Manufacturing Planner
Palmdale, CAFull-time$67–125K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Manufacturing Planner performs Make, Buy, and Bill of Material planning activities associated with MRP transactions. The role maintains production systems and MRP parameters, optimizes material flow, and coordinates with manufacturing, operations, procurement, and engineering to meet production schedules. The position requires working experience in Shop Floor Control or Production Control and the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance and Special Program Access.
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What You Will Be Doing
Performs the Make, Buy and / or Bill of Material (BOM) planning activities associated with Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) transactions. Performs one or more multiple manufacturing activities within various manufacturing functions. Maintains production systems integrity to drive inventory optimization to minimize cost. Expedites and optimizes material flow through the supply chain to meet customer requirements. Coordinates with manufacturing and Operations Management to provide shop floor control on make parts, analyzes and controls production schedule and capacity requirements, executes the plan, provides timely status and expedites or works around plans to preserve schedule. Coordinates with Supply Chain Stakeholders including Procurement and Operations Management to determine appropriate time phased plan for procured parts and executes processes to ensure deliverables meet production schedule requirements. Maintains MRP parameters including lead times and lot sizes and coordinates with Engineering and Change Board Rep to make the associated changes to the BOM. Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance and obtain Special Program Access per business requirements.
What’s In It For You: 3 day weekends every weekend!
From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.
Do you want to be part of a company culture that empowers employees to think big, lead with a growth mindset, and make the impossible a reality? We provide the resources and give you the flexibility to enable inspiration and focus -if you have the passion and courage to dream big, work hard, and have fun doing what you love then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.
Palmdale, CA
This position is in Palmdale, CADiscover Palmdale.
Basic Qualifications
Must have working experience in Shop Floor Control or Production Control
Experience using Microsoft Office SuiteMust have Intermediate Excel skillsetExperience with SAP or other ERP systems
Desired Skills
Experience within a Union Environment
Constraint Management experience
Lean Six Sigma, black belt or green belt
Excellent Communication Skills (Technical, Written, and Verbal)
Interview Questions
Acclimation to new team: Describe the last time you joined a new organization. How did you get acclimated? What were the most valuable pieces of information you learned or activities you undertook?
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Tell me about something you did that helped others improve the accuracy of their own work.
Active Learning: When you needed specialized help on a topic, how did you know who to approach?
Analytical Ability: Give an example of how you applied knowledge from a previous project (or class in the case of a recent graduate) to a later, perhaps more complex project. Did you recognize you were doing so at the time?
Business Acumen: Give me an example of a time when your understanding of your organization enabled you to get something you needed that, had you lacked understanding, you probably would not have gotten.
Information Management: Emails and other electronic messages are now the main form of communication. How do you organize the information you receive from others in emails? How do you use that information later?
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $67400.00 - $125200.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
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Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
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For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 550 open Production Planner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$67–125K/yr
- California median$84–125K/yr71 salary ranges
- US median$74–110K/yr283 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $96K, is 4% below the California median midpoint ($100K) — in the middle half of Production Planner salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 96 open Production Planner jobs in California and 550 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril15 open
- Aston Carter8 open
- Lockheed Martin (this employer)5 open
- Experience
- Production Planner postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (406 postings).
- Education
- 121 of the 550 open Production Planner jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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