Aerospace Master Scheduler & Capacity Planning Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Role: Aerospace Master Scheduler & Capacity Planning Manager

Location: Windsor, CT

Picture your Monday: a quick huddle with Operations and Engineering, a review of this week’s capacity model, and a call with a key aerospace customer to lock in on-time delivery commitments. By midweek, you’ve tuned the production schedule to hit critical milestones, balanced materials and labor, and translated fresh demand signals into actionable work orders. By Friday, you’re presenting performance metrics and readiness risks to leadership, while deploying a new planning tool your team piloted to mature our scheduling discipline.

That’s the cadence of this role at NE-XT—where you’ll orchestrate the flow of work, resources, and data so our teams can build the components that propel the future of aerospace.

What You’ll Lead

• Build and maintain integrated production plans and detailed shop-floor schedules aligned to customer demand and business objectives.
• Coordinate daily with Manufacturing, Procurement, Logistics, Operations, and Engineering to ensure smooth execution of the plan.
• Engage directly with customers to meet on-time delivery expectations.
• Track progress against plan; re-sequence and reallocate resources as needed to protect deadlines and throughput.
• Mine production data to surface trends, improve forecasts, and recommend process and system enhancements.
• Develop tools, templates, and standards that elevate the planning function across the factory.
• Champion safety and quality adherence in every step of the schedule.
• Report performance metrics and plan health to senior leadership.

Why NE-XT

Our culture is built on teamwork, accountability, professional growth, and continuous improvement. We invest in our people, our processes, and the technologies our customers count on.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $90,000–$130,000 annually, based on experience, qualifications, and demonstrated aerospace program-management capability.

NE-XT provides a competitive benefits package. Eligibility and plan specifics follow applicable company plans and policies.

What You Bring

• 5+ years in production planning and scheduling within manufacturing.
• Strong analytical ability—comfortable interpreting complex data to drive decisions.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
• Hands-on experience with production planning software and Microsoft Office.
• Proven leadership focused on team development and performance management.
• Knowledge of lean/CI principles is advantageous.
• Background in aerospace, automotive, or precision manufacturing.
• Epicor Manufacturing experience is a plus.

Preferred

• Training or experience with Lean or Six Sigma.
• Familiarity with ISO or comparable quality management systems.

Core Proficiencies

• ERP & MRP Systems
• Production Planning & Scheduling
• Inventory Management & Control

Join NE-XT in Windsor, CT, and help synchronize the people, processes, and plans that keep aerospace innovation moving.