Contract Production Planner (Contract Employee)

Virgin Galactic is seeking a Contract Production Planner who will be responsible for materials planning, generation, and monitoring of the Production Schedule.

(M-Th) 6am-4:30pm or (Th-Sun) 6am-4:30pm.

This person will maintain the production schedule with weekly updates, make real-time changes, and inform the stakeholders of any changes, while evaluating the feasibility of those recommended changes.

Responsibilities

• Fully utilize the Oracle system to plan, implement and maintain production schedules
• Work closely with department Supervisors, Project Managers, strategic partners, and Procurement to achieve an optimized schedule.
• Release, post and implement production schedules for the Production and Assembly Teams
• Monitor schedules for adherence to the plan
• Coordinate and assist in determining materials, equipment, and staffing needed to cover production demand
• Project capacity and planned utilization to reduce employee idle time, and work with Manufacturing, Quality and Engineering to minimize bottlenecks
• Measure performance of all critical factors to ensure compliance to the production plan including publishing KPI’s
• Assist with the planned schedule in prioritizing operations and distribution to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
• Take a leading role to resolve problem situations affecting scheduled production
• Develop contingency plans to ensure there are no disruptions to planned production
• Prepare and report on production risk analysis and action plans
• Evaluating purchase orders for accuracy and to ensure production schedules are met
• Monitor jobs to ensure they are on-track and will finish on schedule
• Coordinate production operations in accordance with material, labor, and equipment availability
• Recommend viable solutions to reduce production costs while improving production processes and product quality
• Effect changes to production schedules to ensure that production deadlines are met
• Compiling status and performance reports and submitting them to management in a timely manner
• Promptly informing the relevant departments of changes to current production schedules

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field strongly preferred
• 5 years’ experience in Supply Chain environment
• Experience working with MRP/ERP systems
• Prior Planning and Scheduling experience required
• Strong computer skills: Excel, Access, and Oracle
• Continuous Improvement (Lean Six Sigma) experience preferred
• Ability to establish and achieve objectives working effectively with Program Leaders and all levels of employees
• Strong organizational and planning skills with attention to detail is essential