Production Planner (Supply)

The role

This person will own production work order release, queue management, and execution flow within radar and RF manufacturing environments. They will coordinate between engineering, production, and inventory teams while maintaining Line of Balance tracking.

What you will do

• Review and release production work orders aligned to master production schedule and program milestones.
• Verify work order completeness including revision levels, MBOM structure, and routing accuracy.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering to resolve discrepancies.
• Prioritize and sequence work orders based on material readiness, capacity, and deadlines.
• Monitor WIP levels and identify bottlenecks.
• Develop and maintain Line of Balance tracking across radar subsystem and system-level builds.
• Generate production schedule performance reports.
• Coordinate with Inventory and Material Control to confirm kit availability.
• Verify accuracy of as-built documentation and traveler completion.
• Lead or support daily production scheduling reviews.

Required qualifications

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5-7+ years of experience in production scheduling, production control, or manufacturing planning
• Experience managing work orders within ERP and/or MES systems
• Working knowledge of Bills of Material (BOM/MBOM)
• Working knowledge of Routing structures
• Working knowledge of Revision control
• Working knowledge of Work order lifecycle
• Experience building and maintaining Line of Balance (LOB) tracking
• Strong analytical capability for schedule performance reporting
• Ability to coordinate across engineering, production, and inventory teams
• U.S. Citizenship (if required for program access)

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, defense, electronics, or RF/radar production environments
• Experience supporting LRIP or rate ramp production
• Familiarity with Serialized hardware tracking
• Familiarity with Engineering Change Orders (ECO/ECN)
• Familiarity with Configuration-controlled products
• Experience generating executive-level production performance reporting
• Working knowledge of Capacity planning concepts
• Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles
• Working knowledge of Production forecasting tools
• Experience with PLM systems integrated with ERP/MES

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch while working onsite
• fully-stocked kitchen
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance

Before you apply

• U.S. Citizenship (if required for program access)

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a modern defense company with a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™). Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles.