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Job Title: Senior Associate, Production Planning

Job Code: 22965

Job Location: Waco, TX (Onsite)

Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The Senior Associate, Production Planner is responsible for managing and optimizing the end-to-end material planning process to ensure the on-time availability of raw materials and finished goods for all contract and non-contract material at a group of sites. The Senior Associate, Production Planner supports the Production Planning & Control site master production schedule through efficient utilization of the MRP system, including implementation of planning strategies and effective purchasing requisition management. This role will work closely with the Procurement organization to ensure material is proactively planned, ordered, received, stored, and issued to the manufacturing line to support the manufacturing need date, master schedule attainment, and customer on-time delivery. The Senior Associate, Production Planner plays a vital role in maintaining optimal inventory levels, minimizing costs, and ensuring timely delivery of products to customers.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.
• Responsible for optimizing material availability and supply chain efficiency through implementation of material planning strategies, effective purchase requisition management, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure timely product delivery while minimizing costs and maintaining optimal inventory levels.
• Effective utilization of the MRP system, maintaining MRP data integrity, monitoring project production schedules to ensure material alignment, resolving supply chain issues, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Plans, schedules, coordinates and/or monitors final approval of products through the complete production cycle to meet production requirements.
• Works from engineering plans and production specifications to ensure materials are provided according to schedules.
• Advises management of the status of work in progress, coordinates with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain and interfaces with engineering and program management as well as external customers.
• Ensures availability of materials and labor to meet production requirements and delivery commitments.
• Works to resolve labor and material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
• Must be a U.S. citizen

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Secret Clearance 
• Experience in SAP, Solumina, Excel, MS Word, MS Project, TeamCenter Unified, Labor Tracking System

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