Own and maintain the integrated production schedule for propulsion hardware, balancing capacity, material and engineering readiness. Sequence work, optimize factory utilization, support daily execution, drive schedule recovery, and coordinate cross-functionally to prevent delivery impacts while improving scheduling tools and metrics.
As the Production Scheduler, you own the production schedule for the propulsion value stream. You continuously evaluate factory capacity, material availability, engineering readiness, and manufacturing constraints to develop and maintain executable schedules that keep work flowing through the shop.
You will work closely with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Machine Shop, Receiving, and Program Management to proactively identify risks and recover schedules before they impact deliveries.
Responsibilities
Production Planning & Scheduling
- Develop and maintain the integrated production schedule for propulsion hardware.
- Convert customer, program, and manufacturing demand into executable shop schedules.
- Sequence work based on material readiness, capacity, and production priorities.
- Balance workload across manufacturing cells to maximize throughput.
- Own the daily and weekly production schedule and communicate changes to stakeholders.
- Maintain the master production schedule for propulsion hardware.
Capacity Planning
- Understand manufacturing constraints across additive manufacturing, machining, cleaning, weld, assembly, inspection, and test.
- Evaluate available labor, machine, and inspection capacity.
- Recommend schedule adjustments to optimize factory utilization.
- Identify future bottlenecks and develop recovery plans.
Material & Engineering Readiness
- Verify material availability before scheduled production starts.
- Confirm engineering releases, drawings, BOMs, routings, and work instructions are complete.
- Partner with Planning, Buyers, and Production Coordinators to resolve readiness gaps.
Factory Execution Support
- Participate in daily production standups.
- Review schedule adherence and production performance.
- Prioritize work based on changing factory conditions.
- Drive schedule recovery activities for late or blocked hardware.
- Escalate shortages, engineering issues, quality concerns, or resource constraints impacting delivery.
Cross-Functional Coordination
- Partner with:
- Manufacturing Supervisors
- Production Coordinators
- Material Handlers
- Engineering
- Supply Chain
- Quality
- Program Management
- Ensure alignment between factory priorities and program commitments.
Continuous Improvement
- Improve scheduling processes, tools, and reporting.
- Enhance ERP/MES scheduling accuracy and data quality.
- Develop scheduling metrics and dashboards.
- Drive improvements that increase factory throughput and schedule predictability.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Management, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of production scheduling, planning, production control, or manufacturing operations experience.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows and capacity planning.
- Experience working within ERP/MRP/MES systems.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of production scheduling, planning, production control, or manufacturing operations experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting high-mix, low-volume manufacturing.
- Aerospace or defense manufacturing experience.
- Experience supporting propulsion, precision machining, fabrication, or assembly operations.
- Familiarity with AS9100 manufacturing environments.
- Demonstrated experience with capacity modeling and production scheduling software.
- Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
- Familiarity with Manufacturo, Coupa, Jira, Teamcenter, or similar enterprise systems.
- Demonstrated experience with SQL, Python or other programming
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, formulas, macros, etc.)
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
About
Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
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