Production Controller

The future of aerospace and defense starts here.

Ursa Major was founded to revolutionize how America and its allies access and apply high-performance propulsion, from hypersonics to solid rocket motors, satellite maneuvering and launch. We design and deliver propulsion and defense systems that solve the most urgent and critical national security demands.

Ursa Major was founded to revolutionize how America and its allies access and apply high-performance propulsion, from hypersonics to solid rocket motors, satellite maneuvering and launch. We design and deliver propulsion and defense systems that solve the most urgent and critical national security demands.

As Ursa Major scales its propulsion and defense systems portfolio, the load through the work centers accelerates quickly and can become a bottle neck if it is not managed and planned appropriately. To keep hardware moving in cadence with our sales and forecast demand we must be able to plan today’s workload but also understand the needs and constraints for upcoming work.

The Production Controller will level the work load with a set plan and schedule in place to ensure hardware flows in accordance of production needs and resource constraints.

Reporting to the Manager, Material Control, this individual owns the scheduling and forecasted planning for a given work center(s).

We are looking for a Production Controller to be the executional extension of our Planning team in a designated work center. This individual contributor role owns near-term scheduling, sequencing, and execution tracking and provides accurate inputs into our 0-12 month roughcut capacity planning (RCCP) and SIOP processes.

You will sit at the center of the given Work Center, Planning, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain/Material Control, and Program teams to ensure the right work runs on the right equipment at the right time, with clear visibility into constraints, risks, and supply chain health.

Ownership:
Work Center scheduling, sequencing, and execution tracking.

• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineers (MEs) to ensure routed times and steps are accurate and reflect real execution; flag and help correct discrepancies.
• Lead the work center portion of daily & weekly meetings: present schedule, hot jobs, constraints, and risks; capture required decisions and tradeoffs.
• Communicate with stakeholders when schedules shift, including impacts to critical milestones or deliveries.
• Identify and communicate capacity restraints and bottlenecks (machines, labor, tooling, material) and help Planning and Operations evaluate priority solutions (resequencing, overtime, temporary outsourcing, etc.).
• Field change requests (priority swaps, urgent jobs, routing or design changes), assess schedule impact, propose options, and implement agreed changes both electronically in ERP and physically in queues and work boards.
• Track Manufacturing Orders (MOs) transactionally and physically to ensure Odoo status and actual WIP match; reconcile discrepancies across systems, boards, and the floor.
• Work with Material Control to resolve raw material and component issues (shortages, late receipts, substitutions, kitting gaps).
• Ensure physical and digital MO queues match; keep the Wait/Work board, Odoo, and floor reality aligned.
• Proactively chase down raw material or parts (including travelers/routers) needed to keep priority jobs moving.
• Track parts through rework (RW) and ensure rework is visible, scheduled, and properly loaded (not hidden WIP).

• Support Planning in maintaining a rolling 0-12 month profile of internal demand through work centers, used for planning production capacity, supply requirements, constraints, and rate ramps.
• Help maintain both:
  • A 0-3 month rolling view aligned with near-term execution.
  • A 6-12 month rolling view informed by realistic cycle times, rework/scrap trends, and observed bottlenecks.
• Update and utilize key capacity tools for:
  • Near-term daily capacity and load.
  • Midterm capacity views.
  • Help distill the Master Production Schedule (MPS) into a weekly and daily Production Plan…