# Senior Production Planner, Development Programs (R5277)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 78,000-110,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Production Planner for Development Programs to drive production planning and execution for developmental and prototype aircraft builds. The successful candidate will serve as a critical coordination point between Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Program Management to ensure aircraft build schedules remain executable despite evolving designs, changing priorities, and material constraints.

The Senior Production Planner – Development Programs is responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing production plans for prototype and developmental aircraft programs. This involves navigating incomplete engineering definitions, evolving bills of material, shifting program priorities, and dynamic supply chain conditions while maintaining progress toward key build and flight test milestones.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and maintaining detailed production schedules for prototype aircraft builds, major assemblies, and integration activities

- Translating engineering release plans, build priorities, and program milestones into executable manufacturing schedules

- Releasing and managing work orders in support of aircraft builds, including builds with incomplete engineering definition or evolving configurations or bills of material

- Coordinating schedule adjustments resulting from engineering changes, design revisions, and shifting program priorities

- Monitoring production progress and proactively identifying risks to key build, integration, and flight test milestones

- Coordinating temporary planning structures and workarounds to enable manufacturing progress while maintaining configuration control

- Facilitating rapid schedule recovery plans when design, material, or technical issues affect build progress

- Partnering closely with Supply Chain to align material availability with build requirements and timelines

- Supporting ERP/MRP system accuracy through effective planning and work order management

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related field

- 5+ years of experience in production planning, manufacturing planning, production control, or supply chain operations

- Experience supporting complex hardware, aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, or other highly engineered products

- Experience working within ERP/MRP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Costpoint, or similar)

- A strong understanding of manufacturing processes, work order management, bills of material, and production scheduling

- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and highly dynamic environment

- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain/maintain a security clearance

## Skills

### Required
- production planning
- manufacturing planning
- supply chain operations
- ERP/MRP systems
- manufacturing processes
- work order management
- bills of material
- production scheduling

### Nice to have
- prototype manufacturing programs
- UAV
- aerospace
- defense
- aircraft production environments
- engineering change management
- configuration control processes
- APICS CPIM certification

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