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L3Harris Technologies

Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech

Director of Production Planning

Production Planning & SchedulingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCamden, AR, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree and a minimum of 15 years of prior related scheduling, planning, and logistics experience; alternatively, a graduate degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience, or 19 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Broad management and cross-functional leadership knowledge and mastery-level knowledge in a specific technical area or broad expertise across multiple related job areas.
  • Ability to obtain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of Logistics, Scheduling, and Material Management professionals responsible for demand and material planning, production scheduling, and logistics.
  • Manage experienced professionals or teams led by lower-level supervisors or managers, and lead one or more teams or a department.
  • Create workforce and staffing plans to ensure the department has the human capital needed to achieve business results; exercise hiring, firing, promotion, and compensation authority within the organization, subject to management review and approval.
  • Ensure Master Production Scheduling demand is properly loaded and actively maintained in the Enterprise Resource Planning system.
  • Provide detailed scheduling context and analysis to production and support areas, and assist in developing scheduling catch-back and recovery options.
  • Monitor on-hand supply, inbound material, and in-house work in process against Enterprise Resource Planning demand.
  • Issue material promptly in alignment with program requirements and shop-floor capacity.
  • Control inventory management, material issue, and material cost transfers; release direct-material purchase requisitions.
  • Monitor work-order progress and constraints to keep hardware flowing according to schedule demands.
  • Coordinate tactical-level tasks and resolve issues that cross multiple Centers of Excellence.
  • Coordinate timely ordering and readiness of production-support items, including tooling, fixtures, and numerical-control programming, to facilitate on-time starts.
  • Conduct resource-load analysis and provide resource dispatch.
  • Coordinate final shipping requirements to ensure proper material control.
  • Oversee logistics and material management, including receipts and kitting to support timely work-order release and factory starts.
  • Manage material handling, material movement, and Enterprise Resource Planning system move orders.
  • Process shipping transactions and coordinate material shipments.
  • Conduct cycle counts and physical inventories, including material reconciliation.
  • Validate the flow of material to the floor and control inventory.
  • Manage site organizational overhead budgets.
  • Ensure compliance with DFARS and MMAS business systems.
  • Travel domestically up to 20%.

Desired Qualifications

  • A master's degree is considered a plus.
  • Inventory or material management certifications, such as APICS, are considered a plus.

About the Company

L3Harris Technologies

Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech

L3Harris Technologies provides advanced aerospace, defense, and space systems for governments and commercial customers. Its products include sensors, communications, and propulsion—such as tactical radios, night-vision gear, satellite payloads, missile defense, and space propulsion—delivered as integrated systems for operations across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company blends legacy technologies from two joining giants with newer capabilities, faster acquisition cycles, and a focus on missiles, space, and resilient communications to field solutions quickly. Its goal is to be a trusted, scale-ready provider of next‑generation defense and intelligence capabilities for national security and related customers.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Melbourne, FL
Founded
1895

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