# Senior Staff Production Planner (Master Scheduler)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,000-200,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is building the world's best AI pilot. Our autonomous systems, including V-BAT and Hivemind Enterprise, operate in the most contested environments in the world. As aircraft production scales to meet growing global demand, operational rigor and production discipline are critical to delivering mission-ready systems to customers on time.

We are seeking a Master Scheduler – Aircraft Production to lead integrated production planning, Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP), forecasting, and capacity planning across our aircraft manufacturing operations. The Master Scheduler – Aircraft Production is responsible for developing and governing the master production schedule (MPS) for Shield AI aircraft programs. This role ensures alignment between demand forecasts, SIOP decisions, material availability, manufacturing capacity, and delivery commitments.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and maintaining the Master Production Schedule (MPS) for aircraft builds and major subassemblies

- Aligning build plans with contractual delivery schedules, internal program milestones, and new design cut-ins

- Driving schedule adherence across fabrication, assembly, and test

- Monitoring critical path and production constraints to prevent delivery slips

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in aerospace manufacturing, aircraft production, or complex hardware environments, with experience in Master Production Scheduling (MPS) and demonstrated ownership of SIOP processes in a manufacturing organization. They will also have strong cross-functional leadership and executive communication skills, as well as proficiency in ERP/MRP systems.

This role sits at the center of scaling that impact. If you are excited about building predictable, scalable aircraft production systems in support of next-generation autonomy, we want to hear from you. Join us in building the world's best AI pilot.

## Skills

### Required
- Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
- Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP)
- Forecasting and demand planning
- Capacity planning
- ERP/MRP systems

### Nice to have
- UAV, military aircraft, or aerospace defense production
- Scaling production rates in a high-growth environment
- APICS CPIM certification
- Complex BOMs
- Lean manufacturing and rate-readiness planning

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