The Production planner is responsible for creating, maintaining, and optimizing production schedules to ensure products are manufactured efficiently, delivered on time, and aligned with customer demand, inventory targets, labor availability, and operational capacity. This role acts as a key link between operations, Supervisors, planning, OPL, procurement, ISC PM, and manufacturing teams.
You will report directly to our Sr Materials Mgmt Manager and you’ll work onsite out of our Cambridge, ON location.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules.
- Use the 1PS Schedule to understand ‘what’ needs to be done, and the Production Schedule is the ‘how’ to meet the requirement by product and cell
- Create the Work packages from the 1PS, manage hours with capacity. Post in the lab and work with area leads to ensure alignment and attainment
- Work with Material Planner for CTB and SITE 1PS Planner to sequence production orders to maximize skillsets, demand alignment and throughput.
- Balance customer demand, inventory levels, skillset availability, and production capacity with the OPL.
- Adjust schedules in response to material shortages, machine downtime, priority changes, or operational disruptions.
- Release and monitor work orders.
- Develop and maintain cell/operation capability matrix
- Majority of time to be spent in the lab/operations ensuring the schedules are met
- Analyze production capacity, identify bottlenecks, and coordinate labor, equipment, and material resources to ensure efficient production operations.
- Recommend scheduling, line balancing, and workflow improvements to increase output, reduce idle time, and optimize production flow.
- Coordinate with Material Planning, Purchasing, and Inventory teams to ensure timely availability of raw materials and uninterrupted production operations.
- Monitor inventory levels, support cycle count activities, and maintain inventory accuracy to prevent shortages, excess stock, and material discrepancies.
- Communicate production schedules, priorities, and risks to cross-functional teams, collaborating with procurement, quality, maintenance, logistics, and leadership to ensure on-time customer deliveries.
- Monitor production performance and schedule adherence, generate KPI reports and dashboards, and analyze trends to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
The Honeywell Aerospace building is a controlled goods program environment. Candidates must be eligible for CGP and CSP security clearance.
MUST HAVE:
- Diploma or Degree in Supply Chain Management, Materials Management, Operations Management
- Minimum 1 year of experience in production scheduling, planning, manufacturing, operations, or supply chain.
WE VALUE:
- ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, JD Edwards, etc.)
- Advanced Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, forecasting)
- Combination of office and lab presence (Majority in the lab)
- May require schedule flexibility during peak production periods
- Scheduling and capacity planning tools
- Data analysis and reporting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to manage competing priorities
- High attention to detail
- Decision-making under pressure
The annual base salary range for this position is $60,000 to $80,000 in Cambridge, ON. Please note that this salary information serves as a general guideline. Honeywell Aerospace considers various factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education and training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations.
This position is for a current vacancy.
About Honeywell Aerospace:
Join a company that's reintroducing itself to the aviation community we've helped advance for more than a century. At Honeywell Aerospace (NASDAQ: HONA), we're launching as an independent, publicly traded aerospace and defense company built on a legacy of operational excellence and mission-focused execution.
Our new brand identity pairs that heritage with real momentum, as we build technology that helps pilots navigate with confidence, aircraft operate more efficiently, and operators stay ahead of change. With our systems on board 90% of the world's aircraft, your work here has reach that's rare to find anywhere else.
Focusing on our customers, investing in innovation, and building a culture of accountability and performance is how we're shaping what comes next.
Every horizon. Every mission. Every day.
Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Skills Required
- Diploma or Degree in Supply Chain Management, Materials Management, or Operations Management
- Minimum 1 year experience in production scheduling, planning, manufacturing, operations, or supply chain
- Eligibility for CGP and CSP security clearance (Controlled Goods Program environment)
- Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, JD Edwards)
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, forecasting)
- Familiarity with scheduling and capacity planning tools and data analysis/reporting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication/stakeholder management
- Ability to be present in lab/operations (majority on-site) and schedule flexibility during peak periods
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Aerospace Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by The Aerospace Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.
The Aerospace Corporation Insights
What We Do
The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
Why Work With Us
We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.
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