Title:  Production Planning- Energetics

Job Title: Lead, Production Planning- Energetics

Job Code: 44872

Job Location: Remote

Job Schedule: 4/10: Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week

Job Description:

The Strategic Integration and Governance (SIG) team is seeking a Lead, Production Planning to serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for the safe, secure, and compliant storage, handling, and movement of energetic and hazardous materials across Missile Solutions. This role owns the enterprise standards and the storage capacity model that allow six sites to store and move energetic material safely, and serves as the primary energetics resource supporting major facility expansions at Camden, Arkansas and Orange, in Culpeper, Virginia. SIG is a first-of-its-kind team at the company, built to connect planning, scheduling, and logistics work that has historically been managed site by site.

Essential Functions:

• Own enterprise standard work for energetic material storage, handling, and movement, maintain it in command media, and serve as technical authority interpreting Department of Defense Manual (DoDM) 4145.26, Defense Explosives Safety Regulation (DESR) 6055.09, Titles 49 and 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.223-7002.
• Lead enterprise analysis of energetic storage capacity, consumption, and future demand, maintain the capacity model tracking floor space and net explosive weight utilization against sited limits, and perform quantity-distance analysis applying hazard division and compatibility group logic as distinct controls.
• Provide technical oversight of hazardous and energetic material shipment preparation, including shipping papers, marking, labeling, placarding, blocking and bracing, and carrier qualification, and serve as approving authority for non-routine and high-consequence movements.
• Apply hazard classification data, including Interim Hazard Classifications (IHC), to storage siting, segregation, and movement decisions, and coordinate with designated classification focal points to confirm status, expiration, and applicability before material moves.
• Lead the energetics workstream for the Camden expansion and support the Orange expansion and other modernization integrated product teams, translating forecasted demand into requirements for magazine configuration, infrastructure, material flow, and security.
• Own the accuracy of energetic material attributes in enterprise planning and inventory systems, including hazard class, net explosive weight designator, compatibility group, and storage condition, and maintain capacity dashboards and reporting for leadership.
• Assist Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) with explosives site plan development and the internal approval path, including Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) and Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO) approval for contractor-owned, contractor-operated facilities, and serve as technical point of contact for customer, Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and state and local regulatory engagement.
• Deliver instructor-level Lift Director and Industrial Vehicle Operations training, support chemicals of interest screening and reporting, and lead root cause analysis, mishap investigation, and corrective action closure for energetic operations.
• Travel: 25% to energetic operations, project sites, and enterprise locations, primarily Camden, Arkansas and Orange, in Culpeper, Virginia, including occasional short-notice travel.
• Ability to obtain a US secret security clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience; Graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience; in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. 
• 5 years of experience in explosives or energetic material storage, handling, or hazardous material logistics in a regulated manufacturing, defense, or commercial explosives environment.
• 3 years of experience applying Department of Defense or Department of Transportation explosives and hazardous material regulations to storage, siting, or transportation decisions.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Department of Transportation (DOT) hazardous materials employee training, or able to complete within 90 days of hire.
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliant Lift Director certification and Industrial Vehicle Operations instructor certification, or able to obtain within 12 months of hire.
• Experience supporting facility expansion, explosive storage area development, or magazine modernization projects.
• Experience preparing explosives site plans and working through Procuring Contracting Officer and Administrative Contracting Officer approval for contractor-owned, contractor-operated facilities.
• Working knowledge of the Interim Hazard Classification process sufficient to interpret classification data, coordinate with designated focal points, and apply results to storage siting and transportation decisions.
• Federal explosives licensing experience with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, including responsible person or employee possessor administration.
• Familiarity with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 780 lightning protection and NFPA 10 as applied to magazines.
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning and Material Requirements Planning inventory systems, and advanced Excel and Power BI skills for capacity modeling.
• Project Management Professional certification.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California, Connecticut, 
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C. area, Denver, or NYC areas is $96,500 -
$179,500. The salary range for this role in Colorado state, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, 
New York state, Cleveland Ohio, Vermont and Virginia is $85,000 - $158,000. This is not a guarantee 
of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to 
experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability 
insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, 
and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending 
on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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