Senior Manufacturing Planner

Senior Manufacturing Planner

Requirements

• Highschool, GED or equivalent.
• Any years direct manufacturing planning or manufacturing build support experience
• Hardware manufacturing experience with structures, fluid systems, mechanical systems, or avionics systems, including but not limited to: assembly, integration, instrumentation, cleaning, non-destructive testing, leak testing, machining, welding, surface coatings, harness/cable routings, or composite structures.
• Develop manufacturing work instructions to clearly define the following manufacturing process: fabrication, assembly, test, integration, and refurbishment.
• Closely manage quality, build sequence, and schedule of hardware throughout the entire manufacturing process.
• Perform engineering drawing review and provide final approval for manufacturing.
• Define and support repair and rework activities.
• Perform root cause analyses when non-conformances and escapes are identified and deploy corrective actions.
• Design proper material handling and packaging to protect hardware throughout the build and test process.
• Manage hardware configuration and maintain pedigree throughout the entire build and test process.
• Understanding of engineering fundamentals for mechanical design and manufacturing including working knowledge of GD&T.
• Experience prioritizing hardware procurement and fabrication and communicating these priorities to the team.
• Strong written, personal, technical, and software skills (CAD, Scheduling, Issue Tracking, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc).
• Ability to develop processes compliant to industry quality systems such as AS9100.
• Extremely customer focused with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with teams of diverse skills across large geographic distances.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Developing and supporting the fabrication of tooling, prototypes and other development products.
• Leading the development of manufacturing bill of materials, work instructions, design for manufacturability, non-conformance processing, and process specifications.
• Creating, interpreting, and modifying work instructions and routings to convey procedures to technicians and trigger material planning.
• Identifying, developing, and deploying methods to improve quality, reduce cost, and optimize build sequence and schedules.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with aircraft, launch vehicle, spacecraft, or satellite development, production, or operations
• Proficient in writing work instructions at a high pace.
• Self-directed and able to balance several tasks at once
• Proficiency in 3D CAD programs (Creo Pro/E & Catia preferred).
• Must be physically able to: Support production floor activities. Climb stairs and work in small areas. Lift and carry 40 lbs.