Production Project Planner (Manufacturing)

Location: On-site in Long Beach or Torrance, California, United States, with periodic travel to other company sites and supplier or logistics partner locations.

Salary: $94,610–$150,210 USD annually.

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing solutions for automotive, aerospace, and defense customers.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain integrated program schedules from proposal through part release and delivery.
• Track progress, identify schedule variances, and coordinate corrective actions with engineering and program teams.
• Build multi-material plans that account for lead times, qualification paths, process maturity, and material constraints.
• Develop planning processes for multi-factory programs, including capacity, tooling, material allocation, and synchronized schedules.
• Plan inter-factory logistics, including material and sub-assembly movement, transit and customs lead times, packaging, buffers, and inventory placement.
• Define cross-site hand-off data requirements and develop reporting tools for program status across materials, sites, and logistics lanes.

Requirements

• Must be able to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls.
• Progressive experience in planning, operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, or consulting.
• Experience creating and maintaining integrated schedules with milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Experience coordinating work across multiple production sites, processes, or material systems, including material movement.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Must work on-site in the facility and use personal protective equipment on the manufacturing floor.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-site or multi-factory manufacturing programs and inter-site logistics.
• Knowledge of multiple manufacturing process families, such as additive, casting, machining, composites, extrusion, or joining.
• Experience creating and implementing planning or supply-chain processes and work instructions.
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or Primavera.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with SQL, Power BI, or Tableau.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional manufacturing environment.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and year-end shutdown.
• Paid parental leave and HMO or Premium PPO health coverage.
• Company-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Equity plan, discretionary incentive bonuses, and learning and development reimbursement.