Manufacturing Planner

Manufacturing Planner

Are you looking for an opportunity that will improve your technical skills, make a difference and drive improvements? Do you enjoy working in the technical function and driving improvements as part of a cross functional team? Do you like fast paced environments that allow you to utilize and grow your technical knowledge and skills, multi-task, drive engineering compliance, and implement new technology and processes?

Essner is seeking an Manufacturing Planner to support engineering compliance, and business improvements in a fast paced, high mix (product and customer) manufacturing business to achieve safety, quality, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction metrics. The ideal team member will have experience in planning, process improvement, engineering document management, and project management. The team member will also support, as part of the Engineering team, precision machining, welding, assembly, chemical processing (and paint), heat treat of Aluminum, and/or sheet metal fabrication.

If this position is what you are looking for, please complete our application at the following link:

https://go.apply.ci/s/0D55BA0000

Essner Manufacturing (www.essner.com) is a growing company based in Ft. Worth, TX supplying precision CNC machined and sheet metal components as well as complex sub-assemblies and welded assemblies to the aerospace and defense industries. We offer competitive benefits, 401K, PTO, flexible holiday policy and education reimbursement.

Reports to
Technical Director

Key Responsibilities:

• Tooling Compliance - Administer tooling compliance, control process, and maintain applicable procedures
• Drawing Management – Maintain configuration control and management according to a standardized documented process
• Customer Specifications - Administer/maintain customer specification documents
• Audits - Support, as part of a cross-functional team, process and product audits
• Support root cause analysis for internal defects, customer non-conformances, and internal and 3rd part audits
• Create and update engineering planning procedures
• Control distribution of required engineering documentation
• Engineering Change Process/Liaison Support—Review shop engineering change requests (ECR’s) and demonstrate efficient closure/implementation of improvements.
• Review and update manufacturing methods based on customer engineering revisions
• Work with manufacturing engineers to develop customer specific process templates
• Metrics - Maintain engineering metrics for contract review, NPI process, turnbacks, etc…
• Drive and maintain continuous improvement activities in Engineering. Support product lean events
• Administer MRB process through Engineering in coordination with Quality MRB
• Utilize Essner MRP system to initiate required engineering reports
• Conduct training as required for engineering and support functions
• Administration of the contract review and NPI process in Engineering
• Support Special Process activities
• Support the Quality function as required