Production Planner / Scheduler

The role

The Production Planner / Scheduler will manage the planning, scheduling, tracking, and capacity management of the satellite production facility. This person will translate the master production schedule into material release schedules and coordinate production activities with various teams.

What you will do

• Manage the master production schedule and coordinated work order releases.
• Coordinate work order release, capacity planning, material kitting and inventory staging with supply chain and materials teams.
• Manage schedule changes, issues, adjustments and perform impact analysis.
• Monitor work-in-progress activities including ECOs, NCRs or material supplier issues.
• Manage daily production control through shop-floor production stand-up meetings and operations reviews.
• Use MRP and MES digital tools to optimize production planning and schedule coordination.
• Support short-term and long-term planning for people and equipment capacity planning and budgeting.
• Improve and optimize planning processes at the Xona HQ and Montreal facilities.

Required qualifications

• At least 2 years experience in a planning, production control, logistics, MRP or inventory management role in a rate-production facility.
• Strong understanding, proficiency and experience with MRP/ERP systems.
• Advanced Excel user.
• Excellent organizational, communication and analytical skills.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or related technical discipline.
• APICS or ASCM certification.
• Experience in aerospace, satellite, defense, medical device, semiconductor, or other high-complexity manufacturing environments.
• Working understanding of lean manufacturing principles and QMS systems.
• Data-driven decision maker.

Before you apply

• For U.S. Roles: applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual.
• For U.K. Roles: requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks and eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• For Canada Roles: must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

About the company

Xona is a navigational intelligence company building a commercial constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide precise positioning services.