Senior Specialist, Production Planning

L3HHCM20•Wilmington, MA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Planning organization is looking for an individual who can effectively bridge gaps and solve operational problems, in support of meeting customer commitments. In this position, the candidate will coordinate with several internal departments to create and maintain an accurate manufacturing execution plan and help ensure that the manufacturing team gets the parts they need when they need them. It will be important in this role to manage several internal suppliers and coordinate with several internal customers to understand the requirements, limitations, and problems associated with the manufacturing phase of a development program. It is a fast paced, constantly changing, and challenging role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Ability to obtain security clearance.

Nice To Haves

APICS, Lean, and Six Sigma training.
Experience with ERP implementations and/or Cincom Control and Agile/PDM systems.
Experience in a manufacturing environment as an ops manager, production planner, or manufacturing engineer.
Possess strong analytical, time management, and organizational skills.
Ability to multi-task and communicate cross-functionally.
Knowledge of inventory, planning, supply chain, and configuration management.

Responsibilities

Developing and maintaining manufacturing execution schedules throughout the planning and execution phases of the manufacturing process.
Coordinate with internal suppliers, such as Material Management and Design Engineering to ensure material and labor is available to meet internal and external customer commitments.
Prioritizing day-to-day activities of the manufacturing and material flow processes, measuring success and failure to the plan, communicate status to program and management.
Develop unique solutions to manufacturing problems by working closely with other Operations functions including Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and technical personnel on other programs.
Coordinate with manufacturing shared services Manage internal value add/work in process parts.
Coordinate with internal suppliers to ensure build documentation meets program and quality requirements.
Support timely analysis and implementation on Engineering Change Orders.
Utilize ERP data to identify potential schedule and/or data integrity problems along with metric-based performance.