Production Planner - level 3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: None TRAVEL: No Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Production Planner – Level 3 to join our team in East Hartford, CT. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. AOA Xinetics (AOX), a wholly owned Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Business Venture, is a leading supplier of complex electro-optic and photonic systems and subsystems that control and manipulate light waves for a variety of applications.  Our talented team of engineers, managers and technologists conceive, design, develop and manufacture high precision products in an environment that requires significant collaboration and teamwork among multiple engineering disciplines.   Learn more about AOX at: https://www.northropgrumman.com/who-we-are/aoa-xinetics Reporting to the Production Planning Manager, the Production Planner 3 is responsible for planning and managing production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize company’s productive capacity. You will use detailed tasks for operations from blueprints, engineering orders, change notices, and other engineering releases to ensure timely execution. You will create work orders and track them through completion. You will work with inventory control to support build requirements and provide status of completed and in process work. Our ideal candidate will have the ability to provide production control support within a high growth, fast paced work environment. In this job, you will: • Coordinate production workflow for one or multiple programs and products • Plan and prioritize operations to ensure customer schedule and requirements are met • Create production work order documentation for release to the shop floor • Assist in determining manpower required to meet schedule demands, • Work with materials planning to determine and schedule materials needed to cover production demand • Coordinate with program management and the manufacturing manager staffing requirements for  production operations • Monitor jobs to ensure they will be completed on schedule • Identify potential issues or deal with current disruptions to minimize delays in the value stream • Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.) • Prepare and submit status and performance reports • Keep paperwork organized • Collaborate with Quality Assurance, Materials Purchasing and other staff   Basic Qualifications: • High School diploma or equivalent and 4 years working in inventory planning or materials requirements planning (MRP), or similar role within a highly technical manufacturing/production work environment • No clearance required to start • Advanced MS Office Skills (Word, Excel and Power Point) • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills • Experience working with Manufacturing Execution System (MES) • Experience with Enterprise Resour