Inventory Planner III

Production Control Floor Walker

We are seeking a Production Control Floor Walker to support our fast-paced satellite manufacturing line. The successful candidate will be the first line of support on the production floor, ensuring materials are available, processes flow smoothly, and any blockers are quickly resolved. This role is essential to maintaining on-time production, material availability, and close coordination between production, logistics, and inventory management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the go-to production control resource on the manufacturing floor.
• Monitor material shortages, resolve WIP holds, and escalate issues as needed.
• Coordinate with planning, purchasing, inventory, and quality teams to ensure production continuity.
• Support production schedule execution by tracking progress and addressing any floor-level disruptions.
• Manage material flow and staging to production lines in coordination with warehouse/logistics.
• Ensure transactional accuracy of material movements in ERP/MRP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.).
• Participate in daily tier meetings, reporting KPIs, blockers, and improvement actions.
• Maintain accurate and timely communication between cross-functional teams.
• Champion 5S, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives.

They've mixed in Controllers (they're floor walkers) but coded as inventory planners. Help work through plans and execute, helping leaders move things along. They have material blocks, working with inventory management to get things unblocked, etc. A lot of tactical work. These individuals will be on their feet all day wants very data driven folks. If he sees strengths and ability to leverage computers, manipulate and deep dive data he may move them to do something different but would be starting off on their feet though.

Skills: warehouse, production, fulfillment center, manufacturing, SAP, ERP, MES, MRP

Top Skills Details: warehouse, production, fulfillment center, manufacturing, SAP, ERP, MES, MRP

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• Top 3 skills: 1. Someone pursuing a degree would be ideal continuing education whether it's towards bachelor/masters/etc 2. Hodgepodge of exp some warehouse, fulfillment centers, manufacturing environments 3. MES exp 4. SAP or other ERPs
• He wants someone curious, who will take initiative, can deep dive and are HUNGRY! Wants HUNGRY people good with greener and SELF DIRECTED GO GETTERS Ability to deep dive Doesn't like to see resumes where they're jumpy
• Years of exp: 1+ but flexible
• 2+ years of experience in a production control, manufacturing, or supply chain environment.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems.
• Experience working on or directly supporting a high-mix, low-volume production floor.
• Ability to navigate between material handlers, planners, engineers, and production techs.
• High attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to stand/walk on the production floor for extended periods.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experience Level: Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location: This is a Contract position based out of Redmond, WA.

Pay and Benefits: The pay range for this position is $26.00 - $27.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision; Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital; 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available; Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents); Short and long-term disability; Health Spending Account (HSA); Transportation benefits; Employee Assistance Program; Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave).

Workplace Type: This is a fully onsite position in Redmond, WA.

Application Deadline: This position is anticipated to close on Sep 18, 2026.