R&D Manufacturing Planner

Pratt & Whitney is working to once again transform the future of flight—designing, building and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, we’re seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious.

Come ready to explore and you’ll find a place where your talent takes flight—beyond the borders of title, a country or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and we’ll welcome you into a tight-knit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry that’s evolving fast to the future.

Innovation through diversity of thought. At Pratt & Whitney, we believe diversity of thought enables creativity, innovation, and a foundation for inclusion. By fostering an inclusive culture, we accept a shared accountability and responsibility to recognize, sponsor, coach, hire and promote talent equally. We welcome our employees to be their whole - best - selves at work because trust, respect and integrity, are a part of our DNA.

At Pratt & Whitney, the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up. Are you ready to go beyond?

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Read and interpret engineering drawings, models, and descriptions

• Critically review the fabrication requirements submitted by engineering and scientific staff to determine if the scope of work is adequately described for successful fabrication.

• Work with engineering to determine preferred manufacturing methods and tools required for job completion

• Collaboration with engineering and scientific staff to obtain clarity where needed.

• Develop the manufacturing plan while collecting and consolidating labor and schedule estimates to support scientific and engineering projects.

• Provide customers with an accurate estimated labor hour and schedule for a defined scope of work.

• Overseeing the fabrication processes through completion

• Assign work and priorities to leads

• Order and track materials and tools for job requests as needed

• Develop relationships with alternative internal and external resources and vendors and coordinate manufacturing with those resources where capacity or capabilities are not available within the R&D Shop

• Manage and maintain job request tracking processes, scheduling software, and communications systems

• Collect a variety of data and statistics and produce daily, weekly, and monthly reports on progress and status

• Update and maintain R&D Shop intranet pages and communications systems

• Coordinate with customers, expediters, and shipping and receiving to ensure parts are delivered quickly and to the right destination

• Working both independently and collaboratively within a team of individual contributors to enable every member to succeed in their respective tasks

• Analyze and identify risks associated with the Production Plan, including manufacturing lead times

• Keeps operations manager and engineering team updated on status of orders

• Provides weekly production plan consistent with the company capacity and forecast

Qualifications:

Basic qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or related field,

• 8 years of equivalent work experience; or 5 years with an advance degree in R&D fabrication planning.

• Demonstrated experience with estimating and scheduling of fabrication work.

• Experience working with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems, spreadsheets and databases.

• Ability to read ANSI standard mechanical drawings of piece-parts and fabrication assembly drawings, plan a fabrication workflow, write shop travelers.

• Must be a U.S. Person/Permanent Resident “Green Card” holder

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of staff, including engineers, scientists, technicians, and fabrication staff.

• Experience coordinating R&D engineering projects.

• Previous aerospace or chemical industry experience is preferred

• Experience working within a formal quality system like ISO 9001 AS9100

• Experience in fast-paced, R&D environments

• Demonstrated mechanical and technical aptitude and experience

In addition to transforming the future of flight, we are also transforming how and where we work. We’ve introduced role types to help you understand how you will operate in our blended work environment. This role is:

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance workers, as they are essential to the development of our engines.

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.