Description
RAM Aerospace has been powering flight and space exploration since 1975, delivering precision solenoids, valves, actuators, LVDTs, and RVDTs for commercial, defense, and space applications. Operating from facilities in St. George, Utah and Valencia, California, we build mission-critical components that the world's leading aerospace programs depend on. Join a team that builds the future of aerospace, on time, with excellence. Your career takes off here!
As a Value Stream Scheduler at RAM Aerospace, you play a critical role in ensuring production runs efficiently and on schedule. This position is responsible for managing ERP/APS-driven production schedules, coordinating material requirements, and collaborating across Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, Customer Support, and Production teams. By balancing customer demand, operational capacity, and material availability, you help drive schedule attainment, on-time delivery, and overall operational efficiency in a fast-paced aerospace manufacturing environment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Production Scheduling & Order Management: Generate and maintain ERP/APS-driven production schedules based on customer demand, forecasted orders, material planning, and operational capacity. Issue and manage production orders as work is scheduled, and follow orders through production to completion to ensure customer requirements and delivery schedules are met.
- Demand & Capacity Planning: Forecast shipping schedules, quantities, items, and COGS, and manage ERP/APS system settings associated with capacity, resources, and scheduling. Monitor design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, engineering demands, and other interruptions to update schedules accordingly, providing visibility into upcoming demand changes and production constraints.
- Material & Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with Purchasing and Material Planning to ensure materials are procured and available to support production schedules. Coordinate with other schedulers and Procurement to manage the flow of parts and materials between machining, plating, outside processing, assembly, inspection, and shipping, and communicate schedule impacts, changes, and risks to Operations, Customer Support, Engineering, Sales, and leadership.
- System Accuracy & APS Optimization: Maintain ERP schedule accuracy and update system parameters to support APS functionality and schedule reliability, ensuring operation times, resources, and production data within ERP remain accurate and current. Support the maintenance, implementation, and optimization of the Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system.
- Inventory & Continuous Improvement: Own consignment inventory requirements and finished goods strategies. Collaborate with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to improve product flow and production efficiency using Lean manufacturing principles.
Requirements
- Legal: Must be able to pass a comprehensive criminal background check and drug screening.
- ITAR: Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum (due to ITAR requirements).
- High school diploma or GED required. Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent related job experience.
- Proven experience in production planning, scheduling, or material planning preferred.
- Experience with ERP or MRP systems preferred.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent computational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and other computer-based systems.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Why You'll Love Working at RAM – Our Benefits
At RAM Aerospace, we believe our people are our greatest asset. That's why we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being, work-life balance, and long-term success.
Our benefits include:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance - Comprehensive coverage to keep you and your family healthy.
- Short-Term Disability & Voluntary Benefits - Additional protection and peace of mind when you need it most.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Confidential support for personal, financial, and emotional well-being.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) & Paid Holidays - Generous time off to relax, travel, and spend time with loved ones.
- Paid Parental Leave - Time to bond with your new addition and transition smoothly back to work.
- 401(K) Retirement Account - Plan for your future with our 401(K) retirement account, complete with an employer match.
- Tuition Assistance - Invest in your education and future growth with our tuition assistance program.
- Flexible Work Schedule - Balance your work and personal life with a flexible work schedule.
We are committed to creating an environment where our employees can thrive both personally and professionally.
EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity)
RAM Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. In addition, it is the policy of RAM Aerospace to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.
We welcome former military and law enforcement applicants!
