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Master Planner

Saronic · Brownsville, TX · On-site

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About Saronic

Providing the most advanced and capable autonomous vessels in the maritime domain. Backed by Bessemer, General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

The Master Planner owns the overall flow of ship construction across the shipyard, mapping how vessels move through work stations and maintaining the integrated master schedule that ties every trade, program, and facility constraint together. This role defines critical path activities and schedule windows for multi-ship vessel programs, working closely with manufacturing engineering leadership and the facilities team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience in shipyard production planning, scheduling, or master planning, ideally across multiple ship programs
  • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining an integrated master schedule using CPM-based scheduling tools (Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar)
  • Understanding of the full ship construction flow: fabrication, subassembly, unit, block, erection, outfitting, launch, delivery
  • Strong analytical skills in critical path analysis, schedule risk assessment, and capacity/throughput planning
  • Strong communication skills to present schedule risk and tradeoffs clearly to a range of stakeholders
More about this role

Saronic Technologies is a leader in revolutionizing autonomy at sea, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art solutions that enhance maritime operations through autonomous and intelligent platforms.

The Master Planner owns the overall flow of ship construction across the shipyard, mapping how vessels move through work stations and maintaining the integrated master schedule that ties every trade, program, and facility constraint together. This role defines critical path activities and schedule windows for multi-ship vessel programs, working closely with manufacturing engineering leadership and the facilities team.

Multi-ship shipbuilding programs require a master schedule that reflects real station capacity, resource constraints, and the sequencing dependencies across every trade. The Master Planner ensures the schedule is both ambitious and achievable, and remains a trusted, living document as programs evolve.

This role works closely with the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering to define critical path activities and schedule windows, and with the Facilities team to understand the real capabilities and restrictions of every work station in the yard.

Develop and maintain the ship...

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