Mgr Production Planning Scheduling

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Manager Production Planner and Scheduler – Level 2 to join our team in the Space System business unit. This position will be based in our Englewood, CO facility supporting a range of manufacturing and integration operations.

The production control manager will be over a team that is responsible for a variety of processes, including last mile material coordination, “make” item movement and scheduling, manufacturing order maintenance and scheduling, and material consumption. They also review demand planning systems to ensure needed flight materials are available in inventory and issued to the manufacturing team to support operations.

• →Supervises a team that plans and schedules the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, services, supplies, finished goods and related material through production and inventory processes at the assigned location.
• →With their team, plans, prepares, issues, and controls production manufacturing orders and coordinates with material planning and distribution to ensure a controlled flow and consumption of approved materials timed to meet production requirements.
• →With their team, owns providing the production line with what is needed to execute production (materials, planning, schedules).
• →Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided as needed.
• →Ensure that the MRP demand aligns to the production schedule base on make part management.  Work with other functions to fix and communicate impact of misalignments to operations.
• →Verifies material supply and demands, prepares manufacturing orders to produce components or parts based on MRP demand that aligns with a master production schedule, shop load, and inventory requirements.
• →Supervises a team that coordinates interdepartmental activity with quality assurance, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, traffic, etc.; schedules and expedites the movement of parts by means of move orders, stock transfers, and requests for shipping orders.
• →Identify and manage team member skills and abilities to meet business needs. Creates and drives accountability to standards and key performance metrics.
• →Understand and the budget expectations for the team.  Manage the team to perform within the budget and schedule requirements.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years of relevant work experience in operations planning or production scheduling. Master’s Degree and 6+ years of relevant work experience in operations planning or production scheduling.   In lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of relatable work experience.
• 2+ years of Master scheduling/production scheduling MRP experience (preferably in multiple MRP systems).
• Previous experience leading and managing teams, in a supervisory capacity.
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and quality controls
• Excellent productivity and organizational skills
• Ability to comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance

• Experience working with Costpoint and/or SAP, inventory management, and managing manufacturing orders
• Experience in Aerospace or Defense manufacturing environments
• Familiarity with Government change control procedures (NASA, DoD, Airforce, Navy, etc.)
• Understanding or certification in Lean Manufacturing.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, specifications, and plans
• Proven history of leveraging multiple departments to solve complex issues
• Active US Government clearance