with data mining, Oracle, and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Plan and analyze manufacturing schedules, enterprise resource planning, and material procurement schedules based on assembly demand, component replenishments, substitute parts or materials, production setups, engineering changes, and enterprise supplies.
• Support programs from requests for pricing information through completion and reconciliation.
• Review make-or-buy product structures and machine capacity to determine whether outside-vendor sourcing is needed.
• Set up, develop, and maintain material masters, purchase requisitions, production routings, delivery documentation, and outside-vendor requirements in SAP.
• Collaborate with global supply chain, quality, production, and program teams to address outside-vendor issues and delays.
• Review parts lists, drawings, and bills of materials to ensure configuration requirements are met in the end product.
• Resolve schedule, material requirement, and business system problems with cross-functional representatives.
• Approve part or material requisitions and initiate production and purchase change orders.
• Resolve master schedule and production problems and negotiate lead times.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing schedules by reviewing manufacturing bill-of-material structures, raw material requirements, semifinished goods, assembly lead times, bottleneck resources, inventory reservations, pegging, and other relevant data.
• Participate in scheduling reviews with operations management.
• Support manufacturing program management, global supply chain, and operations scheduling teams.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.
• Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior