Senior Associate, Production Planning

In this role, you will be part of our Scheduling and Material Planning organization which plays a key role from proposal to product delivery. We are looking for a highly analytical, self-motivated, and organized individual. Candidates will work in a dynamic position with a diverse product range.

Essential Functions: 

• 50 - Review Material Requirements Plan (MRP); problem-solve exception messages. Release Supplier Requisitions and Shop Orders for both Bill of Material (BOM) and independent demand requirements. Identify and initiate Program Inventory Surplus/Close Out.
• 30 - Support Senior Analyst. Analyze program demand, create requisitions, maintain horizontal plan or line of balance for consumable items, initiate material transfers, create new Part Numbers, and other as required tasks.
• 20 - Perform miscellaneous tasks as assigned to support the specific program efforts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior production planning experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0-2 years prior production planning experience. In Lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior production planning experience.
• 5. Willingness to travel and flexibility to work extended hours. Must be willing and able to travel regularly to other Aerojet Rocketdyne facilities and suppliers across the country.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Knowledge of supply chain management, lean manufacturing, assembly and ATP processes.
• Technical knowledge of solid rocket propulsion, explosive and pyrotechnic devices, electromechanical actuators and actuator control systems preferred.
• Ability to use technical knowledge and experience to evaluate plans, processes and results of the supporting team is desired.
• Excellent communication skills, self-motivation, strong leadership skills, and interpreting program management, engineering and supplier demands in a continuously changing environment with minimal guidance.
• Solid working knowledge of project management methods within the defense acquisition environment including program planning, integrated master scheduling, budgeting and earned value management.
• Ability to implement product design and development stage gate process (reviews for design, build, and test) is desired.
• Demonstrated abilities in team building, leadership and delegation skills to achieve project objectives is desired.
• Experience in leading, encouraging, reviewing and critiquing work of supporting team members to maximize program success.
• Capable of defining and negotiating task objectives, scope description and completion criteria for specific and broad activities as well. The applicant will be required to coordinate multiple activities simultaneously and to make real-time plan adjustments in response to problems and unexpected interim results.
• Working capability in the use of typical office computer programs for conduct of program management such as MS PowerPoint (presentations, logic diagrams), MS Project (basic scheduling), MS Excel (entering formulas, graphing, developing spreadsheets), and MS Word (tables, program plans).