Mid Level or Senior Home Office MPS Specialists

Job Overview

Mid Level or Senior Home Office MPS Specialists. Locations:
Berkeley, MO;
Ridley Park, PA;
Huntsville, AL;
Seattle, WA;
Mesa, AZ. This position is 100% onsite and for 1st shift.

• Collaborate with Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) and Integrated Planning & Scheduling (IP&S) functional users to develop future‑state business processes and system requirements for Interorganizational Work Authorization (IWA) and sales order management, supporting end‑to‑end testing scenarios.
• Serve as the IWA and IP&S Home Office Subject Matter Expert (SME) by understanding the IWA lifecycle and providing user support for BRAIDSS and Compass contract workflows, including order management and issue resolution.
• Use data analytics to collect, clean, and validate scheduling data from various sources to ensure consistent planning and reporting outputs.
• Assess and implement process improvements to enhance schedule simulations and forecasting accuracy.

• Independently develop, coordinate, integrate, analyze, and maintain an integrated plan and schedule to meet program or project requirements in accordance with industry standards.
• Perform trend, variance, impact studies and risk assessments to determine impacts and constraints involving product development, production rates, process improvement, and program initiatives.
• Create schedule reports, metrics, change activity, and communicate and update the plan regularly throughout the program or project lifecycle.
• Improve project management processes, business systems, and implement best practices that support project decision makers.
• Direct all phases of projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion.
• Act as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
• Assist customers to develop performance recovery plans and ensure that all project control systems support ongoing stakeholder needs.

• Lead, develop, coordinate, integrate, analyze, and maintain integrated plans and schedules for complex projects, programs, and change‑driven activities in accordance with industry standards.
• Lead studies, trend/variance/impact analyses, risk assessments, and planning efforts to determine impacts and constraints involving product development, production rates, process improvement, and program initiatives.
• Identify risk and opportunity potential, develop mitigation plans, and refine the business case.
• Develop and establish lead‑time requirements.
• Facilitate and ensure integration of project/program plan, schedules, change and baseline management, and best‑practice processes across the industry.
• Act as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
• Direct all phases of projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion.
• Coordinate commitments with internal and external stakeholders to fulfill strategies.

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• 3+ years of experience in Program Planning, Project Management, Integrated Scheduling, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Operations, or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of experience partnering with cross‑functional teams on projects and initiatives.
• 2+ years of experience working with large data sets to clean, transform, and produce standardized outputs for business tools or reporting.
• 1+ year of experience using Integrated Scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project, Open Plan Professional, Primavera, etc.
• 1+ year of experience with Microsoft Office Applications.

• Basic knowledge of production scheduling methodology and/or BRAIDSS, including the IWA process, or the ability to quickly learn these processes.
• Working knowledge of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) demand planning systems.
• Experience in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) transformation projects, including designing test scenarios, conducting integration testing, and documenting system acceptance criteria for order flows and scheduling data.
• Experience querying and analyzing backend data…