Production Control Scheduler

PRODUCTION CONTROL SCHEDULER

The Bloomfield site produces specialized soft-good components that are used across all SpaceX major projects (Falcon, Dragon, Starship). Our challenge is to execute many development and production projects in parallel at unrivaled speed. Robust pre-planning and constant change is the norm. As a Production Control Scheduler, you will proactively identify blockers to progress, attack every problem enthusiastically, and remove hurdles. You are a self-starter and team player who has the hunger to venture quickly into unknown areas and solve a problem. Aerospace experience is not required to be successful here - rather, we look for inventive, motivated, collaborative people who respond rapidly to requests.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take complete ownership of production scheduling for a given production work center, including managing tactical day-to-day tasks as well as projecting long-term needs for the department
• Provide tactical and strategic long range scheduling expertise to our production team
• Coordinate and review input from engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and business development to support and maintain master schedules for products using Microsoft Office or applicable software as required
• Work across all departments to understand critical work requests ahead and behind targets to mitigate schedule impact risks
• Work across all departments to ensure MRP dates align with current vehicle products
• Utilize our factory scheduler application and other applicable tools to ensure work is scheduled and prioritized accurately and efficiently, and resources allocated appropriately
• Work with production teams to set, track, and execute daily and weekly goals for the work center
• Prepare daily work schedules, track work progress, update and communicate project critical path schedules, and advise leadership of needed adjustments to daily work activities
• Ensure fixture, tooling, and test equipment requirements are properly scheduled to facilitate an efficient production process
• Support accuracy of internal logistics movement of critical work
• Push/pull work into the shop to improve lead times, reduce stagnation, and meet schedule needs
• Utilize production, operations planning, and engineering support to eliminate internal and external blockers to deliver product on time
• Remain abreast and knowledgeable regarding applicable facilities and manpower
• Lead efforts to uncover root-cause and develop permanent resolution on issues found during product builds as required
• Identify and support improvement opportunities for product yield, quality, safety, cost and team efficiency
• Build strong relationships with customers as well as internal/external suppliers and establish high accuracy means of communication for both estimated hardware needs and completion dates
• Develop and support efforts to streamline assigned products and automate production processes as applicable
• Organize and communicate the daily priorities to production coordinators, team leads and supervisors as required
• Provide daily visibility, weekly status, and monthly reviews on schedule performance
• Create and leverage metrics using queries and Excel to highlight shortages and determine schedule risks
• Drive down near-term and future schedule risk by conducting work-center level capacity analysis, identifying model and communication gaps that cause schedule slips, and leading initiatives (reactive and proactive)
• Coordinate off-site processing of parts to ensure on-time delivery as required

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or equivalency certificate
• 2+ years of manufacturing scheduling experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of professional manufacturing scheduling experience
• 2+ years of experience with MS Office
• 2+ years of practical experience with ERP/MRP systems in a production environment
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Experience writing queries with SQL
• PowerBi/Tableau experience creating dashboards and daily reports
• Familiarity with lean principles, six sigma and Kaizen concepts
• Experience with data analytics
• Experience with problem-solving and root-cause analyzes methodologies
• Project management professional certification

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet major milestones
• Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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