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Production Planning and Scheduling Engineer

Santa Ana, CA (OC-42)💼 Full-time💰 $129,000–$129,000🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Own the integrated master schedule (IMS) and daily production floor dispatch for advanced maritime defense hardware manufacturing.

Role type

Senior production planning and scheduling engineer (defense manufacturing)

Builds

Large-scale autonomous maritime systems (static and moving surface, undersea, sea-to-air vehicles)

Domain

Defense manufacturing / Maritime systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Integrated master scheduling (IMS), critical path analysis, shop load and dispatch, earned value management, ERP/MES systems, scheduling tools (P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Aurora), risk analysis

Preferred skills

Submarine or surface-ship construction, critical chain / theory of constraints, greenfield production line setup, defense manufacturing background, PMP/PMI-SP certification

Technologies

P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Aurora, Forge, Odoo, SAP, Solumina, Oracle

Responsibilities

Manage the integrated master schedule across engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality; resolve critical path conflicts; determine daily shop load based on material and labor availability; measure schedule adherence and feed variance back into the plan; re-baseline schedules with risk analysis when program changes occur

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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