Manufacturing Planner Staff

You will be the Manufacturing Planner Staff for the Production Planning and Control team. Our team is responsible for guiding projects from concept to production, ensuring precision and performance.

What You Will Be Doing

As the Manufacturing Planner Staff you will be responsible for driving innovative production control and delivering reliable solutions.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Design and implement innovative production control strategies that keep projects on track and on budget.
• Solve complex problems and deliver practical outcomes, turning problems into opportunities.
• Collaborate cross functionally with manufacturing, engineering, global supply chain, integrated planning, finance and quality to respond to changing needs.
• Maintain schedules and communicate potential impacts based on regular page and line meetings.
• Perform lead time analysis on procured parts, ensuring rapid part receipts.

Why Join Us

The ideal candidate is adaptable, creative, and solution oriented, thriving in fast paced, cross functional environments. You will work alongside visionary engineers, influencing mission critical projects from concept through production while enjoying a collaborative culture that values resilience and diplomatic skill.

We are committed to supporting your work life balance and overall well being, offering flexible scheduling options. Learn more about Lockheed Martins comprehensive benefits package here

Further Information About This Opportunity

This position is in Orlando. Discover more about our Orlando, Florida location.

MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN - This position is located at a facility that requires special access.

Candidate must be a highly agile and adaptable professional who is comfortable operating in ambiguous, gray area environments, flexible, creative and a strong problem solver. The ideal candidate is personable, collaborative and solution oriented, with the resilience and diplomatic skills needed to thrive in a fast paced, cross functional setting.
What you will be doing:
As the Manufacturing Planner, your responsibilities will include the following:
Design and implement innovative production control strategies that keep projects on track and on budget
Solve complex problems and deliver practical outcomes, turning problems into opportunities
Collaborate cross functionally with manufacturing, engineering, global supply chain, integrated planning, finance and quality counterparts to identify and react to changing needs; pivot quickly when priorities shift
Maintain schedules and communicate potential impacts based on regular page and line meetings
Support multiple program needs to achieve critical schedule milestones by navigating competing priorities and maintaining momentum
Perform lead time analysis on procured parts, ensuring rapid part receipts
Review, comment and approve Demand Requirements Load
Ensure Windchill / MPMLink communicates accurately with SAP S4
Travel may be required to support and communicate with other production sites
Work outside of the normal operating hours may be required5+ Years in position working in a support position, product development from design inception to product launch.

The preferred candidate will have worked across numerous products, product types and teams across different elements (companies or business divisions).

Candidate must have significant experience working hands-on in an operations / shopfloor environment and with processes to include PWA (printed wiring assembly), cables & harness and product integrations of electrical assembly.

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

Strategic thinker with lean manufacturing focus with demonstrated experience.

Experience and understanding of all aspects of Production Planning and Control including Master Production Scheduling, Demand and Supply control and optimization, Material Flow controls and management. Green Belt trained/certified or Lean 6S Black Belt trained/certified
Masters Degree from an accredited college in a related discipline
Knowledge of industry wide best practices and processes for managing material flow throughout the entire production supply chain
Inventory control knowledge and experience
Experience working with rapid prototyping, advanced manufacturing, production/development programs, creating new processes/procedures and comfortable working in ambiguous environments
Problem solver for rapid changing development environment, capable of collaborating with multiple functions to solve complex problems and deliver creative solutions
Ability to understand Windchill/MPMLink and the association with SAP
Previous Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) knowledge and experience