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Who We Are

Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.

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An Integrated Supply Chain Project Manager represents the Operations and Supply Chain groups within program core teams during the New Product Life Cycle Development process. They will be the Operations point of contact for program needs in our New of Record, helping to drive program team members to meet Operations milestones, and provide weekly status, progress and risk updates to the core team. They will also drive closure of Operations and Supply Chain tasks in support of the New Product Life Cycle Development process.


Job Description

·       Primary Operations representative to Program team to understand and coordinate Operations program requirements

·       Understand and coordinate Operations and supply chain program requirements

·       Determine and secure Operations resource needs to support program (personnel and assets) and ensure coordination for Operations capital and spend requirements

·       Communicate Operations schedule, quality and cost plan to Program Management for inclusion into the integrated program plan and provide timely and accurate status against plan.

·       Drive on-going Manufacturing product cost analysis in support of product cost targets.

·       Drive manufacturing readiness reviews to insure all Operations functions are ready for next NPI cycle.

·       Ensure DFx activities to achieve 100% resolution of manufacturing issues

·       Drive BOM and Drawing reviews to assure accuracy and readiness

·       Work with Engineering and Quality to identify and qualify robust suppliers – cost, lead time, quality, and reliability.

·       Work with Strategic Sourcing to develop and implement Manufacturing Service Agreements and Statements of Work with key suppliers

·       Work with Manufacturing to ensure all BOMs, AMLs, and associated data elements are in place to support planning, procurement, build, and ship processes.

·       Work with Manufacturing to drive material and build readiness for proto, pre-production, and production ramp builds in adherence to schedule requirements.

·       Work with Manufacturing to ensure all change activity (ECN, variances, deviations) is implemented accurately and effectively to support program schedule

·       Assess Operations process effectiveness and drive improvements

Who We Are

Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.

About This Role

We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:

Position Summary

The Product Factory (US/ATAP) Planning Manager will report directly to the Director Planning and will provide leadership and accountability for overall strategic and tactical activities of the end to end demand entry to delivery process relative to material planning for the internal commodity support factories.  The preferred candidate will be an individual with bias for action, strategic thinking, data analysis, problem solving, exceptional customer focus, communications, and a sound foundation in Material Planning and Production Control practices. 

• Lead all aspects of material planning primarily in an MRP environment for internal supply and own all associated attributes to effectively plan material and execute on-time within capacity constraints.
• Own material planning and demand relief processes from the Master Demand Schedule thru Demand Relief for end items associated with the Product factories (Aircraft, CLS, GCS, Launcher, CUSV, NGSW, etc).
• Work alongside factory managers and peer Material & Commodity Planning Manager teams to ensure alignment of external supply and available capacity to support the product end to achieve schedule to meet the MDS delivery dates.
• Own the execution of the Product factories deliverables to strive to meet a 100% on time delivery to the internal and external customers.
• Drive accountability within the Product planning team & lead internal customer communications representing their scope.
• Have a firm understand of bills of material, lead time management, pegging, utilization, efficiency, rated capacity, demonstrated capacity, bottleneck mitigations, critical resource identification and management, economic order quantities, dependent vs. independent demand, capacity requirements planning, ERP / MRP II systems, supplier relationships, and VMI.
• Understand basic lean six sigma principles and how to best use them to effectively drive continuous improvement efforts and focused culture on improvement. Key focuses will include driving down lead times, consistency and dependability of lead times, reduced requisition compression, reduced variation in execution and forecasts (especially financial), cost reduction, implementation of standard work, and backlog reduction.
• Effectively manage planning exception messages and institute standard work across planning to ensure thorough research is concluded before acting upon the message.
• Work closely with ISC Program Managers to understand VOC and establish needed value-stream improvement for business performance improvement.
• Create a work culture and environment for Planners to focus on doing whatever it takes to compliantly execute material requirements to achieve on-time product delivery. Strive to achieve a culture of ownership, accountability and pride and through networking and relationship development to embrace the IPT culture focused on one-team and collaboration.
• Understand the needed differences in processes and potentially material planning to support three unique businesses; ES, UAS, and ATAP to drive standardization for efficiency purposes while enabling tailoring to optimize business processes.
• Understand that natural processes during execution as well as errors may induce planning exception messages that when acted upon may be erroneous. As such, engage closely in data analysis and monitoring supply execution to ensure variation in the process does not create unnecessary supply and when noted aggressively work to emplace preventative methods to preclude future disruption.
• Develop and execute strategies to ensure procedural and execution compliance to the FAR and DFARS and subsequent Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) approval resulting from Materials Management and Accounting System (MMAS) reviews.
• Embrace safety and ethical standards as well as talent development to ensure a culture of employee care, nurturing, development and growth.

