Contract 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, depending on level.

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing systems 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 critical constraints.
• Develop planning processes for programs spanning multiple factories, including capacity, tooling, material allocation, and schedule synchronization.
• Plan inter-factory logistics, material and sub-assembly movement, customs lead times, packaging, inventory buffers, and site hand-offs.
• Support S&OP activities, reporting tools, process improvements, and documented planning standards aimed at 99% on-time delivery.

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 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 United States and be eligible to work there.

Nice to have

• Experience in a startup, consulting, or high-growth manufacturing environment.
• Experience with multi-site manufacturing programs, inter-site logistics, transit and customs lead times, and buffer strategy.
• Experience with multiple manufacturing process families such as additive, casting, machining, composites, extrusion, or joining.
• Experience implementing planning or supply-chain processes and work instructions.
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Primavera, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or advanced Excel.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional environment with regular exposure to an active manufacturing floor.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
• Paid parental leave and comprehensive HMO or Premium PPO health coverage.
• Company-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Equity plan, discretionary incentive opportunities, and reimbursement for learning and development.