Manufacturing Planning Engineer

At Janicki Industries, we turn complex ideas into real-world solutions through advanced engineering and manufacturing. Our teams design and build innovative structures, tooling, and systems that support industries including aerospace, space, defense, marine, and architecture . Across every role, from engineers and technicians to operations and support teams, our people help solve challenging problems, push the limits of design and manufacturing, and create solutions that make a lasting impact. This position is located on-site in Hamilton, Washington. Department Summary The Manufacturing Planning Engineer is responsible for how manufacturing work is estimated, planned, and controlled across the organization. This includes building estimating tools and go-bys for Sales, maintaining standards, process controls, and exception reports, and managing production constraints. Working across Sales, Operations, Engineering, Planning, and Supply Chain, this position looks at the whole manufacturing system to make sure it can meet demand and customer commitments. The Manufacturing Planning Engineer works closely with Operations, Program Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Master Planning, Supply Chain, and other support organizations to understand current and future demand and determine whether the manufacturing system has the capability and capacity to meet it. The successful candidate will have strong intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand how things work. They will enjoy learning new processes, reading and discussing new ideas, following problems beyond the obvious answer, and pulling on threads until they understand the underlying system. They should be comfortable challenging the way work has historically been performed while working collaboratively with the people who understand the process best. Roles & Responsibilities: Planning Develops and maintains labor and machine standards (routings, standard times, production rates) based on demonstrated performance rather than assumptions Works with Operations to understand actual process capability, production rates, labor requirements, equipment limitations, material requirements, and sources of variability Enforce process controls that keep planning data, schedules, and shop floor execution aligned Maintain exception reports to ensure quality data in for effective data based production control Investigates exceptions and schedule performance beyond surface-level symptoms to identify underlying systemic causes Works closely with Operations while maintaining a broader view of production flow, capacity, and constraints across the manufacturing system Challenges existing assumptions, planning methods, and production strategies when data or observation suggests a better approach may exist Production Control Analyzes manufacturing demand against demonstrated capacity across cells, equipment, buildings, and manufacturing sites to identify current and emerging constraints before they impact customer commitments Ensures constraints are fully utilized and protected by evaluating WIP, inventory, buffers, variance and production sequencing Identifies and recommends ways to elevate constraints, including shifting work between equipment, cells, shifts, facilities, or sites, suppliers and using available capacity elsewhere in the organization Develops capacity models and scenario analyses showing the expected impact of staffing, overtime, alternate equipment, process improvements, outsourcing, capital investment, and other production decisions Uses production data to develop hypotheses about constraints and performance, recommends actions, defines expected outcomes, and evaluates actual results to determine whether the action worked or another approach is required Estimating Develops and maintains estimating calculators that convert part geometry, materials, and processes into labor hours, machine time, lead time, and cost Builds and maintains a library of go-bys (comparable past jobs wit…

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