Integrated Planning Lead

RTX•Tucson, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world. The Integrated Planning function within RTX is responsible for driving schedule alignment with financial, factory, program operations, and engineering stakeholders which results in an integrated plan, providing the basis for long term sales and operations execution (S&OE). S&OE gives program managers and value stream leaders the ability to come together and make strategic and tactical decisions about how to collectively run their businesses to optimize customer satisfaction and financial performance.  The Integrated Planning team drives execution efficiency by applying analytics and optimization to system data to support business processes. This execution position is focused on program readiness for major end-items tied to firm contracts.  This role is responsible for understanding production demand profiles and the corresponding internal and external constraints to ensure potential issues are well-understood, communicated, and addressed in a timely manner. The individual selected for this role will work to enable decision making and collaboration across a variety of functions and program areas through data analysis, simulation, and fact-based influence.  In addition to driving accountability for known issues, this role will identify areas of greatest risk and variability and analyze different scenarios to establish contingency plans as needed to increase our ability to deliver on schedule. The execution planner will be directly involved in scheduling and planning decisions for major deliverables and provide process support and oversight with focus on near-term and mid-term plans.  The individual in this role will need to leverage strong interpersonal and leadership skills to be successful in optimizing the schedule around factory efficiency, high customer satisfaction, and consistency in achieving financial targets.  This role will work closely with the cross-functional execution team. This role will also help with responsibilities across the Integrated Planning Organization. The candidate will provide strategic and organizational support to ensure the efficient execution of activities for Integrated Planning that drive high impact and high visibility.

Requirements

Typically requires a University Degree and a minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience.
Minimum of 8 years of experience in engineering, operations, or analytics.
Active and transferable U.S. government issued DoD Secret security clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance and are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
Experience planning, controlling and directing activities and resources
Experience with complex systems and processes, and filtering and distilling relevant information from complex datasets into simple messages

Nice To Haves

Experience in material planning and/or procurement role.
Experience in ITAR rules and regulations
Experience with SAP systems or other ERP systems
Experience with Government and Depot type processes
Experience reading and evaluating lists of parts required for production work and working with a production planning system.

Responsibilities

Interface and coordinate with Program Leadership Team and other Functional customers.
Interface with Factory Production Control Leads and Planners
Communicate schedule changes across multiple factories.
Program Master Scheduler (exception message management, coordinate, create and enter MSALT changes)
Run and analyze Kinaxis simulations for strategic execution.
Coordinate material for various test milestones.
Help develop strategic mitigation plans (MRSP) with the Program and Material Program Managers
Drive MRP Health data integrity.
Maintain Planned Independent Requirements and Dependent Demand
Coordinate PRISM set-up for transition to full rate production.
Manage Program Residual Compliance Support for DCMA and other scheduled audits
MOCAS/DD250 Coordination and Management
Coordination of a Program Line of Balance
Support customer-oriented meetings and briefing material.
Maintain inventory and support engineering efforts for program laboratories.
This role may have direct reports.
Utilizing analytical skills, critical thinking, and collaboration to plan, coordinate and direct activities and resources.
Contribute to the completion of organizational projects and goals.
Work within Kinaxis.
Use MS Office applications including, but not limited to Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Influence decisions cross functionally.
Contribute to the completion of organizational projects and goals.
Mediate discussions between stakeholders with varying incentives and arrive at consensus.