Technical Project Planner

Redwire Corporation is a global Space and Defense technology Company building the infrastructure of the future and delivering multi-domain solutions. Redwire Defense Tech specializes in the design, manufacturing, and integration of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and advanced electro-optical surveillance systems. Our technologies are trusted and deployed across Defense, Security, Civil, and industrial sectors worldwide.

• Translate product roadmaps, strategic initiatives, and development requests into detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Create and maintain integrated schedules across Hardware, Software, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Design, Test & Validation, and Production Engineering activities.
• Break down high-level roadmaps into resource-loaded execution plans with sufficient granularity to support forecasting and decision-making.
• Continuously update schedules based on actual progress, changing priorities, scope changes, and emerging risks.
• Identify critical paths, dependencies, schedule conflicts, and milestone slippages.
• Ensure project plans realistically reflect available engineering resources and organizational priorities.
• Maintain a resource-loaded view of all engineering projects, product initiatives, and strategic activities.
• Develop and maintain capacity models for engineering teams and key competencies.
• Monitor engineering utilization and identify overloaded teams, underutilized resources, and emerging capability gaps.
• Quantify the impact of new projects, scope changes, urgent customer requests, and shifting priorities on existing commitments.
• Forecast project completion dates based on resource availability, engineering estimates, historical performance data, and known constraints.
• Develop hiring forecasts and support workforce planning activities based on projected project demand.
• Create alternative scheduling and staffing scenarios to support management decision-making.
• Highlight situations where planned commitments exceed available capacity and provide recommendations for mitigation.
• Maintain a consolidated view of all engineering activities and project commitments.
• Provide visibility into competing priorities, resource conflicts, shared dependencies, and portfolio risks.
• Create dashboards and reporting that enable stakeholders to understand engineering workload and delivery confidence.
• Support roadmap reviews and prioritization discussions with objective, data-driven analysis.
• Ensure long-term planning is visible, actionable, and understandable across all stakeholder groups.
• Drive transparency around trade-offs between scope, schedule, staffing, and delivery commitments.
• Track planned versus actual progress across projects and engineering teams.
• Review effort estimates, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery forecasts with technical teams.
• Identify schedule risks, bottlenecks, single points of failure, and resource constraints.
• Assess the impact of project delays, scope changes, and priority shifts.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and recommend improvements to planning processes.
• Utilize historical project data and lessons learned to improve estimation quality and delivery predictability.
• Maintain planning data, schedules, dashboards, and forecasting tools.
• Provide regular reporting on project progress, engineering capacity, resource utilization, and delivery forecasts.
• Support management with data-driven recommendations regarding prioritization, staffing, and resource allocation.
• Establish and continuously improve planning methodologies, reporting standards, and forecasting practices.
• Improve consistency, accuracy, and transparency of planning processes across engineering teams.
• Promote a culture of evidence-based planning and realistic scheduling.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or analytical discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in project planning, engineering planning, resource planning, portfolio planning, operations planning, or a similar analytical role.
• Experience developing and maintaining project schedules, delivery forecasts, milestones, dependencies, and execution plans.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to translate complex activities into measurable plans and forecasts.
• Demonstrated ability to work with engineering teams and understand multidisciplinary product development involving Hardware, Embedded Controls, Software, Systems Engineering, Test & Validation, and Manufacturing.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar planning and scheduling tools.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and data quality.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, identify resource constraints, and communicate planning risks in a constructive and objective manner.

• Professional Learning and Development opportunities.
• Accident insurance from first day.
• Health insurance after probation period.
• Children acident insurance after probation period.
• Annual bonus program based on performance.
• Financial support in special life situations.
• Free parking.