Manage production schedules for flight hardware at a growing satellite communications company in San Francisco.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 16 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 16 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Develop and maintain detailed resource-loaded schedules
- Work closely with production leadership to execute plans
- Communicate schedule status and changes to stakeholders
- Identify and report on schedule risks
- Create and maintain scheduling processes and tools
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or similar technical discipline
- 2+ years of professional experience as a program manager, manufacturing engineer, or scheduler
Nice to have
- Experience with Smartsheet or MS Project scheduling software
- Proficiency in SQL query writing
- Experienced in planning and scheduling using ERP/MRP software systems
- Understanding of the aerospace engineering lifecycle
- Understanding of spacecraft assembly, integration, and test methods
Practical constraints
- U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required
Requirements
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- No sponsorship (stated in posting)
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Production Scheduler at Astranis is responsible for managing and optimizing production schedules for various phases of satellite hardware development. This role requires proficiency in scheduling tools and strong analytical skills to navigate complex data sets and identify potential risks. Ideal candidates have a background in aerospace or manufacturing, along with experience in program management or scheduling. Astranis, a rapidly growing company in the satellite communications sector, emphasizes collaboration across teams to ensure timely delivery of its advanced technology.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 25, 2026. Last confirmed on Astranis's careers page September 25, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$126,887).
- Starts above 25% of 121 comparable mid other roles in United States that list SQL we track (median $100,000 across 39 companies). See SQL salary trends
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Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Astranis lists $100,000–$140,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 2 years of relevant experience for this Production Scheduler role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Grafana, MS Project, PowerBI, SQL, SmartSheet, Tableau.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Astranis targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Production Scheduler role at Astranis.
From the original posting
Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe – large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.
Production Scheduler
The Production Scheduler manages and owns production schedules for designated areas of the factory and designated phases of production. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining plans for building and testing flight hardware by accumulating inputs from across the company and ensuring the schedule remains up to date and efficient. These plans will push the limits of what is possible but are still achievable, gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, and working with company leadership and production resources to execute them.
The ideal candidate must be able to filter a complex schedule of thousands of lines into simple targets that people can understand, navigate under-constrained problems with large data sets and converge on a path forward, stay aware of the status of many things and spot problems before they occur, and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. If you are the ultimate organizer, can juggle 10 things at once with ease, walk into a room with many different opinions and out of that room with one clear shared goal, and have a passion for ruthless execution and improvement - this might be the role for you!
Role
- Develop and maintain detailed resource-loaded schedules for multiple factory workcenters that process flight hardware, R&D hardware, tooling, and test equipment.
- Work closely with the production leadership team to develop and execute realistic but aggressive plans, and with the engineering program management team to integrate these schedules into end-to-end programmatic schedules.
- Derive and communicate clear targets and priorities for every piece of hardware and process in the relevant production workcenters, and work with production managers to ensure appropriate allocation of resources, schedule accuracy and on-time delivery.
- Identify and report on schedule risks, their impacts, and workarounds.
- Perform quick “what if” schedule modeling and analyses on multiple possible outcomes to help make decisions on emergent risks.
- Create, maintain, and use scheduling processes and tools to identify, analyze, and act on potential constraints on a daily/weekly basis.
- Work with software and procurement teams to implement and maintain a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system, ensuring data accuracy.
- Constantly communicate schedule status and changes to key stakeholders across the business, in written reports, meetings/presentations, and in automated fashion using dashboards and other tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or similar technical discipline, or 2+ years of professional work in the aerospace industry.
- 2+ years of professional experience as a program manager, manufacturing engineer, or scheduler
Bonus
- Experience with Smartsheet or MS Project scheduling software.
- Proficiency in SQL query writing, and ability to create custom dashboards in Grafana/Tableau/PowerBI/etc.
- Experienced in planning and scheduling using ERP/MRP software systems.
- Understanding of the aerospace engineering lifecycle.
- Understanding of spacecraft assembly, integration, and test methods.
Base pay is just one component of Astranis’s total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.
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