Integrated Planning Lead (IPL)-2

RTX•Tucson, AZ

10d•Onsite

About The Position

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 planning (S&OP). S&OP enables program managers and value stream leaders to 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 a 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. U.S Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance within the first year of employment.

Requirements

Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 5 years’ experience
Minimum of 8 years of experience in engineering, operations, or analytics.
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
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