Production Planner 2/3

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Iuka, MS +1 · Manufacturing and Production

This role is for a Production Planner at Northrop Grumman, supporting manufacturing planning for aircraft production. Responsibilities include planning fabrication, assembly, and installation operations, preparing shop work orders, and maintaining progress reports. The role requires experience with aerospace specifications and drawings, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Plans sequence of fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations relating to specific portion of the product for guidance of production workers
  2. Plans detail operations from blueprints, engineering orders, change notices, and other engineering releases.
  3. Determines the need for tooling and makes recommendations for the design and planning of required tools.
  4. Prepares shop work orders for materials and product processing and coordinates with schedulers to ensure that items are being processed according to specifications and time requirements.
  5. Maintains progress reports, schedules, and other related records.

Skills

Required

  • aerospace specifications and drawings
  • Microsoft Office applications
  • Active U.S. Government Secrete Clearance
  • Special Program Access (PAR) Clearance

Nice to have

  • manufacturing procedures
  • Bachelors STEM Degree
  • aerospace manufacturing environment
  • MBOMs
  • composite hand layup
  • bonding
  • cure
  • fastened assembly
  • subsystems installation
  • metallic hardware
  • machining experience
  • production control systems (SAP/Visual Mfg/etc)
  • CAD software

What the JD emphasized

  • Ability to obtain and maintain Active U.S. Government Secrete Clearance
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (PAR) Clearance