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At our Berthoud, Colorado campus, we design and build advanced liquid rocket engines using modern manufacturing methods, vertically integrated teams, and a culture that values ownership, urgency, and highquality hardware. If you thrive in a fastpaced, handson environment where your work directly impacts real hardware and real missions, you'll fit right in.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Planning Manager to build and lead our componentlevel demand, supply, and capacity planning function. This peopleleader role owns consensus demand and its accuracy metrics, roughcut capacity planning (RCCP) with Operations, and production of a constrained, feasible supply plan by segment ahead of every Executive SIOP.

You'll manage a growing team of planners and be responsible for demand planning accuracy, supply plan alignment and adherence, and capacity visibility.

What You'll Do

Demand Planning & Forecast Accuracy

• Lead the team to publish a demand plan by segment every SIOP cycle, aligned to the company calendar.
• Own consensus demand and the demand accuracy metric at the segment level.
• Baseline forecast accuracy and bias, then set and drive improvement targets; monitor MAPE, bias, and related metrics.

RoughCut Capacity Planning & Feasible Supply Plans

• Model capacity, constraints, and material availability to determine what the system can actually produce via the RCCP.
• Produce constrained, feasible supply plans that are signed off before each Executive SIOP and aligned with real capacity, lead times, and material constraints.
• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing to resolve capacity bottlenecks and tradeoffs (e.g., resequencing, overtime, outsourcing).

Plan Adherence & Execution Discipline

• Define and track plan adherence metrics (e.g., schedule adherence to supply plan) for each segment; baseline and set improvement targets.
• Work with Operations and Programs to address root causes of nonadherence and drive behavior change.
• Validate planning outputs against ERP/master data; trace MRP anomalies to root cause and work with data owners to correct them instead of relying on workarounds.
• Ensure plans respect validated order lead times; prevent commitments outside agreed leadtime assumptions and correct when assumptions change.
• Build controls (validity checks, rootcause analysis, corrective actions) into planning routines to reduce error and increase agility. 

Team Leadership & CrossFunctional Integration

• Manage and develop a team of planners
• Act as a playercoach by carrying planning responsibility
• Integrate segmentlevel outputs (demand, supply, capacity) into the broader SIOP cadence, partnering closely with Planning Operations and analytics teammates.
• Prepare executivefacing materials (dashboards, slide decks, summaries) that make complex planning data understandable and actionable for leadership.

InYear Planning, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Lead the transition of availabletopromise and other key planning logic out of spreadsheets and into Odoo, eliminating spreadsheetvalidated commitments.
• Identify process and data gaps within planning operations and commercial operations; drive improvements with a focus on automation and reduced manual work.

What You'll Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field.
• Significant experience in demand planning, supply planning, and capacity planning within a manufacturing environment (aerospace or defense preferred).
• Experience owning forecast accuracy metrics and leading planning cycles.
• Demonstrated ownership of forecast accuracy metrics and consensus demand processes.
• Handson experience with RCCP and constrained supply planning with Operations.
• Peopleleadership experience managing planners or analysts (3-6+ direct reports) in a crossfunctional environment.
• Experience working with ERP planning data and master data (e.g., MRP, ATP, lead times) in a regulated or complex manufacturing context.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications or training in production planning, supply chain, or operations (e.g., APICS/ASCM CPIM, CSCP, or similar).
• Experience moving planning logic out of spreadsheets and into ERP or other advanced tools.
• Experience in highvolume, highmix, or engineertoorder environments.
• 2+ years of experience in planning, machining production control, shop scheduling, or related roles.
• Experience operating within a SIOP/IBP framework and feeding outputs into executive forums.
• Familiarity with order leadtime validation, availabletopromise logic, and ERP planning data (Odoo experience a plus).
• Aerospace or defense manufacturing experience is helpful but not required; candidates from other manufacturing industries are encouraged to apply.

Colorado law requires us to tell you the base compensation range of this role, which is $120,000 - $151,000, determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. What we can't quantify for you are the exciting challenges, supportive team, and amazing culture we enjoy. 

Classification: Full-time Exempt