Master Planner

The job

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Job description

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.

Job Overview

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.

Responsibilities

Ship Plan & Flow Management

• Develop and maintain the ship plan showing how each vessel in a multi-ship program moves through the yard's work stations.

• Define work station sequencing and loading across concurrent ship builds, balancing throughput against physical capacity.

• Identify where work for one hull competes with another for the same station, crane, or resource.

  Integrated Master Schedule

• Build and maintain the integrated master schedule (IMS), tying structural, piping, electrical, HVAC, machinery, and outfitting work into a single coherent timeline.

• Work with the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering to define critical path activities and schedule windows for each ship and program.

• Keep the schedule current as progress, engineering changes, and resourcing decisions move the plan.

  Facilities Coordination

• Work closely with Facilities to understand each work station's physical capabilities and restrictions, including size, weight, crane capacity, access, and utilities.

• Ensure the ship plan never assumes more than a station can deliver.

• Resolve facility or capacity constraints early through resequencing or schedule adjustment.

  Schedule Risk & Reporting

• Maintain visibility into schedule health across the program, flagging slippage and resource conflicts to leadership.

• Support what-if scenario planning for schedule compression, added ships, or facility changes.

• Establish planning standards, milestone definitions, and reporting cadence across the organization.

  What Success Looks Like

• Schedule risk is identified early enough to be resolved through resequencing rather than crisis management.

• Multiple concurrent ship programs are sequenced without resource or station conflicts.

• Facility constraints are built into the plan rather than discovered as floor conflicts.

• Leadership can make informed schedule tradeoffs using current, reliable data.

Qualifications

Required

• 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.

Preferred

• Experience across multi-ship or multi-program shipbuilding construction.

• Experience with PLM/ERP systems and data integration between scheduling tools and production systems.

• Familiarity with classification society and program milestones (keel lay, launch, trials, delivery).

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, industrial engineering, or a related field.

• Experience building schedule health reporting such as dashboards, S-curves, and milestone trackers.

Physical Demands

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

• Occasional standing and walking within the office

• Manual dexterity to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment

• Visual acuity to read screens, documents, and reports

• Occasional reaching, bending, or stooping to access file drawers, cabinets, or office supplies

• Lifting and carrying items up to 20 pounds occasionally (e.g., office supplies, packages)

Benefits

Medical Insurance: Comprehensive health insurance plans covering a range of services

Saronic pays 100% of the premium for employees and 80% for dependents

Dental and Vision Insurance: Coverage for routine dental check-ups, orthodontics, and vision care

Saronic pays 100% of the premium under the basic plan for employees and 80% for dependents

Time Off: Generous PTO and Holidays

Parental Leave: Paid maternity and paternity leave to support new parents

Competitive Salary: Industry-standard salaries with opportunities for performance-based bonuses

Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match

Stock Options: Equity options to give employees a stake in the company’s success

Life and Disability Insurance: Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage

Pet Insurance: Discounted pet insurance options including 24/7 Telehealth helpline

Additional Perks: Free lunch benefit and unlimited free drinks and snacks in the office

Saronic CCPA Notice for Candidates and California Employees

If this role is based in the United States, it requires access to export-controlled information or items that require “U.S. Person” status. As defined by U.S. law, individuals who are any one of the following are considered to be a “U.S. Person”: (1) U.S. citizens, (2) legal permanent residents (a.k.a. green card holders), and (3) certain protected classes of asylees and refugees, as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Saronic does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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The city

The job is in Brownsville, TX. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Brownsville compares. Among the 120 largest places in Texas, Brownsville is #18 by population, #3 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #114 for household income (#1 = highest), #14 for long commutes (#1 = fewest). Its county, Cameron County, is #231 of 254 counties for average pay ($44,590).

The place in numbers

Brownsville has 189,177 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.6% of the population of Texas. It covers 133 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 1,418 people per square mile. The median age is 31.2, 12% younger than the state median (31.2 against 35.6).

Housing

The median gross rent is $923 a month (rent plus utilities), 34% below the state median ($923 against $1,403). Over a year that is 21.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $139,900, which is 2.7 times the median household income ($52,130); a ratio under 4 usually means ownership is within reach for many households. 61.7% of households own their home, about the same as the state average (61.7% against 62.6%).

Work and pay

The Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metropolitan area has 157,450 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $36,490 a year, 28% below the national median ($36,490 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are healthcare support (26,080 jobs, median $24,960); office and administrative support (20,010 jobs, median $37,510); food preparation and serving related (16,940 jobs, median $24,110). The area is most specialised in healthcare support (3.3 times) and educational instruction and library (1.3 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($81,410) and healthcare practitioners and technical ($74,760). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Cameron County was 5.9%. 59.4% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Cameron County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 74.9% drive alone, 0.7% use public transit, 1.3% walk, 8.4% work from home. 7.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 58% below the state average (7.2% against 16.9%).

People and education

24.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 27% below the state share (24.5% against 33.8%). 27.5% of residents were born outside the United States, 57% above the state share (27.5% against 17.6%). The poverty rate is 23.7%, 72% above the state rate (23.7% against 13.8%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 86°F (29.9°C), and the coolest is Jan at 62°F (16.9°C). About 646 mm (25 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Sep is the wettest month (144 mm) and Feb the driest (22 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

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Distances

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What is the Master Planner job at Saronic?

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Brownsville, TX.

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Median rent in Brownsville is $923 a month and median household income $52,130 (ACS 2020–2024).

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Are there similar jobs?

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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