Specialist - Production Control II

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will support the design, development and fabrication of space launch vehicles and components to support human spaceflight programs. This is a hands-on position that plans, prepares, issues, and aligns production demand with internal/external processing requirements to ensure a controlled flow of deliveries. Collaborates with Schedulers, Manufacturing Engineering, Inventory, and Production Control to ensure production material and production completion dates support Program delivery expectations.

Ensures major projects, program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups including program management, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Responsibilities:

• Intakes internal customer demand including launch manifest, and creates a manufacturing plan based on program schedule, customer date, labor and machine resource availability.
• Accounts for expected make/buy part availability and lead-time evaluations.
• Reconciles engineering bill of materials with manufacturing bill of materials using PLM software, loads demand into MRP system
• Reviews accuracy of demand signals and monitors execution of MRP messages.
• MRP advocate, driving improvements and promotes best practices throughout business units.
• Coordinate with Master Scheduler to ensure production schedules are driven to dates that meet the programs' requirements but do not exceed available capacity
• Shares forecast assumptions and impacts of strategic activates with various stakeholders.
• Contribute to S&OP and Strategic planning discussions with leadership teams
• Responsible for tracking and reporting periodic status of milestone completions back to Operations Leadership and Master Scheduler
• Works closely with production team to determine the needs and constraints of the manufacturing shop floor, technicians and schedules work accordingly.
• Coordinates interdepartmental activity with Program Management, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Engineering to ensure production and customer specifications are accurate and production schedules are timely.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS Production Management, Business Management, Finance, Industrial Engineering and/or Supply Chain Management.
• 2 + years recent production control or supply chain experience within an aerospace manufacturing environment.
• 2 + years' experience with loading demand to drive MRP and working with & reconciling eBOMS/mBOMS
• Previous experience running or facilitating S&OP meetings
• Thorough understanding of capacity planning and bottleneck resolution
• Prior experience setting up part masters, planning parameters and executing MRP messages/signals.
• Excellent written & verbal communications skills as well as advanced MS Office user
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

Desired:

• SQL, Tableau, Python or PowerBI skills highly desired
• Windchill or other PLM software experience highly desired
• Proficient with Excel advanced formulas and Power Query functions
• Manufacturing Lead, supplier management, program management experience highly desired
• Experience with MS Project or Primavera (P6)
• Reads and understands technical documents including blueprints andschematics

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

Inclusivity Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S.as a refugee or granted asylum.

Benefits

Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.

Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

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