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Senior Supply Chain Planner

Impulse Space

Impulse Space

Operations
Posted on Oct 16, 2024
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As a Sr. Supply Chain Planner at Impulse, you will work with engineering, supply chain sourcing team, and production to support material and vehicle hardware planning to aid the design and manufacturing of our spacecrafts. You will be responsible for master scheduling and demand planning at the program and sub-assembly level for fulfillment of critical vehicle hardware and production enabling components.

Department
Manufacturing
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Redondo Beach
Workplace type
Onsite
Compensation
$90,000 - $120,000 / year
Reporting To
Eunice Sun, Supply Chain Manager

Responsibilities

  • Maintain BOM configurations and vehicle configurations.
  • Investigate and initiate data integrity related to PO’s, receipts, inventory, revisions, work orders, and demand signals.
  • Generate demand signals based on inputs from BOMs, inventory, accurate lead times, build schedule, procurement activities, and open work orders to ensure clear to build for production.
  • Thorough and detailed management of multiple top-level configurations of vehicles into MRP and coordination with components planner for sub-assemblies to ensure accurate signals are triaged and actioned.
  • Drive strategic decision making for sourcing, make/buy, delivery, and production schedule for both pathfinder builds and production ramp.
  • Manage an efficient New Product Introduction with engineering, supply chain, and production to not only enable build start, but also to support production, test, and integration readiness.
  • Make critical risk decisions for high cost and long lead components within an early design environment to ensure parts are delivered on time, while minimizing expenditures.
  • Support in procurement activities such as quoting and PO issuance if needed.
  • Monitor receipts, purchase orders, inventory, BOM revision configuration, and work order accuracy to drive clean demand signals.
  • Collaborate with production and manufacturing engineering to understand production and build schedule on pathfinder builds and products.
  • Flow down status and action drivers or blockers to all stakeholders to enable proactive communication and teamwork.
  • Top level assembly configurations of new designs and upkeep BOM configuration to match MRP.
  • Work with design & manufacturing engineers to populate and maintain the bill of materials
  • Manage forecasting of parts from multiple teams and disciplines through numerous suppliers to meet schedule.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience working with engineering, material/production planning, operations/supply chain management, or master scheduling
  • 4+ years’ demonstrated experience working with ERP or inventory systems
  • 2+ years’ experience procuring and managing vendor relations

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • 6+ years’ working in purchasing, contract negotiations, material, production planning, or master production scheduling within a production/manufacturing environment
  • Understanding of manufacturing processes related to mechanical components
  • Detail-oriented, and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
  • Demonstrated experience building dashboard tools to automate repetitive daily tasks
  • Remarkable problem-solving skills with a bias for speed and accuracy
  • Strong track record of leadership and team building skills
  • Lean or continuous improvement experience or ability to build dashboard tools to eliminate repetitive daily tasks
  • Self-motivated, quick learner, and ability to prioritize efforts to meet customer and company goals
  • Strong technical ability to read drawings and blueprints, understanding of manufacturing processes
  • Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external supplier relationships in a fast-moving and ever-changing environment.
  • Value add engineering abilities that improve part quality, delivery, and cost.
  • Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, highly self motivated.
  • Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated and tracked results compared to goals.
  • Effective written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
  • Technical knowledge and skills in coding and computer applications, (e.g. MS Office Suite, VBA, Smartsheet, SQL, Confluence, JIRA, Power BI, etc.)
Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.


To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

About Impulse Space

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

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