Cleared Senior/Principal Production Planning Control Specialist - PPVS, Onsite

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We are seeking a Production Planning Control Specialist to join the 07567-1 PPVS Material Planning Team. Our team ensures delivery of production material and plans for and anticipates demand for various commodities (including mechanical, chemical, and electrical) and components across numerous PRTs, production and development floors and internal/external production customers. We do this by utilizing material requirements planning (MRP) to evaluate our supply chain, track on-hand and future inventory levels, monitor active orders and gather dependent demand from our customers to ensure production schedules and deliveries are met. Within this role you will initiate the procurement phase to purchase parts from external vendors, send out Government Furnished Materials (GFP), monitor the orders progress, collaborate with vendors, and ensure the material is received, inspected and delivered to their final customers. You will also integrate with each production area you support to better understand their production needs, incorporate their schedules/deliveries and assist with problem solving. The planner monitors, communicates, and reports to management the status of raw materials; proactively identifies issues that have the potential to impact the production build plan or the product development schedules, and works with appropriate personnel including technical and engineering staff, quality assurance personnel, procurement, and development product realization teams to mitigate risk and implement recovery plans as required.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Work with various production operations and product development organizations to develop, implement and execute material requirements planning (MRP) activities to support new product and development builds, internal production builds and external customer delivery schedules
• Ensure the availability and flow of procured materials to our customers.
• Monitor planned/open orders, create purchase requests to procurement, establish/manage safety stock levels, ensure the accuracy of MRP planning parameters (lead-times, yields, etc.), forecasting material demand, completing what-if analysis and establishing/monitoring materials budget.
• Work with procurement, engineers, shipping and receiving, quality technologists, warehouse staff, inspection facilities and vendors to ensure materials are stocked and available for production needs.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

$87,400 - $168,800

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field plus 5 years of relevant experience; or equivalent (MS + 1 year of experience, AS + 9 years of experience, or no degree + 13 years of experience)
• Experience with Materials Resource Planning (MRP) systems, utilizing industry standard and/or related business practices
• An active DOE Q clearance, or equivalent is required to start

• Experience working in manufacturing environment with knowledge of industry standard Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP) system and related business practices.
• Understanding of Lean Six Sigma concepts, methods, and tools (visual pull signals, flow, kanbans, standard work processes, etc.) and experience in the application of the tools toward continuous improvement
• Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and ability to work effectively in diverse team environments
• Demonstrated leadership and/or project management skills
• Experience working with DOD, DOE, or other highly regulated manufacturing operation.
• Familiar with industry standard quality management systems (AS9100, ISO9000)
• Evidence of high academic achievement
• Certified in APICS professional certification programs (Production and Inventory Management, Integrated Resource Management, or Supply Chain Professional)

Purchased Product Value Stream is a dynamic highly integrated team that is responsible for product engineering and materials planning for nuclear weapons design, development and production activities. We provide technical leadership in the various engineering subject areas (mechanical, chemical, materials science & electrical) to identify, develop, deliver, assure, and sustain a commercial supply base for weapon components, materials, sub-assemblies and custom tooling. We deliver innovative solutions for nuclear weapon part procurement in the design, development, and production phases. We anticipate and manage risk within the nuclear weapons supply chain, researching alternate materials, defining and developing test/evaluation methodologies, developing design of experiments, identifying and developing supplier capabilities and leading qualification activities. We provide materials planning expertise; using industry standard materials planning processes and tools to initiate the procurement phase and monitor the supply chain to meet product realization schedules.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

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