Senior Manufacturing Planning Specialist

General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc•Taunton, MA

About The Position

Imagine a world-class engineering environment. Now add a team of exceptional talent along with technologies that are so advanced they’re often classified. That’s what you’ll find at General Dynamics Mission Systems. Here you’ll lead amazing engineers as they invent the technologies, products and services that help our service members, intelligence analysts and first responders keep our nation safe. If you want the chance to lead, it’s time to bring your talent to General Dynamics Mission Systems. We apply advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, AR/VR, Cloud Native and Quantum Physics to solve our customers’ missions in cyber, RF, undersea, interstellar and everything in between. As a Senior Manufacturing Planning Specialist, you’ll utilize your skills and talents to represent the production and material planning function on concurrent engineering teams. Essentially, you’ll compile and monitor monthly production schedules, create complex material structures in the material planning tool and identify process flow improvements and implement. You’ll also prepare labor and material forecasts as requested and interface periodically with supply chain or suppliers on delivery issues and problem resolution. Overview: the Manufacturing Planning specialist will be responsible for the planning of production builds across multiple programs, both on-site and supporting activities at non-Manufacturing sites the department supports. This position will develop and maintain material status, work-in-progress status, delivery status and present the data to the cross-functional teams. The Manufacturing Planning Specialist will be embedded with the Deputy Program Manager of Operations, Material Procurement Specialist and Manufacturing directly on a daily basis, working to release assemblies to the production floor to meet program needs. Additionally, this role will have interact directly with Engineering, Quality, Logistics and the Program Office.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent plus a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree
An exceptional understanding of bill of material concepts and methodologies
Solid understanding of the proposal process for both material and labor estimating
Extremely proficient with material planning tools
Department of Defense Secret security clearance is preferred at time of hire. Candidates must be able to obtain a Secret clearance within a reasonable amount of time from date of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Ability to mentor and help grow junior team members
Understanding of earned value management and/or product costing
Outstanding communication skills
Commitment to ongoing professional development

Responsibilities

Maintain and fully understand Supply and Demand relationships in MRP System for each program (IFS)
Maintain and fully understand BOM (Bill of Material) for each program within the MRP System (IFS)
Maintaining the parent/child and make/buy relationship for each BOM component within IFS
Release purchase requisitions to the SCM buying team on time, taking into account material lead times and assembly need dates
Prepare material status based on indented BOM to understand material clear dates for each level of assembly
Present status weekly to Deputy Program Manager of Operations and Program Office
Work closely with Material Procurement Specialist to develop need dates for assembly activities
Release shop orders to manufacturing to maintain the MPS (Master Production Schedule)
Identify material issues early to allow time to resolve
Maintain and track all material changes for both Make and Buy components and flow down changes to procurement and manufacturing
Work with Deputy Program Manager of Operations to identify opportunities to build early
Maintain NHA (Next Higher Assembly) and WIP (Work In Progress) status
Routinely maintain shop orders, purchase requisitions and BOM's within IFS
Work with Manufacturing Engineering to develop shop order operations for each assembly
Work with Quality Engineering on quality flow downs to suppliers and the manufacturing floor
Assist Material Procurement Specialist with material coordination
Coordinate with Manufacturing Operations on capacity and build schedules
Work to identify material opportunities; transferring vs procuring
Resolve discrepant material occurrences with Material Procurement Specialist and Deputy Program Manager of Operations