Director of Production Control & Purchasing - (1140)

Job Description

Job Description

The Company

Aero Gear is a global supplier of aerospace gears and gearbox assemblies to top OEMs such as Pratt & Whitney, GE, AVIO, Collins, Rolls Royce and Sikorsky. The company was founded in 1982 and has grown over the years through key capital investments, technology and the professional development of its employees. Located in Windsor, CT, Aero Gear has a team-based culture with a focus on excellence and continuous improvement. The outlook for the company is strong as it continues to set higher goals for sustained success together.

The Position

Aero Gear is seeking a self-motivated, results-oriented, innovative leader with a strategic and financial mindset to fill this key management role. You will operate in an environment involving the procurement of raw materials, as well as key components, such as machined parts, bearings and hardware to support our assembly operations. You will be deeply involved with planning, production control and inventory management and the performance of factory operations.

This individual will develop and implement robust systems and processes to ensure the efficient flow of materials, maximize production output, minimize costs, and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction. The Director will lead and mentor a team of production planners, schedulers, buyers, and inventory control specialists, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Overall, you will be comfortable both in the world of planning, purchasing and supplier management, as well as operations. There will be many opportunities to apply your prior experience in continuous improvement utilizing Kaizen and lean manufacturing techniques to optimize our operations.

Essential Functions

• Develop and implement robust systems and processes to ensure the efficient flow of materials, maximize production output, minimize costs and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Lead and mentor a team of production planners, schedulers, buyers and inventory control specialists, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Project monthly and extended positional outlook.
• Determine and publicize weekly shipment goals.
• Oversee parts factory-wide, from material purchase order placement to part shipment.
• Review and manage material release schedule according to changes.
• Collaborate in business unit scheduling to coordinate customer and company objectives.
• Communicate and drive product priorities through support functions and shared resources.
• Maintain awareness of current critical parts to fruition.
• Work with area managers to identify and solve delivery and constraint issues.
• Elevate unsolvable delivery issues relative to customer commitments in a timely manner.
• Provide estimated part completions and part status information in production meetings.
• Collaborate with sales team on parts status updates and accurate completion dates.
• Ensure purchased and manufactured details support gearbox build schedule.
• Monitor schedule changes, working with sales to correct if necessary.
• Utilize Kaizen and lean manufacturing techniques to optimize operations for continuous improvement initiatives.

Competencies

Qualifications, Experience and Education

If you are a person with a background in purchasing and supply management, and / or prior experience in planning, production control, manufacturing operations or lean manufacturing roles – you could be a good fit for this position. We work in a team-based environment, so you would be leading a strong team and would need to provide clear goals and objectives, while maintaining strong communication and alignment of the team as a cohesive, cross-trained unit. You will work closely with senior company management, factory business units and customers, so you will need to display excellent organization, communication and presentation skills.

A Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field is required. APICs training and / or APICS CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) and / or APICS CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) certifications would be a plus.

Experience in aerospace manufacturing is required.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and talk or hear.

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Activities, duties or responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Authorization

US Person (Green Card Holder or United States Citizen) due to government contracts.

Compensation

Salary : From $120000 per year

Aero Gear is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Aero Gear will take the steps to ensure that people with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and / or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the EEO Coordinator at 860.688.0888.

EOE / Vets / Disabled

While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies . Aero Gear will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.