Program Planner

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Partner with PMO and engineering during the proposal phase to develop detailed schedules (including design and release milestones).
• Monitor real-time progress against the schedule, flag variances, and work with engineering leads to implement corrective actions that keep part release on-time.
• Build and maintain multi-material program plans that account for the differing lead times, qualification paths, and process maturity of each material system, and sequence work so that the governing material constraint…
• Develop the planning processes for programs that build across multiple factories — defining how scope is allocated between sites, how schedules stay synchronized, and how capacity, tooling, and material are balanced…
• Plan the inter-factory logistics that connect multi-site programs, including material and sub-assembly movement, transit and customs lead times, packaging and containerization needs, and buffer and inventory placement…
• Define and document the hand-off points and data requirements between sites and material streams (routings, work-center definitions, traveler and revision control) so that a part released at one factory can be planned…
• Maintain and/or collaborate with data teams for the development of tools necessary to professionally report out on status and health of relevant programs, including visibility that rolls up across materials, sites, and…
• Participate in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings to ensure demand, supply, and production plans are synchronized across sales, engineering, and manufacturing — and across sites as the factory network grows.

Job requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• A proven, progressing track record in planning, operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, or consulting
• Experience building and maintaining integrated program schedules with defined milestones, dependencies, and critical path
• Exposure to planning or coordinating work across more than one production site, process, or material system, including the movement of material between them
• Experience using Microsoft Office
• Solid interpersonal skills, motivated self-starter who can manage personal workload and execution to tight schedule
• Demonstrated experience in a start-up, consulting, or similar high-growth, fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Direct experience planning multi-site or multi-factory manufacturing programs, including inter-site logistics, transit and customs lead times, and buffer strategy