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Saronic Technologies is developing autonomous surface vessels for maritime defense. The Master Planner owns the overall flow of ship construction across the shipyard, mapping how vessels move through work stations and maintaining the integrated master schedule that ties every trade, program, and facility constraint together.
In this role, you will develop and maintain the ship plan showing how each vessel in a multi-ship program moves through the yard's work stations, defining work station sequencing and loading across concurrent ship builds while balancing throughput against physical capacity. You will identify where work for one hull competes with another for the same station, crane, or resource.
You will build and maintain the integrated master schedule (IMS), tying structural, piping, electrical, HVAC, machinery, and outfitting work into a single coherent timeline. Working closely with the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, you will define critical path activities and schedule windows for each ship and program, keeping the schedule current as progress, engineering changes, and resourcing decisions move the plan.
Facilities coordination is critical: you will work closely with the Facilities team to understand each work station's physical capabilities and restrictions, including size, weight, crane capacity, access, and utilities. You will ensure the ship plan never assumes more than a station can deliver and resolve facility or capacity constraints early through resequencing or schedule adjustment.
You will maintain visibility into schedule health across the program, flagging slippage and resource conflicts to leadership. You will support what-if scenario planning for schedule compression, added ships, or facility changes, and establish planning standards, milestone definitions, and reporting cadence across the organization.
Success means schedule risk is identified early enough to be resolved through resequencing rather than crisis management, multiple concurrent ship programs are sequenced without resource or station conflicts, facility constraints are built into the plan rather than discovered as floor conflicts, and leadership can make informed schedule tradeoffs using current, reliable data.
REQUIREMENTS
Required:
- Hands-on experience in shipyard production planning, scheduling, or master planning, ideally across multiple ship programs
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining an integrated master schedule using CPM-based scheduling tools (Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar)
- Understanding of the full ship construction flow: fabrication, subassembly, unit, block, erection, outfitting, launch, delivery
- Strong analytical skills in critical path analysis, schedule risk assessment, and capacity/throughput planning
- Strong communication skills to present schedule risk and tradeoffs clearly to a range of stakeholders
Preferred:
- Experience across multi-ship or multi-program shipbuilding construction
- Experience with PLM/ERP systems and data integration between scheduling tools and production systems
- Familiarity with classification society and program milestones (keel lay, launch, trials, delivery)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, industrial engineering, or a related field
- Experience building schedule health reporting such as dashboards, S-curves, and milestone trackers
