Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GE Aerospace is an aerospace company offering the Military DoD SkillBridge program to service members in their final 180 days of service. The Senior Operations Planning Analyst develops and maintains production and operations schedules, aligns planning with capacity and material availability, analyzes schedule risks, and drives recovery and continuous improvement across cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Own development, maintenance, and execution support of production and operations schedules for assigned value streams, product lines, programs, or sites
- Translate demand, backlog, forecast, and business priorities into executable schedules aligned with capacity, labor, material availability, and operational constraints
- Analyze schedule attainment, loading, throughput, bottlenecks, and resource constraints to identify risks and recommend corrective actions
- Partner with manufacturing, materials, sourcing, logistics, quality, and program teams to align schedules with operational readiness and customer commitments
- Lead schedule reviews and planning routines to communicate priorities, risks, constraints, and recovery plans
- Monitor schedule adherence, past due orders, recovery progress, and output performance; escalate issues that may impact delivery or business commitments
- Perform scenario analysis to evaluate schedule options, tradeoffs, and impacts to capacity, fulfillment, and customer delivery
- Drive schedule stabilization through improved planning logic, operating discipline, and cross-functional action management
- Develop and maintain planning dashboards, reports, and metrics related to schedule attainment, backlog, constraint management, and on-time delivery
- Support operating cadences including daily management, weekly reviews, and leadership updates with clear, data-driven insights
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to improve schedule accuracy, flow, visibility, and predictability
Skills
- * Active Military personnel on their last 180 days of Military service
- * Significant experience in operations planning, production scheduling, supply chain, manufacturing, or related analytical roles
- * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- * Experience using ERP/MRP systems and planning or scheduling tools
- * Ability to work across functions and influence stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- * Strong ownership, accountability, and follow-through
- * Clear communicator with the ability to simplify complex scheduling issues
- * Comfortable making recommendations in a dynamic operating environment
- * Strong collaboration and influencing skills across multiple functions
- * Detail-oriented with strong process discipline
- * Continuous improvement mindset with focus on execution and customer outcomes
- This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))
- GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening
- * Experience in Aerospace, aviation, or other complex regulated manufacturing environments
- * Excel and data analysis capability
- * Experience leading planning reviews, schedule recovery efforts, and cross-functional action tracking
- * Knowledge of operational metrics including plan attainment, schedule adherence, throughput, backlog, and on-time delivery
Benefits
- The Military DoD SkillBridge program provides Service members with valuable civilian work experience through specific industry training, apprenticeships, or internships during the last 180 days of service.
- Up to 180 days of permissive duty to focus solely on training full-time with approved industry partners, subject to unit commander written authorization and approval.
- Real-world training and work experience in in-demand fields of work.
- Professional development.
- A great work environment.
- Challenging careers.
- Remote position.
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