Productions Operations Planner

DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc

DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc. (DRS-CCI) is the premier supplier of instrumentation & control systems for critical applications in U.S. Navy ships.  DRS CCI is a leading innovator and supplier of shipboard hydraulic to electric actuation conversion solutions that reduce construction and lifecycle costs.  Since the 1960s DRS CCI, under our Consolidated Controls legacy name brand, has provided Nuclear Regulatory Commission certified safety, and non-safety, analog and digital distributed controls systems for US and international nuclear power plants.  Products include shipboard control systems and panels, high-performance networks, tactical displays, controllers, circuit cards, detectors/transmitters, and specialty reactor plant instrumentation and control equipment. The division designs, qualifies and manufactures products that help our sailors maintain our nation’s maritime supremacy and our industrial customers to operate safely and efficiently.  We operate on a 9/80 work schedule with core works of 80 hrs in 9 days and every other Friday off.  www.drs-cci.com/careers.  

Job Location Danbury, CT

Title:  Productions Operations Planner

Position Summary:

Based on the MPS driven demand, selects and sequences available jobs to be run at specific workstations or machines, Meet weekly with Contracts to review all pending and recently received demands and assign planner responsibility to the appropriate individual, Manage overall workload and align resources as needed to maintain balance, Drive consistent communications between planning, project accounting, and project management for consistent project Material EAC’s and Execution Charts

 Duties and Responsibility: 

• Based on the MPS driven demand, selects and sequences available jobs to be run at specific workstations or machines
• Improve current system, functions, and daily operations to more effectively meet goals
• Maintains manufacturing build plans on a daily basis
• Maintains the run and set up times associated with each job / product / part
• Creates and maintains the expected completion of each scheduled job
• Reviews the schedule and ensures the raw materials are available when needed to run according to the schedule
• Creates a forward-looking plan to create purchase requisitions and monitor material deliveries to support the run schedules
• Ensures all outside services are planned and monitored
• Consolidate demand for purchase requisitions
• Highlights critical parts and any issue, which may keep operations from meeting the MPS
• Support, communicate and defend the mission, values and culture of the company

Basic Qualifications (include education and years of experience required):

• Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience.
• Solid understanding of business processes and functional inter-relationships
• Strong background in project material management
• Extensive experience in production planning
• Skilled in the use of Excel, Excel Pivot Tables, Power Point, Word, as well as Sharepoint
• Strong understanding of MRP systems
• Oracle experience Preferred

This position could require the ability to obtain and retain any applicable security clearances, including interim security clearances, within a time period to be established by the Company

DRS Consolidated Controls, Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state or local law. IND