Manager, Planning

The future of aerospace and defense starts here.

Ursa Major was founded to revolutionize how America and its allies access and apply high-performance propulsion, from hypersonics to solid rocket motors, satellite maneuvering and launch. We design and deliver propulsion and defense systems that solve the most urgent and critical national security demands.

At our Berthoud, Colorado campus, we design and build advanced liquid rocket engines using modern manufacturing methods, vertically integrated teams, and a culture that values ownership, urgency, and high‑quality hardware. If you thrive in a fast‑paced, hands‑on environment where your work directly impacts real hardware and real missions, you’ll fit right in.

We are looking for a Planning Manager to build and lead our component‑level demand, supply, and capacity planning function. This people‑leader role owns consensus demand and its accuracy metrics, rough‑cut capacity planning (RCCP) with Operations, and production of a constrained, feasible supply plan by segment ahead of every Executive SIOP.

You’ll manage a growing team of planners and be responsible for demand planning accuracy, supply plan alignment and adherence, and capacity visibility.

Demand Planning & Forecast Accuracy

• Lead the team to publish a demand plan by segment every SIOP cycle, aligned to the company calendar.

• Own consensus demand and the demand accuracy metric at the segment level.

• Baseline forecast accuracy and bias, then set and drive improvement targets; monitor MAPE, bias, and related metrics.

Rough‑Cut Capacity Planning & Feasible Supply Plans

• Model capacity, constraints, and material availability to determine what the system can actually produce via the RCCP.

• Produce constrained, feasible supply plans that are signed off before each Executive SIOP and aligned with real capacity, lead times, and material constraints.

• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing to resolve capacity bottlenecks and trade‑offs (e.g., resequencing, overtime, outsourcing).

Plan Adherence & Execution Discipline

• Define and track plan adherence metrics (e.g., schedule adherence to supply plan) for each segment; baseline and set improvement targets.

• Work with Operations and Programs to address root causes of non‑adherence and drive behavior change.

• Validate planning outputs against ERP/master data; trace MRP anomalies to root cause and work with data owners to correct them instead of relying on workarounds.

• Ensure plans respect validated order lead times; prevent commitments outside agreed lead‑time assumptions and correct when assumptions change.

• Build controls (validity checks, root‑cause analysis, corrective actions) into planning routines to reduce error and increase agility.

Team Leadership & Cross‑Functional Integration

• Manage and develop a team of planners

• Act as a player‑coach by carrying planning responsibility

• Integrate segment‑level outputs (demand, supply, capacity) into the broader SIOP cadence, partnering closely with Planning Operations and analytics teammates.

• Prepare executive‑facing materials (dashboards, slide decks, summaries) that make complex planning data understandable and actionable for leadership.

In‑Year Planning, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Lead the transition of available‑to‑promise and other key planning logic out of spreadsheets and into Odoo, eliminating