Senior Planner

Job Description

Job Description

Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip.

Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of Aftermarket Planner 3, you'll play a pivotal part on our Production team. As the Aftermarket Planner 3 in the aftermarket aerospace sector, you will oversee all planning activities to ensure the successful delivery of repair, overhaul, or spare part services for aircraft components and systems. This role involves managing unique challenges inherent to the aftermarket, such as supporting legacy parts, addressing obsolescence issues, and ensuring quick turnaround times for customer-critical requirements like AOG (Aircraft on Ground) situations.

This position contributes to our vision by:

• Plans and schedules production work flow in an aftermarket aerospace environment according to each item's manufacturing sequence of operations, capacity constraints and lead times to fulfill customer requirements.
• Coordinate low-volume, high-mix production for parts, including legacy, out-of-production, and obsolete components, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and service agreements. Evaluates shortages and manages prompt solutions keeping appropriate stakeholders informed of any potential problem as required.
• Collaborate with engineering and supply chain teams to address unique challenges of aftermarket planning, such as limited material availability and fluctuating customer demands.
• Prepares production reports, productivity reports, cost analysis graphs and delivery charts that drive process and performance improvement.
• Analyzes supply and demand indicators; ensures efficient and quality execution of requirements and purchasing action messages, manages supplier delivery, quality, and cost performance and improvement.
• Ensure smooth material flow for repair or aftermarket operations, aligning with customer urgency requirements such as AOG demands and minimal downtime.
• Reviews and evaluates engineering drawings, calculates quantities and types of material, parts, or other items required, determines “make versus buy,” establishes safety stock/reorder points, and validates bills of material in the MRP system
• Reads and reviews engineering drawings and documentation and coordinate any changes.
• Read, interpret, create and validate complex, multi-level bill of material.
• Manages item master parameters to support best business practices and system-driven solutions.
• Maintains inventory levels to meet company goals.
• Supports testing and certification requirements for new programs.
• Preserves engineering revision control.
• Act as a key ERP system user, leveraging its functionality to optimize planning and material management for aftermarket operations. Collaborates with stakeholders on lead times, planning items and any related elements.
• Conduct root cause analyses and lead process improvement projects.

But what else?
Safran Cabin is #1 worldwide for business and regional aircraft interiors.

Here, you will build your skills and grow with a community of experts to enrich yourself every day.
Here, collaboration is embodied within the diversity of our teams all around the world.
Here, we're cutting our emissions, not your ambitions.

Together, let's shape the sustainable future of aeronautics. Learn more about Safran Cabin!

Why join us?

At Safran Cabin, we provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Your Benefits: Our suite of comprehensive benefits include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, and employee discounts & rewards for consumer products/services and more!

Candidate skills & requirements 
Qualifications:

• Experience: Minimum 5+ years' experience in production or material planning, with a strong focus on aftermarket aerospace operations such as MRO, spares, or service centers.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Degree in business, supply chain or logistics management preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of AS9100/ISO9001 standards and MRP systems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in supply chain, purchasing, planning, or sourcing, with a demonstrated understanding of aftermarket needs, including managing legacy parts and addressing obsolescence.
• Ability to read and analyze engineering prints and drawings
• APICS certification (CSCM/CPIM) or equivalent certification in supply chain management, with experience applying these principles to aftermarket challenges.

Position Criteria:

• Dedication and commitment to ensure all work is completed without exception.
• Willingness to learn and develop new competencies
• Strong written and verbal business communications abilities
• Self-starter with ability to drive improvement, meet timeliness and objectives
• Identifying problems working with teams to solve through leading actions collaboratively
• Ability to analyze and communicate requirements
• Ability to negotiate, influence, and win respect
• Ability to make timely decisions and take action
• Ability to provide information regarding tasks, plans, schedule and strategy to stakeholders
• Customer service oriented