Integrated Planning Lead

At RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can.

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 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 may have direct reports.

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

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

We prefer candidates with:

• 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work schedules
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Parental (including paternal) leave
• Paid time off and holidays
• Achievement awards
• Educational assistance
• Child/adult backup care

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

Pay

The salary range for this role is 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Schedule

This role is onsite.