Large Tech Company out of Redmond, WA looking for Planner!!

Description

About the team

This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with leaders in multiple technology areas. You’ll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to remove non-value-add operations, reduce down-time, improve quality of the products, and reduce lead-time of builds and tests. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Job Description: This is a role that will streamline the movement of parts between departments, areas, processes, and systems and be a creator of the systems necessary to minimize overhead, reduce non-value-add processes, improve on-time delivery of product to downstream customers, and invent methods for flexible but efficient production.

This will require a knowledgeable person of many aspects of aerospace production, including traceability, demand planning, flexible but efficient change management, broad aerospace assembly, testing, and handling requirements, application of six sigma and lean methodologies while enabling faster design changes and improvements and reducing the need for reviews, approvals, and manual interactions.

Key job responsibilities

Work cross functionally to develop and improve production scheduling tools and WIP tracking.

Develop processes/strategies to handle work order material discrepancies within production cells.

Coordinate the schedule, plan, and initial staging of material/kits to all vital areas of production and test.

Monitor, track, and move parts as required through the production flow to ensure timely delivery to next production location.

Coordinate physical movement of parts from warehouse through production resources.

Ensure parts are handled and protected properly.

Work with the planning to resolve immediate floor shortages on work orders.

Work with planning and production personnel to maintain floor stock inventory as required

Move parts electronically through the MES system at transaction points

Work with production personnel to ensure schedule/metric goals are understood.

Support logistics process through innovative staging of workflow as required.

Support management of material certifications as required – prevent use of un-certified materials.

Support production and inventory personnel with “return to stock” and inventory purge actions.

Support assigned production cells with work order management activities as required.

Communicate part status and estimated completion dates to leadership weekly.

Assist production leadership and project teams with action item updates as required.

Develop and maintain reports to highlight needs, deliverables and constraints as required for internal and customer use.

Skills

Planning, ERP, MRP, MES, SAP, Excel, Microsoft office suite

Top Skills Details

Planning,ERP,MRP,MES,SAP,Excel,Microsoft office suite

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Basic qualifications

High school diploma or equivalency certificate.

Experience in a manufacturing or administrative environment.

Experience with MRP/ERP systems.

Preferred qualifications

5+ years of experience handling parts in a manufacturing setting.

Strong computer skills, familiar with SAP ERP/MES and the full suite of MS Office products.

Bachelor’s degree.

Experience in organizing files and documents.

Inventory experience.

Experience in aerospace, military, automotive, semiconductor, or electronic manufacturing environments.

SQL and Tableau experience.

APICS certification.

Experience Level

Intermediate Level

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $32.00 - $35.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Redmond,WA.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 31, 2025.

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.