MRO Sales and Operations Planning Leader

Safran Group • Gainesville, TX

130d

About The Position

As a member of the Safran Seats business, you play a major role in teamwork that provides over one million seats to major airlines worldwide. Our commitment to superior quality, comfort and innovation ensure that you can take pride in doing meaningful work that supports the needs of passengers and crews alike. In the context of Safran Seat's MRO increase of activity, the MRO S&OP Leader's responsibility is to manage the forecast, demand, and planning specific to the repair station and interface with the global supply chain organization of Safran Seats for part procurement. This position is a key enabler of our shop's performance improvement. The MRO S&OP Leader will report directly to the Repair Station Manager. Under minimal supervision, the MRO S&OP Leader will carry improvement projects to implement and to lead the S&OP management process in the shop. The MRO S&OP Leader will also coordinate transversally the team of people in charge of planning, procurement, purchasing and logistics within the MRO department. He / she will also conduct operational work in any of the functions in the perimeter, depending on needs. As such, he / she will for instance be responsible for creating repair orders and will work closely with repair station manufacturing engineer and technicians to ensure all components are allocated and repair order operations are accurate to the repair needs for each order. He / she may be required to assist in purchase order management, Sales Order Management, and Work Order Management, or any other tasks directed by the Repair Station Manager.

Responsibilities

• Implement and then lead the supply chain process of the repair station, including demand plan, forecasts, planning, procurement, purchasing and logistics.
• Coordinate with other SST Repair Stations (in France and UK), sharing good practices and processes to increase global maturity and consistency.
• Develop and manage well-defined interfaces with other departments in SSUS.
• Recommend a suitable training plan to develop expertise in Supply Chain for the MRO team; coach team members on S&OP topics as appropriate.
• Conduct operational work in any of the supply chain functions depending on needs.
• Support and drive on-time supply chain and planning activities to align with Repair Station milestones.
• Communicate schedules and milestones for Repair to the various Materials functional groups.
• Ensure all parts are available to Repair Station when needed (internal and external).
• Manage the escalation process in case of risk identified on the supply chain performance.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees