Planning Engineer

Position Summary

Join an established aerospace manufacturing organization that produces highly engineered components and assemblies for industry-leading customers. This position offers the opportunity to play a critical role in transforming customer requirements into executable manufacturing plans that drive quality, efficiency, and on-time delivery.

As a Planning Engineer, you will work at the center of Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Program Management, helping ensure complex aerospace products are successfully launched and produced. This is a highly visible role where your ability to interpret technical requirements and build effective manufacturing plans directly impacts operational and customer success.

What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out

• Serve as a key link between customers, engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams.
• Work on high-complexity aerospace components and assemblies supporting demanding industry requirements.
• Drive manufacturing strategy by developing travelers, routers, and production plans for precision machining and assembly operations.
• Gain exposure to the full product lifecycle, from contract review and planning through production and delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership teams to solve technical challenges and improve manufacturing performance.
• Influence continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, throughput, cost reduction, and process optimization.
• Participate in risk assessment and mitigation activities that directly support successful program execution.
• Work in a highly regulated environment where attention to detail, technical expertise, and process control are valued and recognized.
• Contribute to customer satisfaction by ensuring manufacturing plans accurately reflect engineering and contractual requirements.
• Join a stable and growing manufacturer that invests in operational excellence, employee development, and long-term customer partnerships.

Core Responsibilities

• Study engineering blueprints, drawings, models, and other specifications to determine customer requirements.
• Review technical and non-technical documents that relate to contracts, specifications, purchasing, product design, manufacture and test and incorporate the requirements into the manufacturing plans.
• Coordinate technical questions, technical developments, scheduling, resolving engineering design and test problems, and corrections with company Dir. of Program Management, Engineering Director, Director of Quality, and the customer or vendor engineering or quality representatives.
• Apply knowledge of functions, and processes of various departments and capacities of machines and equipment to determine the sequence of operations for fabrication or assembly of product.
• Determine if operations require subcontractor involvement. Specify the specific work scope and requirements for all subcontracted operations including flow down of customer requirements.
• List operations to be performed on the traveler, indicate machine or equipment to be used, estimate time to set-up and perform each operation and describe the actions to take place in layman’s terms.
• Specify type of material to be used, determine the material requirements for part fabrication, considering part size, and method of fabrication conferring with NC Programming to ensure part can be held based off method of manufacture.
• Prepare, plan, direct and coordinate Risk Management / Risk Mitigation meetings. Required attendees are Quality Assurance / Contract Review / Engineering / and Production personnel.
• Control expenditures within limitations of project budget.
• Post changes to computerized or manual control records, release documents and notifies affected departments.
• Release travelers and supporting documentation to authorized departments.
• Confer with manufacturing and quality in developing rework plans for nonconforming product.
• Support Manufacturing Operations in daily operations, process improvements, organization, inspection requirements, training, and cost reductions by clarifying requirements and improving manufacturing processes and procedures.
• Compile and maintain control of records relating to customer drawing specifications, part lists, and customer supplied product / process supporting documentation.
• Maintain and control process specification documents and data.
• Act as liaison between company/customer in assuring design intent and customer satisfaction.
• Assist in determining adequate parts inventory requirements for customers.
• Communicate ideas and opinions to other members of leadership.
• Maintains an effective system of communications throughout the organization.
• Ensure employees observe the safety rules and regulations and wear the required safety equipment (PPE).
• Ensure proper documentation and methods use, according to the Quality Management System.
• Support the Quality Management System to assure compliance to quality, industrial and government standards and regulations and customer requirements.
• Adhere to all Quality Management System procedures and instructions.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and orderly work environment.
• Observe the safety rules and regulations and wear the required safety equipment.
• Others may be assigned as needed with or without notice.

Key Selection Criteria

Education and / or Experience:

• Associate degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or two to three years related experience and / or training / or combination of education and experience.
• Must have 3 year of Planning Engineer experience, preferably working in aerospace manufacturing with experience creating and delivering travelers/routers for CNC manufacturing

WORK AUTHORIZATION/ SECURITY CLEARANCE

All applicants and employees are required to adhere to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) regulations that dictate information and material pertaining to defense and military related technologies and may only be accessed and shared with "US Persons" as defined in these regulations. By definition, a "US Person" can be a US citizen: a lawful permanent legal resident or an individual who has been admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.