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Production Scheduler

Astranis· Operations
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San Francisco, CA$100k - $140kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Production Scheduler manages and owns production schedules for designated areas of the factory and production phases, coordinating with production leadership and engineering program management to create realistic, aggressive plans for building and testing flight hardware while maintaining up-to-date schedules and clear communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain detailed resource-loaded schedules for multiple factory workcenters that process flight hardware, R&D hardware, tooling, and test equipment.
  • Work closely with the production leadership team to develop and execute realistic but aggressive plans, and with the engineering program management team to integrate these schedules into end-to-end programmatic schedules.
  • Derive and communicate clear targets and priorities for every piece of hardware and process in the relevant production workcenters, and work with production managers to ensure appropriate allocation of resources, schedule accuracy and on-time delivery.
  • Identify and report on schedule risks, their impacts, and workarounds.
  • Perform quick “what if” schedule modeling and analyses on multiple possible outcomes to help make decisions on emergent risks.
  • Create, maintain, and use scheduling processes and tools to identify, analyze, and act on potential constraints on a daily/weekly basis.
  • Work with software and procurement teams to implement and maintain a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system, ensuring data accuracy.
  • Constantly communicate schedule status and changes to key stakeholders across the business, in written reports, meetings/presentations, and in automated fashion using dashboards and other tools.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or similar technical discipline, or 2+ years of professional work in the aerospace industry.
  • 2+ years of professional experience as a program manager, manufacturing engineer, or scheduler

Skills

Required:Resource-loaded schedulingcross-functional planning and coordinationSchedule risk identification and mitigationWhat-if analysis and modeling
Nice to have:MRP/ERP system familiarity

Benefits

  • equity
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Astranis

Advanced satellites for high orbits.

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization. Astranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock, and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.

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