Manufacturing Planner Mgr - L5
Palmdale, CAFull-time$123–229K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Manufacturing Planner Manager oversees Make, Buy, and BOM planning activities tied to MRP transactions and manages manufacturing activities across functions. The role maintains production-system integrity, optimizes inventory and material flow, and coordinates production schedules and capacity with manufacturing, operations, procurement, and engineering stakeholders. It also coordinates subordinate employees’ recruitment, training, performance assessment, work assignments, and related personnel actions.
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What You Will Be Doing
Manages the Make, Buy and / or Bill of Material (BOM) planning activities associated with Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) transactions. Manages 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. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
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
Leadership skills
SAP
ERP Constraint Management
Production scheduling & master planning
Desired Skills
Bachelors Degree
Lean Manufacturing & six sigma principles
Risk mitigation & contingency planning
Adaptability to shifting priorities & production disruptions
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $123400.00 - $229200.00
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 437 open Production Planning jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$123–229K/yr
- California median$92–144K/yr38 salary ranges
- US median$80–118K/yr230 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $176K, is 43% above the California median midpoint ($124K) — in the top quarter of Production Planning salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Production Planning jobs in California and 437 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril3 open
- RTX Corporation3 open
- Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc.2 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 5 years (319 postings).
- Education
- 110 of the 437 open Production Planning jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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