Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead efforts and strategies to support supply chain and Policy Deployment.
  • Project Management
  • Substantiation Planning
  • Coordination / Communications with leadership team
• Ensure that capacity planning and readiness initiatives align with the broader organizational strategy and business goals
• Provides the Site Leaders strategies that support and align with the business growth objectives.
  • Capacity Footprint people and skill requirements
  • Capital investments and Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRL)
• Identify growth-related budgetary needs.
• Work in coordination with shops on program / part family transitions to sister plants and 3rd party vendors.
  • Work closely with Lean Leaders to design material and process flow on growth programs.
• Establish a reporting status rhythm on strategic and growth programs to the leadership team.
• Provide strategy for overall production line start-up and they transfer between sites and vendors.
• Support customer visits/call and travel to sites and suppliers as needed relative to manufacturing strategy and growth programs.
• Project Management
• Utilizing FLIGHT DECK lean manufacturing principles to drive continuous improvement in production processes.
• Provide leadership and execute on cost competitiveness initiatives.
• Conduct Make/Buy analysis utilizing created and/or provided tools

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or high school diploma/GED and 7 years of experience in a process improvement project management technical management and/or leadership position.)
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a process improvement project management technical management and/or leadership position.

Desired Characteristics

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or Business
• Project Management Principles (PMP) Certification
• Additional leadership experience in the areas of Business Operations Manufacturing Engineering or Quality is preferred.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification or equivalent Quality Certification.
• Appropriate skills for senior leadership (VP Sr. Director Director) presentations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of product and processes related to ignition systems sensors harnesses power generation starters space ignitions heat exchangers and/or defense industry regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for meeting customer/business needs.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to influence results at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Ability to document plan market and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident U.S. Citizen have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e. a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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