Production Planner Level 4

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Clearfield, UT +1 · Manufacturing and Production

This role is for a Production Planner Level 4 at Northrop Grumman, focusing on manufacturing planning for aircraft production, including composite, metallic, and assembly operations. Responsibilities include planning fabrication, assembly, and installation sequences, determining tooling needs, preparing shop work orders, and maintaining progress reports. Requires a Secret clearance and experience with aerospace specifications and drawings.

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

  • High School diploma or equivalent and 6 years of experience
  • Experience in working with aerospace specifications and drawings.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office applications.
  • Active U.S. Government Secrete Clearance
  • Ability to obtain Special Program Access (PAR).
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access Clearance prior to start.

Nice to have

  • Experience authoring manufacturing procedures.
  • Pursuing Bachelors STEM Degree
  • Experience working in an aerospace manufacturing environment.
  • Experience creating and maintaining MBOMs.
  • Experience in the areas of composite hand layup, bonding, cure, fastened assembly, subsystems installation, metallic hardware or machining experience.
  • Functional knowledge of production control systems (SAP/Visual Mfg/etc)
  • Preference will be given to individuals already accessed to Special Access Programs
  • Experience in the use of CAD software

What the JD emphasized

  • Active U.S. Government Secrete Clearance in order to apply.
  • Ability to obtain Special Program Access (PAR).
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access Clearance prior to start.