Director, Production Planning

Job Title: Director Production Planning - (Scheduling/Material Planning)

Job Code: 40397

Job Location: Camden AR

Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days 4 days a week

Job Description:

L3 Harris Technologies is seeking a Director Scheduling/Material Planning/Logistics located in Camden AR. This person will lead a team of Logistics Scheduling and Material Management professionals. This leader will lead a team responsible for demand/material planning production scheduling logistics and production scheduling.

Essential Functions:

Manages experienced professionals or team(s) led by lower level supervisors or managers. Often leads one or more teams or a department. Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for team or department to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results. Has hiring firing promotion and compensation authority within own organization in accordance with management review and approval. Reports to the Site Lead.

Requires broad management and cross-functional leadership knowledge and mastery level knowledge within a specific technical area or broad expertise across multiple related job areas.

o Production Scheduling: Ensures Master Production Scheduling demand is properly loaded & actively maintained in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system

Detailed scheduling context and analysis to production and support areas; Assists in development of scheduling catch back / recovery options

O Demand/Material Planning: Inventory monitoring of on-hand supply in-bound material and in-house WIP vs. ERP demand

Timely issuance of material in alignment with program requirements and shop floor capacity

Controls Inventory Management Material Issue Material Cost Transfers

Release of direct material purchase requisitions

O Production Control - Monitor work order progress & constraints to keep hardware flowing per schedule demands

Coordination of tactical level tasks and issue resolution that may cross-cut multiple COEs

Coordinates the timely ordering / readiness of production support items such as tooling fixtures NC programming to facilitate on-time starts

Conduct resource load analysis & provide resource dispatch

Coordinates final shipping requirements to ensure proper material control

o Oversees Logistics / Material Management

Execute Receipts Kitting to support timely work order release / factory starts

Material handling material movement & ERP system Move Orders

Process Shipping transactions; coordinate material shipments

Cycle Counts physical inventories to include material reconciliation

Validate flow of material to the floor control inventory

o Manages Site Organizational overhead budgets

o Ensure compliance to DFARS and MMAS business systems

o Domestic travel required up to 20%

o Ability to obtain a US secret security clearance

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related Scheduling/ Planning and Logistics experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related lieu of a degree minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Masters Degree considered a plus

Inventory/Material Management certifications (e.g. APICS) considered a plus

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