
Planning Assistant
Rancho Cordova, CAFull-time$45–59K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Planning Assistant supports production planning and scheduling for Traveling Wave Tube manufacturing at Teledyne Microwave Solutions. The role monitors work orders, material availability, and production status; helps identify issues affecting production; and coordinates with planning, manufacturing, purchasing, and other teams. It also maintains planning information, communicates schedule changes, and assists with production reports.
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Full job description
US - Rancho Cordova, CA (TDY)
Full time
REQ37471
Be visionary
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.
We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.
Job Description
Join Teledyne Microwave Solutions and help keep production plans, materials, and priorities moving in a highly technical manufacturing environment. You’ll support the Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) business, helping teams stay aligned so production requirements and commitments can be met.
What you’ll do
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Support production planning and scheduling activities for Traveling Wave Tube manufacturing.
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Maintain accurate planning, scheduling, and production information.
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Monitor work orders, material availability, and production status.
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Help identify material shortages, scheduling conflicts, and other issues that may affect production.
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Coordinate with Planning, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and other functions to resolve routine production issues.
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Communicate changes in priorities, schedules, and requirements to appropriate stakeholders.
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Assist with production reports and planning data.
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Follow established manufacturing, quality, and documentation requirements.
What you need
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Strong organizational, prioritization, and attention-to-detail skills - required
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Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration skills - required
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Ability to work with detailed production and planning information - required
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Ability to learn manufacturing processes and planning systems - required
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Experience in manufacturing, production planning, materials, or administrative support - preferred
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Experience with enterprise resource planning or material requirements planning systems - preferred
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High school diploma or equivalent - required
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Additional education in business, supply chain, or a related field - plus
What we offer
You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to sophisticated microwave technologies while building hands-on experience in manufacturing planning and working alongside teams focused on delivering high-quality products.
What happens next
Submit your application for consideration. Qualified candidates will be contacted regarding next steps in the selection process.
This position requires access to export-controlled information and/or hardware. Due to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements, applicants must qualify as a U.S. Person as defined by applicable U.S. export-control regulations.
Salary Range:
$44,500.00-$59,300.000
The anticipated salary range listed for this role is only an estimate. Actual compensation for successful candidates is carefully determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, local regulations (such as minimum wage), education/training, work experience, key skills, and type of position.
Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.
Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.
You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day .
Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.
How this job compares
Set against the 474 open Production Planning jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$45–59K/yr
- California median$88–170K/yr56 salary ranges
- US median$77–127K/yr251 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $52K, is 60% below the California median midpoint ($131K) — in the lowest quarter of Production Planning salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 68 open Production Planning jobs in California and 474 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Accenture6 open
- Northrop Grumman5 open
- NVIDIA4 open
- Experience
- Production Planning postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (361 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 168 of the 474 open Production Planning jobs (35%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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