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L3Harris Senior Manager, Production Planning and Scheduling in Palm Bay, Florida
Job Title: Senior Manager, Production Planning and Scheduling
Job Code: 11831
Job Location: Palm Bay, FL
Job Description: The production planning and scheduling senior manager serves as a functional subject matter expert in the development of production schedules and alignment of MRP systems, and SIOP deployment for 20+ manufacturing sites. The production planning and scheduling senior manager oversees the coordination of production schedules and ensures smooth flow of parts and materials between departments, sites, and programs, and product families. They will develop and foster efficient and reliable manufacturing planning processes with support from the program, planning, e3, and supply chain groups. Their duties involve developing production scheduling processes and best practices, driving delivery performance, setting execution targets, and tracking performance to meet program goals. The ideal candidate will have the ability to lead diverse teams in complex tasks, development of process improvements, and creation of tools to enable our success.
Essential Functions:
Serve as the functional point of contact for the production planning and scheduling discipline
Build the production planning and scheduling organization structure
Develop, deploy, and maintain scheduling process and best practices for the different program types across SAS operations
Establish training and documentation for the production planning and master scheduling roles that will be essential for successful implementation of optimized factory planning and SIOP processes
Ensure alignment of production schedules with MRP systems
De-conflict and optimize scheduling of shared areas and multi-program lines
Be an active member in the deployment and sustainment of SIOP
Ensure program demand is translated into predictable, production-centered schedules that allow the production team to be successful
Prepare, develop, and coordinate the production master schedule and ensure integration with the MRP system and integrated master schedule to meet all program objectives
Ensure major projects and program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated
Track plans and schedules, perform risk analysis, identify, and resolve critical path and network logic conflicts
Utilize Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas
Qualifications:
Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across the function. Typically has mastery within a specific technical area or broad expertise across multiple related job areas. Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
10+ Years experience of production scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment
4 + Years of experience leading a team, process, and/or projects
Preferred Additional Skills:
Experience with SIOP strategy creation and new implementation/deployment
Experience in defense/aerospace
Experience with Control and SAP MRP systems
Active DoD Clearance
Experience being an active user of MRP systems
Familiar with MRP systems
Experience with SIOP process and practices
Experience using advanced planning tools (i.e. Kinaxis) for SIOP and scenario planning
L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.