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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Manufacturing
Posted
Aug 5, 2026
Full-time

Production Planner

Job description

Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who…

Job responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end production plans for assigned program(s) and work centers: translate weekly/monthly build targets into daily operator schedules, test capacity, and workstation assignments.
  • Maintain and update production master schedule and short-term shop schedules (0–30 days) to hit weekly build targets and minimize schedule slippage.
  • Measure and drive key outcomes: on-time build completion %, first-pass test yield, WIP days, and shortage-resolution SLA. Own recovery plans when metrics fall below target.
  • Align labor to demand: size daily labor rosters, prioritize cross-trained coverage, and trigger overtime or shift adjustments to meet build targets and reduce bottlenecks.
  • Own material readiness: validate PO receipts, inspection queues, kitting, staging, and feeder-stock to ensure <24–48 hour material gap resolution for daily builds. Escalate critical shortages with proposed mitigations.
  • Manage BOM changes and engineering substitutions in production windows with minimal disruption; implement controlled substitutions and workarounds when approved.
  • Coordinate cross-functionally with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Test, and NPI to remove blockers, sequence builds, and implement permanent fixes for recurring failures.
  • Run daily production cadence (standups, dashboard reviews, escalation), maintain planning artifacts (short-interval schedules, shortage logs, recovery plans), and present weekly performance to stakeholders.
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