N

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

MRP Principal Production Planner and Scheduler

Production Planning & SchedulingPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeSunnyvale, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Experience using advanced Microsoft Office applications, including Excel PivotTables and VLOOKUPs, and analyzing large data sets.
  • Experience with capacity planning in a bottleneck-constrained environment.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and analyze strategic manufacturing schedules, enterprise resource planning, and material procurement schedules based on assembly demands, component replenishments, substitute parts or materials, production setups, engineering changes, and enterprise supplies to support program goals and contract deliverables.
  • Support programs from their inception, including requests for pricing information, through completion, including reconciliation efforts.
  • Review make-or-buy product structures and machine capacity to determine whether outside-vendor sourcing is needed.
  • Set up, develop, and maintain material masters, purchase requisitions, production routings, delivery documentation, and outside-vendor requirements in SAP.
  • Collaborate with global supply chain, Quality, Production, and Program teams when outside-vendor issues or delays arise.
  • Review parts lists, drawings, and bills of materials to ensure configuration requirements are met in the end product.
  • Resolve schedule, material-requirement, or business-system problems with cross-functional representatives; approve part or material requisitions; initiate production and purchase change orders; resolve master schedules and production problems; and negotiate lead times.
  • Develop and maintain manufacturing schedules for assigned programs and processes by reviewing manufacturing bills of material, raw-material requirements, semi-finished goods and assembly lead times, bottleneck resources, inventory reservations and pegging, and other relevant data to ensure the end product meets the program's internal schedule.
  • Participate in scheduling reviews with Operations management and support manufacturing program management, global supply chain, and operations scheduling teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related area.
  • APICS certification or APICS training.
  • Production planning experience in a heavy fabrication and machining environment.
  • Experience in low-volume, high-mix manufacturing.
  • Experience with value stream mapping and lean principles.
  • Experience with data mining, Oracle, and SharePoint.

About the Company

Northrop Grumman

Builds stealth bombers, missiles, and satellites

Northrop Grumman builds military aircraft, missiles, rocket motors, satellites, and electronic systems, mostly for the American military and allied governments. It designed the B-2 stealth bomber and built NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever sent to space. The company works through four businesses: aircraft, missiles and ammunition, radar and communications systems, and space hardware such as satellites and solid rocket boosters. Most revenue comes from long-term government contracts, many of them classified. Its roots go back to Northrop Aircraft, founded in 1939, and it took its name after buying Grumman in 1994 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Falls Church, VA
Founded
1939

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Northrop Grumman

See more jobs