Program Planner

Divergent•Long Beach, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies. Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built. The Program Planner works closely with Program Managers (PMs), engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to build and maintain program schedules from the proposal stage through part release and delivery. The role ensures that design, release, and supply-chain activities are synchronized to achieve program success. As Divergent scales across multiple material systems and multiple factories, this role also builds the planning processes that make that scale repeatable. The Program Planner develops and documents standard approaches for planning programs that span more than one material technology and more than one production site — including the inter-factory logistics, material movement, and hand-off points that connect them. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, detail-oriented, hands-on, and able to respond quickly in a fast-moving environment. We value leadership skills and those who conduct all activities with the highest integrity.

Requirements

Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
A proven, progressing track record in planning, operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, or consulting
Experience building and maintaining integrated program schedules with defined milestones, dependencies, and critical path
Exposure to planning or coordinating work across more than one production site, process, or material system, including the movement of material between them
Experience using Microsoft Office
Solid interpersonal skills, motivated self-starter who can manage personal workload and execution to tight schedule

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience in a start-up, consulting, or similar high-growth, fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
Direct experience planning multi-site or multi-factory manufacturing programs, including inter-site logistics, transit and customs lead times, and buffer strategy
Experience across more than one manufacturing process family (for example additive, casting, machining, composites, extrusion, or joining) and an understanding of how their lead times and qualification paths differ
Experience writing, rolling out, and driving adoption of new planning or supply-chain processes and work instructions — not only executing existing ones
Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems and project scheduling tools (for example Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or Primavera)
Collaborated successfully in a team environment to ensure cross-functional requirements are met
Advanced Excel skills; comfort with data and visualization tools (SQL, Power BI, Tableau) a plus
Strong communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills

Responsibilities

Partner with PMO and engineering during the proposal phase to develop detailed schedules (including design and release milestones).
Continuously update the schedule as design progresses and communicate changes to all stakeholders.
Monitor real-time progress against the schedule, flag variances, and work with engineering leads to implement corrective actions that keep part release on-time.
Build and maintain multi-material program plans that account for the differing lead times, qualification paths, and process maturity of each material system, and sequence work so that the governing material constraint drives the schedule rather than surprising it late.
Develop the planning processes for programs that build across multiple factories — defining how scope is allocated between sites, how schedules stay synchronized, and how capacity, tooling, and material are balanced across the network.
Plan the inter-factory logistics that connect multi-site programs, including material and sub-assembly movement, transit and customs lead times, packaging and containerization needs, and buffer and inventory placement between sites.
Define and document the hand-off points and data requirements between sites and material streams (routings, work-center definitions, traveler and revision control) so that a part released at one factory can be planned and built at another without rework.
Maintain and/or collaborate with data teams for the development of tools necessary to professionally report out on status and health of relevant programs, including visibility that rolls up across materials, sites, and logistics lanes.
Participate in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings to ensure demand, supply, and production plans are synchronized across sales, engineering, and manufacturing — and across sites as the factory network grows.
Identify gaps in the scheduling or supply-chain processes, propose enhancements, and apply lessons-learned to future programs.
Codify what works into repeatable, documented planning standards that scale to new materials, new factories, and new programs.
Other duties as required to achieve 99% on-time delivery.