Production Planner (US Person) - Wilmington, MA - JP6573 with Security Clearance

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Job description

We've determined which skillsets are most beneficial for this role. These skills are listed first below as the Must Haves and Nice to Haves our hiring team highly prefers. Below that you'll find the standard job description for this opportunity. Must Haves:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, etc.
APICS, Lean, and Six Sigma training preferred.
Minimum of 3 years' experience in a manufacturing environment that includes new product introductions.
Strong working knowledge of inventory, planning, supply chain, and configuration management
Nice to Haves:
Experience with ERP implementations and/or Cincom Control and Agile/PDM systems
Experience in a manufacturing environment as an ops manager, production planner, or manufacturing engineer
Possess strong analytical, time management, and organizational skills
Ability to multi-task and communicate cross-functionally
Ability to obtain a secret or top-secret clearance
Job Description:
The Production Planning organization is looking for an individual who can effectively bridge gaps and solve operational problems in the support of meeting customer commitments. In this position, the candidate will coordinate with several internal departments in order to create and maintain an accurate manufacturing execution plan, and help ensure that the manufacturing team gets what they need when they need it. It will be important in this role to manage several internal suppliers and coordinate with several internal customers to understand the requirements, limitations, and problems associated with the manufacturing phase of a development program. It is a fast paced, constantly changing, and challenging role!
Essential Functions:
Developing and maintaining manufacturing execution schedules throughout the planning and execution phases of the manufacturing process
Coordinate with internal suppliers such as Material Management and Design Engineering to ensure material and labor is available to meet internal and external customer commitments
Prioritizing day to day activities of the manufacturing and material flow processes, measure success and failure to the plan, communicate status to program and management
Develop unique solutions to manufacturing problems by working closely with other Operations functions including Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and technical personnel on other programs
Coordinate with manufacturing shared services Manage internal value add/work in process parts
Coordinate with internal suppliers to ensure build documentation meets program and quality requirements.
Support timely analysis and implementation on Engineering Change Orders
Utilize ERP data to identify potential schedule and/or data integrity problems along with metric-based performance
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