The planner coordinates workflow and materials in manufacturing, ensuring compliance with specifications and creating work orders and documentation.
Reports to: Quality Supervisor
Location: Seattle, WA
Type: Full-Time
Schedule: 2nd Shift (Monday- Friday;1:00pm - 9:30pm)
Job Summary:
The planner will coordinate and expediates the flow of work and materials within or between departments according to daily and weekly production schedules.
Responsibilities:
- Review and comprehend specifications to ensure the company is in compliance with customer processing requirements
- Verify customer purchase orders to ensure that the company can comply with process requirements
- Develop a detailed, step by step work instruction for manufacturing of complex machine details and the assembly of aircraft components
- Determine the requirement of additional sketches and aides Analyze customer engineering drawings and models to determine configuration changes
- Understand the MRP system to maintain the database and generate work orders and related documentation
- Create work order and certification documents to provide flow down of information and objective evidence of specification and conformance
- Comprehend supplied purchase orders and blueprints for proper flow down to process
- Plan and schedule workflow for each department and operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times
- Provide technical support to internal departments and outsourcing vendor bases
Qualifications:
- Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
•Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
•Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience.
•Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
•Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
•Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
•Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
•Goal Oriented - Ability to focus on a goal and obtain a pre-determined result.
•Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
•Responsible - Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct.
•Self-Motivated - Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one's ability using his or her own drive or initiative.
•Initiative - Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
•Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
•Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
•Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
•Research Skills - Ability to design and conduct a systematic, objective, and critical investigation.
•Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
Requirements:
- Education: High School Graduate or General Education Degree (Required)
Benefits:
- Compensation Range: $21.30 - $26.00
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Employer Paid Basic Life, Supplemental Life Insurance, 401k with a 3% Employer Match
- Generous Paid Time Off Program
- 7 Holidays and 2 Floater Holiday
- On-the-job training,
- Join a great company with opportunities for growth!
Work Environment:
Temperatures in the work environment can fluctuate with outside weather conditions. Due to the manufacturing environment, Personal Protection Equipment may be required including safety glasses, goggles, aprons, rubber boots, gloves, and a respirator (provided by Company).
Equal Opportunity EmployerThis employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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