Who We Are

Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.

About This Role

We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:

Position Summary

The Materiel Planning Manager will report directly to the Director Planning and will provide leadership and accountability for overall strategic and tactical activities of the end to end demand entry to delivery process relative to material planning for external supply.  The preferred candidate will be an individual with bias for action, strategic thinking, data analysis, problem solving, exceptional customer focus, communications, and a sound foundation in Material Planning and Production Control practices. 

 Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of material planning primarily in an MRP environment for external supply and own all associated attributes to effectively plan material and execute on-time. Inclusive of working with program team to ensure alignment of GFP to support production plans
• Own material planning and demand relief processes from the Master Demand Schedule thru Demand Relief for procured end items.
• Work alongside of procurement and sub-contracts teams to ensure alignment of external supply to support the Commodity and Product Factories schedule.
• Work with Material Team to aggregate future demand plans for products, and key suppliers to enable partnership establishment with companies in the supply chain and provide forecasts.
• Have a firm understand of bills of material, lead time management, pegging, utilization, efficiency, rated capacity, demonstrated capacity, bottleneck mitigations, critical resource identification and management, economic order quantities, dependent vs. independent demand, capacity requirements planning, ERP / MRP II systems, supplier relationships, and VMI.
• Understand basic lean six sigma principles and how to best use them to effectively drive continuous improvement efforts and focused culture on improvement. Key focuses will include driving down lead times, consistency and dependability of lead times, reduced requisition compression, reduced variation in execution and forecasts (especially financial), cost reduction, implementation of standard work, and backlog reduction.
• Effectively manage planning exception messages and institute standard work across planning to ensure thorough research is concluded before acting upon the message.
• Work closely with ISC Program Managers to understand VOC and establish needed value-stream improvement for business performance improvement.
• Create a work culture and environment for Planners to focus on doing whatever it takes to compliantly execute material requirements to achieve on-time product delivery. Strive to achieve a culture of ownership, accountability and pride and through networking and relationship development to embrace the IPT culture focused on one-team and collaboration.
• Understand the needed differences in processes and potentially material planning to support three unique businesses; ES, UAS, and ATAP to drive standardization for efficiency purposes while enabling tailoring to optimize business processes.
• Understand that natural processes during execution as well as errors may induce planning exception messages that when acted upon may be erroneous. As such, engage closely in data analysis and monitoring supply execution to ensure variation in the process does not create unnecessary supply and when noted aggressively work to emplace preventative methods to preclude future disruption.
• Develop and execute strategies to ensure procedural and execution compliance to the FAR and DFARS and subsequent Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) approval resulting from Materials Management and Accounting System (MMAS) reviews.
• Embrace safety and ethical standards as well as talent development to ensure a culture of employee care, nurturing, development and growth.

JOB SUMMARY

Candidate must be able to safely and effectively perform the duties of an Instructor Operator without supervision, including flight and ground equipment setup as well as logs and records.  Manage classroom instruction as well as one-on-one instruction.  Communicate directly with the customer to provide effective feedback on student progress.  Ability to coordinate flight schedules, airspace, resources, frequency management, and other aspects of flight operations. Basic computer skills are required, computer networking experience is desired. Must communicate effectively with internal and external customers both verbally and in writing and possess strong leadership skills.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Prior Gray Eagle Qualification

• Graduate of Department Army UAS Instructor Course or Directorate of Evaluation and Standardization (DES) Equivalency

• 500 hours of prior Tier II/III/IV UAS experience while acting as the Pilot in Command

• Must possess and be able to maintain a Secret Level Clearance

• Maintain FAA Class II Flight Physical

• Maintain contractually mandated physical health standards required for OCONUS Operations

• Prior to interview, candidates will be asked to provide flight records

• Gray Eagle experience on software version 4.3.3 revision A (UGCS) or later

• Experience being deployed in support of military UAS operations

• FAA Private Pilot or Commercial Certificate with Instrument Rating

• 100 hours of Pilot in Command experience in manned aircraft

• Must be able to pass a standard deployment physical and maintain deployment readiness

• Ability to obtain/maintain a government security clearance