Job Title: Material Requirements Planning Specialist (Hybrid)
Location: Lexington MA
Job Type: W2 Contract
Background/Need:
The Group seeks a talented creative and motivated Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Planner to strengthen the Group’s ability to provide rapid and innovative fabrication solutions. The successful candidate will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team consisting of program teams internal shop operations external vendors and other group members to lead end toend assembly of customdesigned PCB assemblies for prototype systems. The successful candidate has the ability to work in many exciting areas such as procurement fabrication and assembly program management research and technology development and operations management. The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a stateof theart fabrication capability through the implementation of advanced digital engineering processes and the design of a new engineering and prototyping facility.
Responsibilities/Duties:
• Oversee endtoend of procurement fabrication and assembly jobs working closely with shop supervisors vendors and engineering teams.
• Demonstrate ownership and responsiveness to ensure quality parts are delivered on time to meet program schedules.
• Review engineering drawings and Bills of Materials assess need dates cost lead time feasibility to meet design requirements and readiness to start build.
• Drive procurement and assembly start to meet program schedules.
• Lead make/buy decisions for PCB assemblies with shop supervisors and engineering team.
• Collaborate with the engineering team on assembly procedure development and generate route information to properly plan fabrication/assembly steps.
• Develop initial delivery dates based on historical data feedback from vendors and supervisors scheduling tools and program schedules.
• Work with the engineering team to provide forecasts of upcoming work and update priority jobs for internal shops.
• Report on job status to the engineering team especially critical path components and assemblies.
• Utilize existing processes and systems such as SAP to properly enter all transactions and report status.
• Drive all vendor related activities to ensure successful part delivery..
• Assist management team with continual improvement of both internal and external fabrication processes and utilization of new digital engineering tools.
• Apply exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate ability to thrive in a fastpaced engineering environment.
Must Have:
• Digital engineering methodologies and data systems.
• Electronic components planning sourcing and procurement.
• PCB assembly planning routing tracking and production control.
• Conducting manufacturability reviews of PCB assemblies.
• Handson experience machining customdesigned parts.
• SAP SolidWorks SolidWorks or other mechanical CAD software model based de nition and product lifecycle management tools.
• Aerospace or national laboratory materials management.
Education & Experience: Bachelor's with 5 years of relevant work experience.
Work Authorization: US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the work.