CareerPlanSign in

Staff Engineer, Production Planning and Scheduling

Santa Ana, CA (OC-42)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Own the integrated master schedule (IMS) and drive rate readiness for a state-of-the-art maritime manufacturing facility by managing production planning, critical path logic, shop load, and schedule adherence.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Production Planning and Scheduling

Builds

Integrated master schedules for module production across engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality for autonomous maritime systems

Domain

Defense manufacturing / Maritime systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Integrated master scheduling, critical path analysis, shop load and dispatch, earned value management, risk analysis, ERP/MES fluency, scheduling toolset fluency

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Resolve critical path conflicts and communicate program changes, manage shop load against material and labor availability, measure plan adherence and feed variance back into the plan, re-baseline schedules with risk analysis

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC

Sourced via greenhouse · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.