Production Planner

Title: Planner

Location: Redmond, Washington

Duration: 4 months +extensions 

Compensation: 32-35hr 

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Skillset / Experience: 

Planner 

 *2nd Shift*:

Sun - Wed 2nd Shift 5:00PM - 3:30AM 

Wed - Sat 2nd Shift 5:00PM - 3:30AM 

 

Job Description: This is a role that will streamline the movement of parts between departments, areas, processes, and systems and be a creator of the systems necessary to minimize overhead, reduce non-value-add processes, improve on-time delivery of product to downstream customers, and invent methods for flexible but efficient production.

This will require a knowledgeable person of many aspects of aerospace production, including traceability, demand planning, flexible but efficient change management, broad aerospace assembly, testing, and handling requirements, application of six sigma and lean methodologies while enabling faster design changes and improvements and reducing the need for reviews, approvals, and manual interactions.

Key job responsibilities
Work cross functionally to develop and improve production scheduling tools and WIP tracking.
Develop processes/strategies to handle work order material discrepancies within production cells.
Coordinate the schedule, plan, and initial staging of material/kits to all vital areas of production and test.
Monitor, track, and move parts as required through the production flow to ensure timely delivery to next production location.
Coordinate physical movement of parts from warehouse through production resources.
Ensure parts are handled and protected properly.
Work with the planning to resolve immediate floor shortages on work orders.
Work with planning and production personnel to maintain floor stock inventory as required
Move parts electronically through the MES system at transaction points
Work with production personnel to ensure schedule/metric goals are understood.
Support logistics process through innovative staging of workflow as required.
Support management of material certifications as required - prevent use of un-certified materials.
Support production and inventory personnel with “return to stock” and inventory purge actions.
Support assigned production cells with work order management activities as required.
Communicate part status and estimated completion dates to leadership weekly.
Assist production leadership and project teams with action item updates as required.
Develop and maintain reports to highlight needs, deliverables and constraints as required for internal and customer use.

About the team
This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with leaders in multiple technology areas. You’ll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to remove non-value-add operations, reduce down-time, improve quality of the products, and reduce lead-time of builds and tests. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Basic qualifications
High school diploma or equivalency certificate.
3+ years of experience in a manufacturing or administrative environment.
1+ years experience with MRP/ERP systems.
Preferred qualifications
5+ years of experience handling parts in a manufacturing setting.
Strong computer skills, familiar with SAP ERP/MES and the full suite of MS Office products.
Bachelor’s degree.
Experience in organizing files and documents.
Inventory experience.
Experience in aerospace, military, automotive, semiconductor, or electronic manufacturing environments.
SQL and Tableau experience.
APICS certification.

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