Sr Principal Production Planner and Scheduler

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Cape Canaveral, FL +1 · Manufacturing and Production

This role is for a Sr. Production Planner and Scheduler at Northrop Grumman, focusing on planning and analyzing manufacturing and material procurement schedules to meet assembly demands and program goals. It involves managing enterprise resource planning, material masters, purchase requisitions, and production routings, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve schedule and material issues. The role requires experience in capacity planning, production planning in a heavy fabrication and machining environment, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Plan and analyze strategic manufacturing schedules, enterprise resource planning, and material procurement schedules based on the needs of assembly demands, component replenishments, substitute parts or materials, production set-ups, engineering changes, and enterprise supplies to support program goals and contract deliverables.
  2. Supports programs from their inception with requests for pricing information, to their end with reconciliation efforts.
  3. Review make/buy product structures and machine capacity to determine if Outside Vendor (OV) sourcing is needed. Set up, develop, and maintain material masters, purchase requisitions, production routings, delivery documentation, and OV requirements in SAP. Collaborates cross-functionally with GSC, Quality, Production, and Program teams if OV issues/delays arise.
  4. Ensures quality conformance by reviewing parts lists, drawings, and Bill of Materials to ensure configuration requirements are met at the end product. The incumbent will resolve schedule, material requirement, or business system problems with cross-functional representatives, approve part or material requisitions, and initiate production and purchase change orders. The incumbent may additionally resolve master schedules, production problems, and negotiate lead times. Critical thinking skills to resolve ad hoc and systematic challenges are necessary.
  5. Develop and maintain a sound manufacturing schedule of assigned programs and processes by reviewing the MBOM structure, raw material requirements, semi-finished goods, and assembly lead times, bottleneck resources, inventory reservations, and pegging and other relevant data elements to ensure the end product will meet the program's internal schedule.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of related experience
  • Proficient in SAP or ERP/MRP II
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Project
  • Experience capacity planning in a bottleneck constrained environment
  • Experience with supporting the initiation document of the Master Production Schedules (MPS) in coordination with material requirements
  • Experience with preparing work orders or purchase requests for production
  • Experience in production planning in a heavy fabrication and machining environment
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US government Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree with 6 years of related experience
  • PhD with 4 years of related experience
  • SAP S/4HANA (S4)/PEO
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related area
  • APICS (ASCM) Certification or APICS training
  • Production planning experience in a heavy fabrication and machining environment
  • Experience in low-volume, high-mix manufacturing
  • Understanding of value stream mapping and lean principles
  • Experience with data mining, Oracle, and SharePoint

What the JD emphasized

  • Critical thinking skills to resolve ad hoc and systematic challenges are necessary.