Project Planning Specialist

Oceaneering Technologies (OTECH) develops, manufactures, and operates customized marine systems, shipboard equipment, subsea vehicles, and engineered solutions for commercial and U.S. military vessels.

Oceaneering Aerospace and Defense Technologies (AdTech) delivers solutions that enable humans to work safely and effectively in harsh environments - from underwater to the outer reaches of space. Our innovative solutions support the development and application of practical, cost-effective systems that meet our customers' challenges - from routine to extreme. Our experience and expertise across multiple industries uniquely positions us as a leader in the government, space, and maritime services markets.

Our products and services meet the rigorous demands of the complex environments in which they operate, delivering results without compromising safety or reliability.

Oceaneering is a global provider of engineered services and products, primarily to the offshore energy industry. We develop products and services for use throughout the lifecycle of an offshore oilfield, from drilling to decommissioning. We operate the world's premier fleet of work class ROVs. Additionally, we are a leader in offshore oilfield maintenance services, umbilicals, subsea hardware, and tooling. We also use applied technology expertise to serve the defense, entertainment, material handling, aerospace, science, and renewable energy industries.

The Oceaneering Ocean Technologies (OTECH) group is seeking a Project Planning Specialist to oversee and manage the time-phased acquisition of material in support of OTECH program execution. The Project Planning Specialist will ensure the organization has the material it needs by forecasting requirements, tracking project performance, and keeping up with demand to ultimately create strategic plans within the program benefiting both the program and the OTECH customer.

The Project Planning Specialist communicates and coordinates within the Program team to provide guidance and recommendations regarding program planning to managers, engineering staff, and support staff in OTECH. As needed, the Project Planning Specialist will support other program planning activities in addition to material planning.

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert and primary point of contact in Planning to the Program Management and Purchasing teams
• Independently perform material requirements planning alongside program stakeholders.
• Create and manage Purchase Requisition s.
• Measure operational performance (material delivery receipts, project delivery schedules, material on-time delivery, and program financial health).
• Manages data and reports to create a time-phased material plan that supports the program schedule and cost objectives, developing acquisition and production schedules.
• Proactively identifies, communicates, and mitigates schedule execution issues. Facilitates resolution of cross functional issues as appropriate.
• Works with manufacturing/production, cost accounting, logistic managers and support personnel, and with supply chain management (SCM) to understand, coordinate, monitor, and report schedule and execution variances.
• Understand the manufacturing/production build sequence to best support the overall production schedule.
• Provide feedback to Manufacturing Leads and Production Leads on the status of open items to ensure on-time completion of schedule milestones.
• Reports variances to management as required.
• Review Bills of Materials and schedules and identify risks/problem issues. Develop work arounds, contingencies, and expedite materials/information as required.
• Audit the data integrity of the Material Resource Planning (MRP) application in the organization's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, including but not limited to Item Master Attribute and Manufacturing Plans.
• Defines and develops material sourcing strategy.
• Develops, coordinates, and executes material forecasting and material delivery schedule.
• Participates in make/buy process, long-term capacity and resource planning; manufacturing ramp-up.
• Analyze purchase material supply/demand position using Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools.
• Monitor inventory levels based on dependent and independent Bill-of-Materials (BOM) requirements.
• Receive/review requirements for non-standard parts.
• Analyze lead times and identify critical path procurements.
• Prioritize and communicate impacts of current and potential material shortages, delays and risks.
• Collaborate cross functionally with supplier quality, engineering, quality, production and other support functions.
• Responsible for training and developing other team members on industry standard practices.
• Practice CI (Continuous Improvement) concepts to improve processes. Propose possible solutions to problems identified.
• Help to develop and implement new process, procedures, and efficiency techniques as necessary.
• Other duties as required.

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or…