Fabrication Project Planner

About the role

Frontera Space is developing a next-generation air-breathing hypersonic vehicle and is seeking a Fabrication Project Planner to plan, coordinate, monitor, and support the execution of projects within the fabrication department. This position will organize project activities across engineering, fabrication, quality, supply chain, technicians, suppliers, and other involved parties. The Fabrication Project Planner will translate project objectives into actionable plans, create and track tasking, coordinate resources and dependencies, monitor progress, and help ensure work is completed on time. The ideal candidate is highly organized, communicates clearly, anticipates project risks, and takes accountability for assigned schedules and deliverables. This hands-on role requires regular engagement with technical teams and fabrication-floor activities. This is a full-time exempt position reporting in person to the Director of Fabrication at the Austin, TX office.

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain fabrication project schedules, milestones, priorities, resource needs, and deliverables.
• Translate project objectives into clear tasking, identify responsible owners, establish due dates, and track commitments through completion.
• Coordinate activities across engineering, fabrication, quality, supply chain, technicians, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor execution, identify schedule risks and constraints, and coordinate timely resolution or escalation of issues.
• Ensure drawings, materials, tooling, equipment, personnel, inspections, and approvals are available when needed.
• Lead planning and status meetings, document decisions and action items, and provide accurate project updates.
• Evaluate changes in scope, schedule, priorities, and technical direction and communicate their effects on resources and delivery.
• Maintain accountability for project plans, schedule accuracy, action-item closure, and timely delivery of assigned work.

What Success Looks Like

• Assigned fabrication projects have clear schedules, responsibilities, dependencies, and completion criteria.
• Teams receive timely tasking and have the information, materials, tooling, and support needed to execute their work.
• Schedule risks and blockers are identified early, communicated clearly, and resolved before they cause avoidable delays.
• Project commitments are completed on time, with accurate records and clear accountability for results.

Employment Details

• Full-time, exempt position.
• Primarily in-person in the Austin, Texas area.
• Regular interaction with engineering, fabrication, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, integration, and test teams.
• Hands-on participation in fabrication planning and production activities is expected.
• Travel to suppliers, manufacturing facilities, or test locations may be required.

Qualifications

• Experience managing projects in fabrication, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, industrial, or another technical environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop schedules, establish tasking, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and drive projects to completion.
• Ability to understand technical drawings, manufacturing plans, bills of materials, work instructions, and production status.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, and changing requirements.
• Clear written and verbal communication, accurate documentation, sound judgment, and a strong sense of ownership.
• Ability to identify risks, resolve obstacles, hold owners accountable, and escalate issues when necessary.
• Willingness to work directly with engineers, technicians, suppliers, and fabrication hardware.

Preferred

• Project management experience in aerospace fabrication, composite manufacturing, machining, welding, tooling, assembly, or test operations.
• Experience working in an AS9100 or similarly controlled quality-management environment.
• Familiarity with project-management, scheduling, enterprise resource planning, material-planning, or production-tracking software.
• Experience coordinating engineering releases, material procurement, tooling readiness, fabrication, inspection, and hardware delivery.
• Project Management Professional certification or formal project-management training.
• Experience supporting prototype and low-rate production programs in a fast-paced development environment.

Technical Skills

• Project planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Task creation, assignment, and status tracking.
• Resource, dependency, and milestone management.
• Risk identification and corrective-action coordination.
• Fabrication workflow and production-readiness planning.
• Technical documentation and configuration awareness.
• Cross-functional meeting leadership and status reporting.
• Supplier and material-delivery coordination.

Working Conditions

This role operates in a fast-paced aerospace development environment spanning office engineering, manufacturing, integration, and test activities. The position may involve work around large composite structures, pressure systems, cryogenic systems, test equipment, manufacturing machinery, and flight hardware. The successful candidate must be comfortable moving between analytical models, first-principles engineering calculations, CAD and drawings, physical hardware, and hands-on structural testing.

Why Join Us?

Join Frontera Space at an early stage and help create a transformational aerospace platform designed to change how high-speed aircraft and access-to-space systems are developed, manufactured, and operated. You will have the opportunity to influence the vehicle architecture, solve foundational technical challenges, and see your work move rapidly from analysis and design into hardware, testing, and flight. As an early team member, you will take on broad ownership, help establish the engineering culture, and directly shape both the product and the company. Frontera Space offers meaningful equity participation and the chance to create lasting value while working on technology with the potential to redefine aerospace performance, affordability, and operational capability. This is an opportunity to do more than contribute to an established program—it is a chance to help build the vehicle, the team, and the company from the ground up.