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Salary: USD 94,610 - 150,210 / annual
Divergent is building the next generation of industrial manufacturing, serving automotive OEMs and U.S. aerospace and defense companies. The Program Planner role is central to scaling Divergent's integrated engineering and manufacturing platform across multiple material systems and production sites.
You will work closely with Program Managers, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to build and maintain program schedules from proposal through part release and delivery. Key responsibilities include:
• Partnering with the PMO and engineering during proposal phase to develop detailed schedules with design and release milestones, continuously updating as design progresses and communicating changes to stakeholders.
• Monitoring real-time progress against schedule, flagging variances, and working with engineering leads to implement corrective actions that keep part release on-time.
• Building and maintaining multi-material program plans that account for differing lead times, qualification paths, and process maturity of each material system, ensuring the governing constraint drives the schedule.
• Developing planning processes for multi-factory programs, defining scope allocation between sites, schedule synchronization, and capacity/tooling/material balancing across the network.
• Planning inter-factory logistics including material and sub-assembly movement, transit and customs lead times, packaging, containerization, and buffer/inventory placement between sites.
• Defining and documenting hand-off points and data requirements between sites and material streams so parts released at one factory can be planned and built at another without rework.
• Maintaining and collaborating with data teams to develop tools for professional status reporting and program health visibility across materials, sites, and logistics lanes.
• Participating in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings to ensure demand, supply, and production plans are synchronized across sales, engineering, manufacturing, and sites.
• Identifying gaps in scheduling or supply-chain processes, proposing enhancements, and codifying lessons-learned into repeatable, documented planning standards that scale.
The role is based on-site in Long Beach or Torrance, working across engineering, production, and warehouse areas with periodic travel to other Divergent sites and supplier/logistics partner locations. The environment is fast-paced, cross-functional, and involves regular exposure to an active manufacturing floor where personal protective equipment is required.
REQUIREMENTS:
Basic Qualifications:
• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls
• Proven, progressing track record in planning, operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, or consulting
• Experience building and maintaining integrated program schedules with defined milestones, dependencies, and critical path
• Exposure to planning or coordinating work across more than one production site, process, or material system, including material movement between them
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Solid interpersonal skills; self-motivated with ability to manage personal workload and execution to tight schedules
Preferred Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience in a start-up, consulting, or similar high-growth, fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Direct experience planning multi-site or multi-factory manufacturing programs, including inter-site logistics, transit and customs lead times, and buffer strategy
• Experience across more than one manufacturing process family (additive, casting, machining, composites, extrusion, joining) and understanding of how their lead times and qualification paths differ
• Experience writing, rolling out, and driving adoption of new planning or supply-chain processes and work instructions
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems and project scheduling tools (Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Primavera)
• Successful collaboration in team environments to ensure cross-functional requirements are met
• Advanced Excel skills; comfort with data and visualization tools (SQL, Power BI, Tableau) a plus
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills
