Fabrication Center Production Planner and Scheduler 2 or 3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time 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. Are you ready to put your experience to work at Northrop Grumman? If so, our Defense Systems wants you to join our team as a Production Planner and Scheduler or Principal Production Planner and Scheduler to support Our Fabrication Center in Lake Charles, LA. Our Fabrication Center is a manufacturing organization that specializes in metal work. Our team supports customers from every defense department along with collaborative efforts with each Northrop Grumman sector. Our manufacturing focuses on sheet metal fabrication, large assembly, surface finishing, advanced model CNC machining along with advanced inspection techniques in both NDI and 3D technologies. Your duties include: Plans, prepares, issues and controls production schedules and coordinates with material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of approved materials timed to meet production requirements. Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials and services are provided as needed. Schedules equipment and personnel, confirms material supply and demands, prepares work orders or purchase requests for the production or purchase of components or parts based on a master production schedule, shop load and inventory requirements. Coordinates interdepartmental activity with quality assurance, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, traffic, etc.; schedules and expedites the movement of parts by means of move orders, stock transfers and requests for shipping orders. Your specific duties include, but may not be limited to: • Plans, prepares, issues and controls production schedules; integrating multiple program schedule requests into one executable schedule for production teams • Resolves conflicts between competing programs for common resources • Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials and services are provided as needed • Use your understanding of critical path schedule network processing, driven by logic, durations and date constraints • Use your experience with IMP/IMS schedule structure as well as schedules based on Work Breakdown Structures Export schedule data to Excel and working with responsible parties to gather and report schedule status and productivity metrics per weekly and monthly reporting cycles • Export schedule data to Excel and working with responsible parties to gather and report schedule status and productivity metrics per weekly and monthly reporting cycles • Use your experience with critical and driving path identification and analysis • Use your experience resource loading schedules, including both labor and material • Work independently with minimum supervisi