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