Senior Associate Production Planning

L3Harris Technologies • Huntsville, AL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Senior Associate, Production Scheduler to join the Production Scheduling team in the Program Performance organization at its Missile Solutions Sector Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The organization supports activities from proposal through product delivery, and the role interfaces directly with internal and external customers across a diverse product range.

The successful candidate will be analytical, self-motivated, and organized, with the ability to assess requirements and make data-driven decisions. The position works with production teams and cross-functional partners to maintain schedules, manage capacity, identify risks and discrepancies, and support customer commitments. The schedule is a first-shift 4/10 schedule: four 10-hour workdays per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of prior manufacturing experience; alternatively, a graduate degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior manufacturing experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 6 years of prior manufacturing experience.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Technical knowledge of propulsion, explosive and pyrotechnic devices, tactical weapons, missile and munitions fuzes, and strategic deterrence.
• Experience with Oracle, Delmia, or Windchill.
• Ability to use technical knowledge and experience to evaluate plans, processes, and supporting-team results.
• Excellent communication skills, self-motivation, and strong leadership skills, including the ability to interpret program management, engineering, and supplier demands in a continuously changing environment with minimal guidance.
• Working knowledge of project management methods in the defense acquisition environment, including program planning, integrated master scheduling, and budgeting.
• Experience with team building, leadership, and delegation to achieve project objectives.
• Experience leading, encouraging, reviewing, and critiquing supporting team members’ work to maximize program success.
• Ability to define and negotiate task objectives, scope descriptions, and completion criteria for specific and broad activities.
• Working capability with office computer programs, including MS PowerPoint for presentations and logic diagrams, MS Project for basic scheduling, MS Excel for formulas, graphing, and spreadsheet development, and MS Word for tables and program plans.

Responsibilities

• Create and communicate shop production schedules and dispatch lists to prioritize hardware for work centers according to schedule demands.
• Partner with the Area Manager to manage workload order and hardware execution.
• Perform comprehensive schedule assessments and identify schedule risk at the operation level.
• Analyze near- and long-term load reviews to identify schedule valleys or peaks, using Capacity Qlik and Power BI applications and throughput metrics to balance the schedule and minimize or reduce bow waves and bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with the Integrated Product Team (IPT) to address issues, solve problems, and develop strategies to meet customer commitments.
• Identify and analyze discrepancies or gaps between the Program IMS and production status.
• Understand key metric outputs, articulate discrepancies, and drive gaps to closure.
• Support Sales Inventory Operation Planning (SIOP) activities by analyzing and preparing data.

What This Job Offers

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