Planning Manager

Description

who We Are Vigor Marine Group is an established, innovative, integrated partner with a national footprint in marine maintenance and modernization, marine fabrication, and marine services. With four shipyards, six dry docks, and more than 20,000 feet of pier space on or near U.S. Naval bases and at historic shipyards, our 2,500 dedicated employees across four states - from the Pacific Northwest to San Diego to Norfolk - personify the values of our company.

Vigor Marine Group takes pride in being the employer of choice for our employees, who in turn take great pride in their contributions to the communities where they live and work, and to their nation – through their living wage jobs supporting their local economies, and through the world‑class maritime and industrial services they provide to further our defense readiness and national security.

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Responsible for the development and administration of scheduling and production control processes in support of fabrication/manufacturing operations. Manages the Planning and Production Control group consisting of a Production Controller and a combination of coordinators that support scheduling and production control activities. Responsible for providing the Production Management team with data and information tools to plan, manage, execute, and improve fabrication labor activities.

Responsible for providing scheduling deliverables to Project Management for monitoring project performance and reporting progress to customers.

(This list is not intended to detail all aspects of the assigned work but is representative of the job’s overall responsibilities)

• Manages Planning and Production Control group personnel.
• Participates in build plan strategy development to develop perspective and expertise useful in development of effective project schedules.
• Work with control of project schedules using input from Project Management, Production Management, and others.
• Assists in progressing project schedules and providing updated plans for reaching milestones on time.
• Responsible for maintaining the IFS job structure, and score cards. Ensures alignment across the data tools to facilitate accuracy and confidence in information outputs from each.
• Ensures score card content are optimized for alignment to build strategies.
• Assists in providing Production Management with detailed and aggregate labor plans to support daily labor allocation, hiring plans, and labor forecasting.
• Responsible for supporting electronic timekeeping process flow including generation, updating, and distribution of bar codes and management of IFS work locations.
• Responsible for facilitating the distribution and recovery of work packages to production.
• Assists in Estimate At Complete (EAC) reviews to assess schedule and cost performance.
• Responsible for maintaining asset schedules for yard infrastructure capacity planning.

• Project Management for the release and distribution of work packages.
• FP&A for collaboration in collecting and communicating cost data needed for continuous improvement activities.
• Responsible for developing, coordinating, and providing Production Management with reports and information tools to make informed decisions and monitor operational performance. This includes establishing and refining KPIs and performance metrics.
• Responsible for analyzing and communicating trends in schedule, KPIs, and performance metrics and may make recommendations to Production Management.
• Drives continuous improvement activities focused on Scheduling and Production Control processes.
• Train Project Managers and Ship Superintendents on professional planning processes and methods.

This is a critical position to the success of the Production Management team. The Planning Manager is responsible for ensuring the Production Management team is positioned to plan and execute projects with accurate, updated information and for maintaining systems that support the flow of information and tools to make informed decisions. This position operates with minimal…