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We are on a mission to unlock a new era of autonomy, advanced mobility, and infrastructure resilience by delivering precise, secure, and robust positioning services to the world.\nWe’re not here to incrementally improve GNSS. We’re here to redefine it from the ground up.\nWe’re looking for a Production Planner / Scheduler to take ownership for the planning, scheduling, tracking and capacity management of our satellite production facility.\nAs a critical team member of the production team, this role will ensure the correct work orders, staffing schedules and equipment priorities are aligned to deliver completed satellites on time.\nThe production planner will work closely with Supply Chain, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Program Management. They will translate the master production schedule into an efficient material release schedule to orchestrate all production activities efficiently. They will also proactively identify and resolve material, schedule and production constraints in support of the production ramp-up and to achieve the targeted, consistent build cadence.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nManage the master production schedule and coordinated work order releases into the production facility.\n\nWork in close partnership with the supply chain and materials team to coordinate the work order release, capacity planning, material kitting and inventory staging in accordance with the established production plan.\n\nManage all schedule changes/issues and adjustments and perform impact analysis and modelling as needed to best optimize production efficiency.\n\nMonitor all work-in-progress activities, ensuring that ECO’s, NCR’s or material supplier issues are managed and coordinated swiftly and effectively.\n\nManage daily production control as an active participant of shop-floor production stand-up meetings and other scheduled operations reviews.\n\nUse digital tools: MRP, MES, etc. to optimize production planning activities and schedule coordination across cells/teams/shifts/sites.\n\nSupport both short-term and long-term planning activities, to facilitate effective people and equipment capacity planning and budgeting.\n\nActively improve and optimize the planning processes and activities over time in the Xona HQ facility and in close collaboration with the Montreal facility team.\n\nDesired Qualifications\nHolds a bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or related technical discipline. 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