Senior Associate, Production Planning

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Schedule: 9/80 – employees work 9 out of every 14 days (80 hours) with every other Friday off.

About the role

This Senior Associate, Production Planning – Master Scheduling position is responsible for developing a master production schedule by compiling, balancing, and maintaining project‑based schedule bases that support individual project life cycles.

Responsibilities

• Use Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to schedule project‑based demand, balancing schedule needs with existing demands and shop‑floor capacity.
• Manage demand against constrained work centers and provide demand‑forecast reports to management.
• Make recommendations for rough‑cut capacity planning based on current and forecast demands.
• Maintain inputs for active schedule management and balance ongoing project mitigations with the overall production schedule, including dates, quantities, configuration, job‑order creation, and changes to existing job orders.
• Maintain the interface between the MRP system and the Product Scheduling/Status system.
• Ensure material demands support program schedules while balancing production with available capacity.
• Process Work Authorization (WA) and Program Directive (PD) documents, adhering to scheduling system, project‑grouping strategy, configuration control, and approval guidelines.
• Manage impact and implement changes from Engineering Change Notices (ECN).
• Manage inventory and open orders for all assemblies related to assigned projects, including project transfer request approvals, transfer‑payback activity, excess/inactive/obsolete inventory reconciliation, and open job‑order maintenance.
• Provide ongoing management of special MRP demand inputs such as Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs), Final Acceptance Orders (FAOs), and Blocking Jobs to ensure time‑phased requirements meet program needs while mitigating excess demand.
• Perform schedule compression and critical‑path mitigation.
• Identify and analyze MRP exceptions.
• Travel occasionally and work extended hours as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or graduate degree with 0–2 years of related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 6 years of related experience.

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• Practical knowledge of project management.
• Proficient knowledge of the job area.