Project Planning Specialist

Description

• Help to develop and implement new process, procedures, and efficiency techniques as necessary.
• Manages data and reports to create a time-phased material plan that supports the program schedule and cost objectives, developing acquisition and production schedules.
• Proactively identifies, communicates, and mitigates schedule execution issues. Facilitates resolution of cross functional issues as appropriate.
• Develops, coordinates, and executes material forecasting and material delivery schedule.
• Receive/review requirements for non-standard parts.
• Collaborate cross functionally with supplier quality, engineering, quality, production and other support functions.
• Participates in make/buy process, long-term capacity and resource planning; manufacturing ramp-up
• Monitor inventory levels based on dependent and independent Bill-of-Materials (BOM) requirements.
• Independently perform material requirements planning alongside program stakeholders.
• Measure operational performance (material delivery receipts, project delivery schedules, material on-time delivery, and program financial health).
• Understand the manufacturing/production build sequence to best support the overall production schedule.
• report schedule and execution variances.
• Analyze lead times and identify critical path procurements.
• Create and manage Purchase Requisitions.
• Analyze purchase material supply/demand position using Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools.
• Reports variances to management as required.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert and primary point of contact in Planning to the Program Management and Purchasing teams
• Review Bills of Materials and schedules and identify risks/problem issues. Develop work arounds, contingencies, and expedite materials/information as required.
• Attribute and Manufacturing Plans.
• Responsible for training and developing other team members on industry standard practices.
• Defines and develops material sourcing strategy.
• Provide feedback to Manufacturing Leads and Production Leads on the status of open items to ensure on-time completion of schedule milestones.
• Practice CI (Continuous Improvement) concepts to improve processes. Propose possible solutions to problems identified.
• Prioritize and communicate impacts of current and potential material shortages, delays and risks.
• Audit the data integrity of the Material Resource Planning (MRP) application in the organization’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, including but not limited to Item Master
• Works with manufacturing/production, cost accounting, logistic managers and support personnel, and with supply chain management (SCM) to understand, coordinate, monitor, and

Requirements

• Demonstrated knowledge of Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) and Government Furnished Information (GFI) handling and tracking.
• Proficient in MS Office applications and database management.
• Knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) practices.
• Ability to write business correspondence and interact with others in a professional manner.
• APICS Certified in Planning and Inventory Management (CPIM) certification.
• Intermediate math, administration, and management skills.
• Experience with project planning and execution.
• 5 - 10 years of experience in Project Management, Planning, Integrated Project Support, Scheduling, Procurement, and/or supply support related jobs, or activities or equivalent combination of education and experience/training.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Operations, with emphasis in Inventory Management/ Logistics/Scheduling preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills with Material Resource Planning (MRP) application in the organization’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Must be able to comprehend complex engineering, procurement, production, installation tasks and develop dependence-based logic to sequencing and inter-relationships of process flows.
• Ability to obtain security clearance.
• Deltek Costpoint ERP and MRP system experience.
• Strong skillset applicable to organizational skills, time management, oral comprehension, reading comprehension, speaking, written comprehension, information ordering, active listening, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning.
• Advanced degree

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance