Senior Project Planner

About the Role

As a Project Planner you will coordinate manufacturing execution activities from project release through final delivery. You will be an important link between Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Project Management, ensuring you plan, prioritize, release, and implement manufacturing work. The Manufacturing Project Planner works with shop planners, supervisors, engineers, and project teams to support production readiness, monitor progress, and guide successful project execution across the facility. You will report to the Control Rod Drive Mechanism Engineering Manager and be located at Newington, NH. This role is 100% onsite.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate manufacturing priorities across machining, fabrication, welding, inspection, and assembly operations.
• Coordinate resources to ensure schedule adherence, including people, machines (availability / level loading), material, programs, tooling, and paperwork.
• Work with machine shop, fabrication, and quality planners to align production activities with project schedules and customer commitments.
• Monitor manufacturing activities and the planning, identify schedule conflicts and risks, and develop recommended action plans to maintain delivery and milestone commitments.
• Oversee release readiness of manufacturing work orders and expedite parts, materials, tooling, programs, and paperwork to ensure required engineering, quality, material, and production inputs are complete before release to operations.
• Support daily production execution meetings, helping resolve barriers to production.
• Partner with operations leadership, project teams, and resource planners to support capacity planning and resource prioritization activities.
• Provide manufacturing progress, schedule risk, and execution status inputs to Component Delivery and Project Controls teams.
• Coordinate resolution of production constraints, develop and implement contingency plans, and identify provisional or lower-priority work to support schedule recovery when planned work cannot proceed.
• Promote continuous improvement of manufacturing planning, work order management, and execution processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Business, or a related field.
• Experience in manufacturing, production planning, project coordination, operations, engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience with ERP/MRP systems such as SAP.
• Experience with scheduling software, such as Primavera P6.
• Knowledge of machining, fabrication, welding, inspection, or other manufacturing processes (preferred).

Pay

Estimated base salary range: $85,200 to $106,500 per year, depending on qualifications.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions options
• Wellness Programs including Employee Assistance Program providing support for employees and their household members
• 401(k) with Company Match Contributions
• Paid Vacations and Company Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements to promote work-life balance
• Educational Reimbursement and Comprehensive Career Programs
• Global Recognition and Service Programs
• Employee Referral Program