Planner III
About Us:
For more than six decades, the skilled thinkers, makers, and doers at Frontgrade have embraced our mission to solve complex technology challenges across the U.S. and around the globe.
We’re the leading provider of high reliability and radiation assured solutions for defense, space, intelligence, commercial, and civil applications, and our products are designed to perform in the harshest of environments. From human spaceflight and space exploration to missile defense, electronic warfare, and healthcare tech advancements, our talented team stays in lockstep with our customers to ensure the success of their missions.
Do you want to help shape the future? In an environment where innovation and ideas go hand-in-hand? Then come join the Frontgrade Team!
WHY WORK FOR US
We take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits – from day one. You’ll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level – and beyond.
Other benefits include:
- Competitive Benefits: Medical (FSA + HSA), Dental, and Vision
- Immediate 401K Vesting/Matching
- Career Opportunity and Growth
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Student Loan Repayment
- Generous PTO and 11 paid Holidays per year (8 regular and 3 floating)
- 8 weeks of 100% Paid Family Leave
- Profit Sharing Plan applies to all non-Annual Incentive Plan and non-Sales Incentive Plan employees.
Responsibilities:
- Planning and scheduling of internal manufacturing operations in accordance with the needs of the MPS, and to insure capacity optimization. Finite scheduling, capacity planning & inventory optimization. Releasing requisitions to purchasing for outside procurement requirements.
- Analyzing supply and demand and releasing internal works orders, balancing OEM, after-market/spare requirements & inventory
- Constructing a planning bill of material when given parents and components for engineering job orders and re-work job orders
- Developing a plan for every part and serving as the data owner for all make and buy planning elements.
- Updating planning, financial, and delivery information to reflect results
- Planning and sequencing material inflows to maintain inventory at planned levels to insure that inventories are sized and balanced at the optimum levels throughout the supply chain
- Attending drawing release meetings and engineering change review meetings to conduct material impact assessments on new parts.
- Managing the effective cut in of engineering changes minimizing inventory impacts and ensuring customer OTD.
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma
- 5+years of experience working as a planner or buyer/planner to include time working in a machine shop/manufacturing environmet
- This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by either ITAR or EAR U.S. export laws. As a condition to this job offer, in order to be employed in this position, you must be able to obtain an U.S. Government export license(s), as required by law.
- Pay Range: Applicable pay within the posted range may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographical location, job function of the position, education, and experience of the successful candidate.
Employment Transparency:
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER
At Frontgrade we welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email Careers@Frontgrade.com.