Senior Supply Chain Planner

Amca•El Segundo, CA

3d•$110,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

Amca is building America’s new industrial base by rapidly developing and manufacturing critical components and subsystems for aviation and military systems. We operate seven factories nationwide and deliver components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams. Amca is building its own ERP system and the MRP that will run inside it. We need a senior supply chain planner to help us get MRP right. You will bring the judgment that comes from having planned for real production and apply it to how the system handles demand, BOMs, lead times, and order policies. You will write the planning requirements, work directly with the engineers building the system, and test MRP outputs to continually improve them. The rest of the job is one you already know. You will own the master production schedule for El Segundo, maintain the BOMs and planning parameters MRP runs on, and release clean purchase signals to buyers. If the MRP outputs need manual correction before release, you will also correct what caused the signal to be wrong in the first place. As Amca's homegrown ERP scales across our factories, the planning processes you define in El Segundo are the ones the rest of the company will inherit.

Requirements

5+ years in production planning, materials planning, master scheduling, or supply chain systems in a manufacturing environment
Experience through at least one ERP or MRP implementation, migration, or major reconfiguration, in a role where you fundamentally shaped how planning worked
Demonstrated ownership of a master production schedule or a significant planning segment
Deep MRP fluency, including how the plan calculates what to buy against what you already have, how order policies and planning settings behave, and what breaks downstream when they are set wrong
Working knowledge of BOMs and how engineering changes flow through them
Precise and detail-driven, willing to run a discrepancy down until you know what caused it
Direct communicator who can hold a position with engineers and thrives when the plan changes
Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR (U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, or protected person status)

Nice To Haves

Aerospace, defense, or precision manufacturing background
Experience writing requirements for planning software with an engineering team
Planning across multiple sites or factories in a multi-entity organization
Familiarity with configuration control, effectivity dates, and engineering change orders
SQL, Power BI, or exposure to capacity planning

Responsibilities

Own the planning requirements for Amca's custom MRP, covering how demand is calculated against inventory and open orders, how BOMs and revision effectivity are handled, and how lead times, order policies, exception logic, and RFPO release should work
Work alongside the engineering team through design, build, and release, and build planning logic that will survive contact with reality
Test new functionality against real builds and real data, define the acceptance criteria, and find the failure cases before they reach production
Define our planning processes, standards, and documentation as Amca scales to more factories
Own the master production schedule for El Segundo, setting build sequence, quantities, and dates against customer commitments and factory capacity
Review MRP output after each automated run and release requests for purchase order (RFPOs) with enough lead time for buyers to act
Pull orders in and push them out as priorities shift, and escalate early when the schedule is not achievable
Own the lead times, order policies, safety stock, lot sizes, yields, and part statuses that MRP depends on
Create, maintain, and audit BOMs so they match what the floor builds and what supply chain buys, and drive engineering change through the system as revisions move
Reconcile inventory records to cycle counts, WIP, receipts, and MRB
Drive the number of exceptions and manual overrides toward zero by correcting the root cause in the data or the process, so the same problem stops resurfacing and the signal can be trusted on its face
Release RFPOs early enough to act on, with the part, date, build, and slack a buyer needs to prioritize
Work with production, manufacturing engineering, and program teams on build feasibility, new part introduction, and revision changes
Flag shortages, long lead exposure, and schedule risk early, naming parts, dates, and impact
Set the bar for the planners who follow you, through the standards you write and the people you train