Production Planner / Scheduler
Xona· Production
Burlingame, California$110k - $145kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Production Planner / Scheduler at Xona Space Systems responsible for planning, scheduling, tracking, and capacity management of the satellite production facility to ensure on-time delivery of completed satellites.
Responsibilities
- Manage the master production schedule and coordinated work order releases into the production facility.
- Work 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.
- Manage all schedule changes/issues and adjustments and perform impact analysis and modelling as needed to best optimize production efficiency.
- Monitor all work-in-progress activities, ensuring that ECO’s, NCR’s or material supplier issues are managed and coordinated swiftly and effectively.
- Manage daily production control as an active participant of shop-floor production stand-up meetings and other scheduled operations reviews.
- Use digital tools: MRP, MES, etc. to optimize production planning activities and schedule coordination across cells/teams/shifts/sites.
- Support both short-term and long-term planning activities, to facilitate effective people and equipment capacity planning and budgeting.
- Actively improve and optimize the planning processes and activities over time in the Xona HQ facility and in close collaboration with the Montreal facility team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or related technical discipline
- APICS or ASCM certification desirable
- Experience in aerospace, satellite, defense, medical device, semiconductor, or other high-complexity manufacturing environments preferred
- At least 2 years’ experience in a planning, production control, logistics, MRP or inventory management role essential in a rate-production facility
- Strong understanding, proficiency and experience with MRP/ERP systems
- Advanced Excel user
- Working understanding of lean manufacturing principles and QMS systems
- Data-driven decision making with risk mitigation
- Excellent organizational, communication and analytical skills
Skills
Required:Master production schedulingMRP/ERP systemsCapacity planningInventory management
Nice to have:Lean manufacturing
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Xona
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Xona is the navigation infrastructure company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth.
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