Planning Engineer

Join an established aerospace manufacturing organization that produces highly engineered components and assemblies for industry‑leading customers. This position offers the opportunity to play a critical role in transforming customer requirements into executable manufacturing plans that drive quality, efficiency, and on‑time delivery.

As a Planning Engineer, you will work at the center of Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Program Management, helping ensure complex aerospace products are successfully launched and produced. This is a highly visible role where your ability to interpret technical requirements and build effective manufacturing plans directly impacts operational and customer success.

• Serve as a key link between customers, engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams.
• Work on high‑complexity aerospace components and assemblies supporting demanding industry requirements.
• Drive manufacturing strategy by developing travelers, routers, and production plans for precision machining and assembly operations.
• Gain exposure to the full product lifecycle, from contract review and planning through production and delivery.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional leadership teams to solve technical challenges and improve manufacturing performance.
• Influence continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, throughput, cost reduction, and process optimization.
• Participate in risk assessment and mitigation activities that directly support successful program execution.
• Work in a highly regulated environment where attention to detail, technical expertise, and process control are valued and recognized.
• Contribute to customer satisfaction by ensuring manufacturing plans accurately reflect engineering and contractual requirements.
• Join a stable and growing manufacturer that invests in operational excellence, employee development, and long‑term customer partnerships.

• Study engineering blueprints, drawings, models, and other specifications to determine customer requirements.
• Review technical and non‑technical documents that relate to contracts, specifications, purchasing, product design, manufacture and test and incorporate the requirements into the manufacturing plans.
• Coordinate technical questions, technical developments, scheduling, resolving engineering design and test problems, and corrections with company Dir. of Program Management, Engineering Director, Director of Quality, and the customer or vendor engineering or quality representatives.
• Apply knowledge of functions, and processes of various departments and capacities of machines and equipment to determine the sequence of operations for fabrication or assembly of product.
• Determine if operations require subcontractor involvement. Specify the specific work scope and requirements for all subcontracted operations including flow down of customer requirements.
• List operations to be performed on the traveler, indicate machine or equipment to be used, estimate time to set‑up and perform each operation and describe the actions to take place in layman’s terms.
• Specify type of material to be used, determine the material requirements for part fabrication, considering part size, and method of fabrication conferring with NC Programming to ensure part can be held based off method of manufacture.
• Prepare, plan, direct and coordinate Risk Management / Risk Mitigation meetings. Required attendees are Quality Assurance / Contract Review / Engineering / and Production personnel.
• Control expenditures within limitations of project budget.
• Post changes to computerized or manual control records, release documents and notifies affected departments.
• Release travelers and supporting documentation to authorized departments.
• Confer with manufacturing and quality in developing rework plans for nonconforming product.
• Support Manufacturing Operations in daily operations, process improvements, organization, inspection requirements, training, and cost reductions by clarifying requirements and improving manufacturing processes and procedures.
• Compile and maintain control of records relating to customer drawing specifications, part…