Principal Specialist, Scheduling Jobs
Listed on 2026-08-16
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Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing & Industrial Operations, Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma
Principal Specialist, Scheduling
At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling - to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.
Raytheon has an opening for a Principal Specialist, Scheduling in our Andover, MA facility. The successful candidate has experience with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) systems in a manufacturing environment and utilizes data-driven decision making to enable effective material and workforce forecasting. This role requires daily interaction with cross functional teams, programs, and business units to maintain and meet organizational goals and objectives.
These groups include planning, production control, operations, quality, and manufacturing/test/design engineering.
What You Will Do:
- Material Availability Analysis, Tracking, and Reporting.
- Manage Kit Readiness including working with cross-functional team in BOM, Material Master, Process Engineering, Operations, and Document Control
- Releasing production orders in MRP system and confirming in shop floor system.
- Coordinating the kitting process with multiple stores and consolidation areas
- Provide production floor support including replacement part management, shop floor material staging, Work in Progress (WIP) movement through shared resource areas, completion of units in shop floor and MRP system, delivery to next step (inventory or shipment), and meeting MRP schedule.
- Controlling the physical disposition of nonconforming or specially handled material including Return to Vendor, purged material, WIP STOP per contractual restrictions, and configuration of components/sub-assemblies as required.
- Maintaining integrity of the shop floor, MRP, and inventory systems through key performance metrics.
- Processing piece part movement to support internal build requirements through subcontractors, internal shared resources, and other Raytheon Technologies facilities.
- This will be an onsite role in our Andover, MA facility.
Qualifications You Must Have:
- Typically requires A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years experience.
- Experience to include planning, scheduling, production control, supply chain, or manufacturing.
- Experience with MRR/ERP
Qualifications We Prefer:
- Experience utilizing lean manufacturing concepts with a proven track record of lean or six sigma project implementations.
- Experience with Special program access.
- Experience with Wave track and in Material and Inventory Control-type systems such as Kanban, SMI, Continuous Flow Manufacturing.
- Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook).
What We Offer
- Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value:
Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
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Onsite:
Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
This position requires a security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website.
As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.
The salary range for this role is 86,800 USD - 165,200 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and…
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