Job Title: Senior Associate Production Planning
Job Code: 23563
Job Location: Huntsville Alabama
Job Schedule:Employees work 9 out of every 14 days totaling 80 hours worked and have every other Friday off
Job Description:
In this role you will be part of our Scheduling and Material Planning organization which plays a key role from proposal to product delivery. We are looking for a highly analytical selfmotivated and organized individual. Candidates will work in a dynamic position with a diverse product range.
Essential Functions:
- 50%
- Review Material Requirements Plan (MRP); problemsolve exception messages.
- Release and Manage Shop Orders for both Bill of Material (BOM) and independent demand requirements.
- Identify and initiate Program Inventory Surplus/Close Out.
- Ensure appropriate inventory levels are maintained to support lean production and coordinate movement to production floor.
- Perform regular inventory reconciliation and counting to ensure inventory accuracy.
- 30% Support Senior Analyst by
- Analyzing program demand for accuracy
- maintain horizontal plan or line of balance for consumable items
- Initiate material transfers
- 20% Perform miscellaneous tasks as assigned to support the specific program efforts.
- Travel regularly to other Aerojet Rocketdyne facilities and suppliers across the country.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior production planning experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 02 years prior production planning experience. In lieu of a degree minimum of 6 years of prior production planning experience.
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Knowledge of supply chain management lean manufacturing assembly and ATP processes.
- Technical knowledge of solid rocket propulsion explosive and pyrotechnic devices electromechanical actuators and actuator control systems preferred.
- Ability to use technical knowledge and experience to evaluate plans processes and results of the supporting team is desired.
- Excellent communication skills selfmotivation strong leadership skills and interpreting program management engineering and supplier demands in a continuously changing environment with minimal guidance.
- Solid working knowledge of project management methods within the defense acquisition environment including program planning integrated master scheduling budgeting and earned value management.
- Ability to implement product design and development stage gate process (reviews for design build and test) is desired.
- Demonstrated abilities in team building leadership and delegation skills to achieve project objectives is desired.
- Experience in leading encouraging reviewing and critiquing work of supporting team members to maximize program success.
- Capable of defining and negotiating task objectives scope description and completion criteria for specific and broad activities as well.
- Working capability in the use of typical office computer programs for conduct of program management such as MS PowerPoint (presentations logic diagrams) MS Project (basic scheduling) MS Excel (entering formulas graphing developing spreadsheets) and MS Word (tables program plans).
Required Experience:
Senior IC