# Senior Production Planner

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us. ABOUT PRODUCTION PLANNING Every Rocket Lab mission starts long before liftoff. It starts with a plan. As a Senior Production Planner, you'll keep that plan on track and help turn the hardware behind our launch vehicles and spacecraft into mission-ready reality. You'll own work order management and make sure our Production team always has the right work in the queue, at the right priority, and is clear to build with no blockers. You'll be a true change agent, driving continuous improvement across production, test, and launch. Working closely with Engineering, Quality, Production, Supply Chain, and Finance, you'll coordinate change management and steer the production schedule, lead times, yield, and engineering build timelines. At Rocket Lab, we're making space more accessible, and great planning is what keeps us launching. If you thrive on solving complex

- **Id**: 3593858
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rocket-lab-senior-production-planner>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Auckland, New Zealand
- **Countries**: NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-01T20:57:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T07:29:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5715
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Launch Services, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 684473
- **Name**: Rocket Lab
- **Domain**: rocketlab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rocketlab-2>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 74
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.797
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 58000
- **Max usd**: 130000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 8444

## Technologies

- **Master Data Management** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **AS9100** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T00:25:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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