Title:  Sr Associate, Production Planning (Clifton NJ)

Job Title: Sr Associate, Production Planning

Job Code: 22226

Job Location: Clifton, NJ

Job Description:

• Serve as a liaison between Operations and Program Management in support program requirements and milestones.
• Professional with broad theoretical job knowledge of material coordination and processes.
• Works under minimal direction and guidance within standard processes for non-routine tasks.
• Communicates and coordinates within own team as well as other organizations to provide solutions to problems within the supply chain.
• Contributes to systems and process changes in work routines.
• Works to achieve operational targets that impact team results.

Essential Functions:

• Advise 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 to achieve milestone completions.
• Coordinate the production and/or purchase of components to support the master production schedule, shop workload and inventory requirements.
• Utilize prior experience to identify risks and opportunities regarding material availability to ensure success of the production plan and maintain finish date integrity. 
• Must track multiple projects with varying complexity to completion with limited supervision assistance.
• Communicate status and needs with cross functional teams including various internal and external customers (i.e. quality assurance, manufacturing, procurement, engineering, inventory control, etc.)
• Schedule and expedite the movement of parts by means of move orders; stock transfers and requests for shipping orders.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
• Position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret Security Clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with SAP

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