Required Skills & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain or related field.
2-5 years of experience in supply chain planning.
Experience with SAP, Microsoft Navision, or comparable ERP/MRP applications with ability to teach others
Experience with complex configuration management in a regulated environment
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with Supply chain planning, industrialization and purchasing teams to provide kit manufacturing assembly health, identifying risks and opportunities as well as coordination of new purchases to ensure PO coverage is available for demand.
Reviewing MRP output and incorporating changes to ensure supply matches demand outlook.
Lead cross functional discussions on material health based on engineering changes and rework processes, including planning new revision cut ins with supply chain and operational teams.
Coordinate with procurement & purchasing teams to ensure that timing of receipts meets the demand schedule and that receipts are adjusted where needed.
Coordinating with MPS teams to ensure demand and capacity planning aligns with material availability.
Providing support to the execution teams, including MPS, at the Itasca facility.
Provide continual improvement of the planning, reporting, and communication processes including publishing weekly for production.
Continually reviews processes and systems to identify opportunities to minimize wasteful spending and optimize our resources.
Work with accounting team to ensure completeness of the monthly financial statements and variance explanations.
Job Description
As a Manufacturing Planning Analyst, you will collaborate with Regional VP’s, Product VP’s and Engineering teams to make sure equipment and resources are available to meet installation and maintenance needs for all. Our goal is to make sure that SES Inflight is installed on as many aircraft as possible and our team is the bridge to translating sales commitments and product upgrades into solid purchasing and delivery plans through the S&OP process. This activity drives our success and directly impacts revenue generation and cost control. Without a highly functioning demand plan, we will fail to service our customers and meet our financial goals.
SES Inflight is growing rapidly and it is a critical time for our Supply Chain teams to continue to develop world class processes with world class talent. Each role comes with the opportunity to have a direct impact on how this work is completed. The right candidate will be someone that loves to take ownership and accountability for their goals, works independently, and is not afraid to push through to solve tough problems. The people making great things happen today are passionate about SESs success and we can’t wait to add more committed team members.