Production Planner (Supply)

CHAOS Industries•El Segundo, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Industries is hiring a Production Planner to own production work order release, queue management, and execution flow in radar and RF manufacturing environments. The role coordinates across Manufacturing Engineering, Lab Supervisors, Production Leads, and Inventory/Material Control to support production rate adherence and milestone execution. The planner maintains and analyzes Line of Balance (LOB), ensures work orders are complete, kitted, technically valid, and configuration-controlled before release, and provides schedule visibility, risk identification, and performance reporting to Operations and Program leadership. The role also supports production ramp and LRIP-to-FRP transitions, configuration verification, and cross-functional production scheduling.

Requirements

Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
5–7+ years of experience in production scheduling, production control, or manufacturing planning.
Experience managing work orders within ERP and/or MES systems.
Working knowledge of bills of material (BOM/MBOM), routing structures, revision control, and the work order lifecycle.
Experience building and maintaining Line of Balance tracking.
Strong analytical capability for schedule performance reporting.
Ability to coordinate across engineering, production, and inventory teams.
U.S. citizenship if required for program access.

Nice To Haves

Experience in aerospace, defense, electronics, or RF/radar production environments.
Experience supporting LRIP or production rate ramps.
Familiarity with serialized hardware tracking, ECO/ECN processes, and configuration-controlled products.
Experience generating executive-level production performance reporting.
Working knowledge of capacity planning concepts, lean manufacturing principles, and production forecasting tools.
Experience with PLM systems integrated with ERP/MES.

Responsibilities

Review and release production work orders in alignment with the master production schedule and program milestones.
Verify work order revision levels, approved MBOM structure, routing accuracy, required documentation, and traveler inclusion.
Ensure ECO/ECN changes are incorporated before release and coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering to resolve discrepancies or missing requirements.
Prevent release of incomplete or non-kitted work orders.
Coordinate daily with Manufacturing Engineers, Lab Supervisors, Production Leads, and Inventory/Material Control.
Prioritize and sequence work orders based on material readiness, capacity constraints, test station availability, and program deadlines.
Monitor work-in-progress levels and aging, identify bottlenecks, and escalate impacts to throughput or milestone delivery.
Support controlled re-prioritization when program or leadership direction changes.
Develop and maintain Line of Balance tracking for radar subsystem and system-level builds.
Monitor build progression against planned rates and milestones, identify planned-versus-actual variances, and provide early warning of schedule slips or capacity shortfalls.
Support rate-ramp analysis and LRIP-to-FRP transition tracking.
Generate and maintain production schedule reports covering work order release versus plan, completion status versus required date, cycle time, WIP aging, and schedule adherence.
Analyze late starts, late completions, rework-driven delays, and material-driven delays; support executive and program-level reporting.
Ensure ERP/MES schedule data integrity.
Coordinate with Inventory and Material Control to confirm full kit availability, validate shortages, substitutions, and serialized component allocation, and stage traceability-controlled hardware.
Escalate material risks affecting Line of Balance.
Verify as-built documentation and traveler completion, including serial number tracking, substitutions, and documented deviations.
Confirm required inspections and quality checkpoints are complete; support configuration audits and program reviews.
Lead or support daily production scheduling reviews and communicate schedule status, risks, and mitigation plans to Operations leadership.
Coordinate rework prioritization without destabilizing production flow and support milestone builds and surge production events.