L3Harris

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Production Planner

Job ID: 12094

Job Location: Hanover, Maryland

Job Schedule: 9/80; Every other Friday Off

About L3Harris Technologies:

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Job Description:

The Sr Specialist, Production Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating, and/or monitoring final approval of products through the complete production cycle to meet production requirements. Selected candidate will work from engineering plans and production specifications to ensure materials are provided according to schedules. They will advise management of the status of work in progress, coordinate with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain and interfaces with engineering and program management as well as external customers. Ensure 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. planning, and project and Work Center schedule execution. Minimal supervision of daily activities will be required with independent judgment relative to work activities expected.

Essential Functions:

• Reviews SAP daily, validates the output for accuracy and initiates corrective action for discrepant issues.
• Interface with Purchasing to resolve due date and shortage issues prior to work order release to support customer delivery/contract dates.
• Reviews SAP daily for actions. Reports to include the exception message report, Allocation of Excess Inventory report, Open Work Order report, and Project Shortage report.
• Manages the work order process to include revision control, material availability, work order release, start and completion date maintenance, material allocation changes, Work Center labor requirements, material, and labor variance analysis, and released BOM’s and routers.
• Notify the Operations Manager when available resources do not support the production plan (MPS) or meeting the contract date is at risk.
• Performs other duties as assigned by Management.
• Must understand ERP Manufacturing Planning Systems, ideally SAP.
• Experience and understanding of requirements in the requisitioning, purchasing, stocking, control, and issuance of inventory. 
• Capable of generating complex spreadsheets and reports utilizing: Microsoft Excel (pivot tables), Microsoft Word, and Power BI. 
• Work consists of making moderate to substantial improvement or enhancements to systems and processes to improve performance of job area.
• Opportunities for problem solving and innovation are complex and may require comprehensive information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience OR In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Must understand ERP Manufacturing Planning Systems, ideally SAP.
• Experience and understanding of requirements in the requisitioning, purchasing, stocking, control, and issuance of inventory. 
• Capable of generating complex spreadsheets and reports utilizing: Microsoft Excel (pivot tables), Microsoft Word, and Power BI. 
• Scheduling and forecast planning.