Sr Manager., Materials planning and SIOP (On-site)

at  Collins Aerospace

QUALIFICATIONS YOU MUST HAVE:

• Typically requires University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.
• Experience with SAP or other ERP Systems required
• Experience with Materials planning and inventory management
• Experience with continuous improvements, Lean, Six Sigma or ACE
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access the financial management system due to government contractual requirements.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior experience working with and analyzing large data sets
• Experience with Tableau or any other data visualization tool (dashboards, graphs)
• Prior experience creating reports and reporting to senior leadership
• Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated customer focus/business partnership
  Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions
  for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

ADVANCED STRUCTURES

Our Advanced Structures team leverages advanced materials and additive manufacturing to develop complex interior and exterior solutions. These solutions ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, help aircraft take off and land, stay trim in the air, move forward, carry cargo and conduct rescues. We delight our customers with superior products and best-in-class service. Our global team is committed to continuous improvement – we work hard to make our solutions lighter-weight, stronger and more technically advanced, so that plane travel can be safer, more affordable, and more sustainable in the years to come. We are looking for the best and brightest to fly and land with us!

MINIMUM PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS

• Be on a career break of one or more year at time of application
• Have prior experience in functional area of interest
• Have interest in returning in either a full-time or part-time position
  Diversity drives innovation: inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

POSITION ROLE TYPE:

Onsite
Joining Collins Aerospace isn’t just about finding a job; it’s about embarking on a journey to redefine the future of aerospace technology. The SIOP Manager will have enterprise-wide responsibility for helping create, execute, sustain, and continually improve demand planning and SIOP strategies. Work with a cross functional team of leaders and planning process owners on our journey to world class performance through the application of demand planning/SIOP principles, tools, and methodologies.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Manage Planning functions and personnel, monitor track and record KPI’S. Project Milestone tracking to ensure support departments are on time with scheduled releases, hold weekly meetings to review project status with functional managers.
• Responsible for working with programs, operations, contracts, and finance to facilitate the overall management strategy and approach to enhancing processes between functions and managing data integrity.
• Responsibilities include incoming supply and demand planning.
• Develop raw, buy, and make material stocking plan for WIP and work order inventory to meet customer demand.
• Responsible for effective planning and scheduling to meet internal customer demand.
• Lead and manage the production order-scheduling process
• Work collaboratively with functional Managers to review demand planning.
• Manage the Master Schedule and establish commit dates.
• Verify all required inventory is available for scheduled production.
• Expedite shortages as necessary.
• Oversight of needed parts due to Production Change Notices, Engineering Changes and effect of deliveries against schedule.
• Monitor and adjust Master Data and build lead times; and for inventory position (safety stock levels and re-order points) Additionally:
• Perform periodic reviews of lead times for suppliers.
• Work with the Supply Chain team to ensure timely shipments of all domestic and international shipments.
• Oversee internal transfers (Phoenix and York)
• Facilitate the capacity management process
• Host operational excellence meetings between programs, supply chain, quality and operations, with the intent of improving processes and creating seamless alignment between programs, supply chain, quality, and operations, utilizing lean and other operational excellence techniques.
• Review daily shortages and determine cause and corrective actions for errors as needed.
• Guide and direct Production controllers in establishing and administering planning procedures and practices.
• Lead inventory cost savings initiatives.
• Oversee and control all aspects of inventory availability from raw material to finished goods.
• Review and update departmental procedures to ensure efficiency.
• Responsible for ERP data integrity.