Kratos Defense and Security Solutions

Assistant Operations Planning Manager

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions • $85K — $95K *
Colorado Springs, CO 80918In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5 years experience in a manufacturing environment
  • 5 years Warehouse Analyst and operations experience
  • 5 years Shipping and/or Receiving experience
  • 5 years actively working in a manufacturing operations environment
  • 5 years interaction with material planning and working knowledge of planning concepts
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • Complete understanding of Epicor ERP system
  • BA or BS required

Responsibilities

  • Supervise Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and lead initiatives in Operations Planning.
  • Oversee warehouse operations, ensuring smooth execution and reporting.
  • Lead shipping and receiving operations, supervising warehouse personnel.
  • Ensure timely material flow for projects by coordinating with stakeholders.
  • Track jobs and manage incoming materials for project's reporting needs.
  • Follow up on late or un-ordered parts, enhancing procurement effectiveness.
  • Collaborate with AIT and warehouse teams to schedule inventory pulls.

Benefits

  • Internal-only opportunity for career advancement.
  • Involvement in strategic decision-making and efficiency improvements.
  • Potential exposure to cross-functional coordination and leadership.
  • Engagement in a dynamic manufacturing environment focused on optimizing operations.
Full Job Description
This management-level role oversees critical warehouse functions, including Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Operations Planning. The ideal candidate will bring extensive manufacturing operations experience and a strong command of planning and scheduling concepts to ensure accurate, timely material flow across projects and departments. Acting as a key liaison between Operations Planning and AIT, this position drives efficiency, accuracy, and strategic inventory management while supervising warehouse personnel and supporting cross-functional coordination. This is an internal-only opportunity for a skilled operations professional ready to lead, optimize processes, and support the continued success of our production environment.
  • Supervise all Shipping/Receiving/Inventory Control operations & learn/coordinate with Operations Planning with a view to taking this on in time.
  • Oversee execution of warehouse operations and reports.
  • Supervise shipping and receiving and warehouse personnel.
  • Ensure a matched set of parts by the date expected for jobs and projects. Adjust when necessary and coordinate changes with affected personnel/stakeholders.
  • Attend meetings as needed and requested by senior management.
  • Track jobs and incoming material for projects and reports.
  • Pursue problematic parts on BOMs with buyers.
  • Follow up on late parts with buyers or parts not on order after a week.
  • Provide updates to projects on a periodic basis and as needed. Attend project material meetings as required.
  • Coordinate, schedule, and execute inventory pulls with AIT team and warehouse personnel and planning to ensure they get the job material when scheduled/expected.
  • Act as liaison between Operations Planning and Assembly, Integration, and Test (AIT). E.g. attend AIT scheduling meetings. Ensure all AIT concerns are addressed and elevated as needed.
  • Analyze inventory balance and suggest MOHs/MOQs or other stock buffer strategies.
  • Seek opportunities to reduce excess inventory.
  • Support AIT material/transaction requests (part requests and/or serial number movement requests).
  • Provide weekly job kit plans.
  • Seek opportunities to improve data collection methods pertaining to inventory/WIP (individual part yields, cycle times, etc...) and act on data findings as necessary (i.e. set MOHs for lower yielding parts).


  • 5 years experience in a manufacturing environment
  • 5 years Warehouse Analyst and operations experience
  • 5 years Shipping and/or Receiving experience
  • 5 years actively working in a manufacturing operations environment
  • 5 years interaction with material planning and working knowledge of planning concepts
  • 5 years working with complex scheduling and competing priority deadlines
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • Complete understanding of Epicor ERP system
  • BA or BS required

Preferred Skills/Experience
  • 7 years experience in above
  • Material expediting
  • Understanding of Purchasing concepts
  • Masters Degree preferred

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The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below. Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Competitive salary based on experience and education
Salary Range: $85,000-$95,000

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. provides mission critical products, solutions, and services in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Kratos Government Solutions, Unmanned Systems, and Public Safety & Security. The Kratos Government Solutions segment offers microwave electronic products, satellite communications, training systems, modular systems, and defense and rocket support services. The Unmanned Systems segment provides unmanned aerial, ground, and seaborne, as well as command, control, and communications systems. The Public Safety & Security segment designs, engineers, deploys, operates, integrates, maintains, and operates security and surveillance solutions for homeland security, public safety, critical infrastructure, government, and commercial customers. The company serves national security related agencies, the department of defense, intelligence agencies, and classified agencies, as well as international government agencies and domestic and international commercial customers; and critical infrastructure, power generation, power transport, nuclear energy, financial, IT, healthcare, education, transportation, and petro-chemical industries, as well as government and military customers. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Learn more about Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Size
3,300 employees
Market Cap
$1.1 billion
Industry
Aerospace & Defense
Net Income
$79.6 million
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+8.4%
Revenue
$747.6 million
NASDAQ
KTOS
* Ladders Estimates

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