Spacecraft Production Planner
ReOrbit is looking for a Production Planner to join our growing team.
As our Production Planner, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining integrated production schedules across spacecraft manufacturing, assembly, integration and test activities. You will work closely with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality and programme teams to ensure that materials, resources, facilities and test campaigns are aligned to programme objectives.
This role is critical to ensuring the successful delivery of our satellite programmes and requires a systems-level mindset, strong coordination skills and the ability to adapt plans in a fast-paced, test-driven environment.
It's an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact, to reach our goal of pushing the boundaries of space data transfer.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain integrated production schedules across manufacturing, assembly, integration and test activities.
Manage resource-loaded plans, dependencies and critical paths to support programme delivery.
Coordinate spacecraft AIT flows, environmental test campaigns and readiness activities.
Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and programme teams to ensure alignment of priorities and schedules.
Track material availability, long-lead items and supply chain risks impacting programme execution.
Support capacity planning across manufacturing, integration, test facilities and engineering resources.
Coordinate facility utilisation, cleanroom schedules and specialised test resources.
Maintain schedule alignment with configuration management, engineering changes and non-conformance processes.
Support planning activities associated with rework, anomaly resolution and schedule recovery actions.
Generate programme planning metrics, reports and delivery status updates.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives across planning, scheduling and production processes.
Skills and Requirements
Minimum 5 years of experience in production planning, scheduling or operations planning within aerospace, space, defence, robotics, medical devices or other high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environments.
Proven experience building and maintaining resource-loaded schedules with critical path management.
Strong cross-functional coordination skills with the ability to drive action across multiple stakeholders.
Experience supporting manufacturing, integration, test or production-driven hardware development programmes.
Strong understanding of dependencies, risk management and schedule control.
Excellent organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate complex constraints and priorities clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable working in dynamic environments where plans evolve based on technical outcomes and programme needs.
Fluent written and spoken English.
Experience with spacecraft manufacturing, Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) activities.
Familiarity with environmental test campaigns including TVAC, vibration and EMC testing.
Knowledge of ECSS, ESA or aerospace configuration and quality management processes.
Experience planning EGSE, MGSE, hardware-in-the-loop or automated test environments.
Experience with ERP, PLM or manufacturing planning tools.
Lean manufacturing or continuous improvement experience.
What does ReOrbit do?
ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.
ReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiaries in Bristol, UK, Bariloche, Argentina and Bengaluru, India.
Working at ReOrbit
At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength.
We offer
Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.
Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .
Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor.
We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.
We support relocation and integration into Finnish society.
Join us in our journey of building software enabled satellites for secure communications
and, thus, creating the most compelling in space data flow company of the new space era.
For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.
- Department
- Engineering
- Locations
- Helsinki, Finland
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time