ENGINEERING MATERIAL PLANNER

Responsibilities : JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary and Objective

The Engineering Material Planner plays an integral role as the primary liaison between Supply Chain and the Program Engineering team. This person will create and execute Material Product Strategies and the Material Product Plans to ensure the flawless execution of products and programs from the front end of the business through contract closure. A qualified and ambitious candidate will have the opportunity to combine communication and analytical skills with creativity to lead Blue Halo toward achieving greater operational efficiency and growth. The ideal candidate will have a passion for accelerating the success of a rapidly growing business. The candidate will possess a strong understanding of defense programs to be able to contribute to the organizational strategic execution planning process. The position allows a candidate to focus on improving the operations of running a small business while working in an innovative environment with regular interactions with leaders, staff, and suppliers.

Essential Functions

• Individual will be expected to be a focal point in the organization, prioritization, and scheduling of tasks associated with hardware procurement and build activity in conjunction with Engineering Leads, Program Leads, Quality personnel, Finance, internal or external manufacturing facilities as well as other elements within Engineering, and Supply Chain Management.
• Must be able to work in conjunction with engineering to develop accurate Bill of Materials (BOMs) from the technical baseline within a few days of proposal kickoff, control changes in the BOM during the proposal process, and promptly flow any changes to material estimating and develop a strategy to get representative costs.
• Individual will be responsible for ensuring quality, cost, and schedule requirements are met for engineering hardware and identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
• Monitor procurement performance metrics and proactively acts to address program and functional issues.
• Manage the system of collecting program organizational needs. Conduct planning and executing to those needs to include reporting of metrics.
• Strong Earned Value Management and Financial management skills, including Material EACs and Material Forecasting.
• Derive insights from current operations to recommend organizational improvements in all phases of supply chain and program management.
• Work with engineering and manufacturing teams to build proper infrastructure for growth.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Competencies

Work Environment

This job operates in professional and secure office and laboratory environment. This position routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, fax machines, and other equipment as needed.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type

Full-time position / Flex Schedule

Travel

Primary Location

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Relocation Available

Clearance Required

Clearance Level Required

Secret

Qualifications :

Required Education and Experience

Preferred Education and Experience

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Company Overview :

BlueHalo is purpose-built to provide industry-leading capabilities in the domains of Space Superiority and Directed Energy, Air and Missile Defense and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), and Cyber and Intelligence. BlueHalo focuses on inspired engineering to develop, transition, and field next generation capabilities to solve the most complex challenges of our customer's critical missions and reestablish our national security posture in the near-peer contested arena.

BlueHalo employees are motivated by mission and innovation, driven to deliver capabilities never delivered before, and compelled to operate with the highest level of integrity. Our mission to Lead the Transformation of Modern Warfare paves a path for our employees to experience and influence next-generation solutions to protect our Nation.

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