# Senior Production Planner, Development Programs (R5277)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 96,000-145,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.

You will serve as a Senior Production Planner for Development Programs to drive production planning and execution for developmental and prototype aircraft builds.

## Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain detailed production schedules for prototype aircraft builds, major assemblies, and integration activities

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

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

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

- Monitor production progress and proactively identify risks to key build, integration, and flight test milestones

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

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

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

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

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or 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)

- 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

- 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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