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Supply Chain Planner
Department: Manufacturing
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Redondo Beach
Compensation: $90,000 - $120,000 / year
Description
As a Supply Chain Planner at Impulse, you will collaborate with the engineering, supply chain sourcing, and production teams to support the planning of materials and vehicle hardware essential for the design and manufacturing of our spacecraft. You will be responsible for master scheduling and demand planning at both the program and sub-assembly levels, ensuring the timely fulfillment of critical vehicle hardware and components that enable production.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and manage BOM configurations and vehicle configurations
- Investigate and resolve data integrity issues related to purchase orders (POs), receipts, inventory, revisions, work orders, and demand signals
- Generate demand signals based on inputs from BOMs, inventory levels, lead times, build schedules, procurement activities, and open work orders to ensure production readiness
- Oversee the detailed management of multiple top-level vehicle configurations in the MRP system and collaborate with component planners for sub-assemblies to ensure that demand signals are accurately processed and addressed
- Drive strategic decision-making for sourcing, make/buy decisions, delivery schedules, and production timelines for both pathfinder builds and production ramps
- Lead and manage New Product Introduction (NPI) efforts in collaboration with engineering, supply chain, and production teams to ensure build starts and support production, testing, and integration readiness
- Make critical decisions for managing high-cost and long-lead components in early design phases, ensuring on-time delivery while minimizing expenditures
- Support procurement activities, including quoting and PO issuance, when necessary
- Monitor and verify receipts, purchase orders, inventory levels, BOM revisions, and work order accuracy to ensure clean demand signals
- Collaborate with production and manufacturing engineering teams to align production and build schedules for pathfinder builds and ongoing products
- Communicate status updates, action drivers, and blockers to all stakeholders, fostering proactive communication and teamwork
- Maintain top-level assembly configurations for new designs and ensure that BOM configurations align with MRP
- Work closely with design and manufacturing engineers to populate and maintain the bill of materials (BOM)
- Oversee forecasting of parts from various teams and disciplines across multiple suppliers to ensure schedule alignment
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field
- 4 years of experience in engineering, material/production planning, operations, or master scheduling
- 4 years of demonstrated experience working with ERP or inventory systems
- 2 years of experience in procurement and vendor relationship management
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 6 years of experience in purchasing, contract negotiations, material/production planning, or master production scheduling within a production/manufacturing environment
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes related to mechanical components
- Detail-oriented with the ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Proven experience building dashboard tools to automate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on speed and accuracy
- Demonstrated leadership and team-building capabilities
- Experience with Lean or continuous improvement methodologies, or the ability to create tools that eliminate repetitive tasks
- Self-motivated, quick to learn, and skilled at prioritizing tasks to meet both customer and company goals
- Strong technical ability to read engineering drawings and blueprints, and a deep understanding of manufacturing processes
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external suppliers in a fast-paced environment
- Engineering skills that contribute to improving part quality, delivery, and cost
- Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, with a high degree of self-motivation
- Strong negotiation skills with proven results that meet or exceed goals
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
- Proficiency in technical tools and software (e.g., MS Office Suite, VBA, Smartsheet, SQL, Confluence, JIRA, Power BI)
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.
Salary : $90,000 - $120,000
