Value Stream Leader, Thermal Switch

About the role

Acron Aviation designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems supporting safety-critical flight operations. Their Aftermarket division supports operators, OEMs, and maintenance providers with technical expertise, product support, and lifecycle sustainment solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve SIOP governance process and standard work
• Lead weekly SIOP cadences throughout Acron Avionics product lines and functions
• Provide governance and support to monthly revenue, EBITDA, inventory and cash estimates and variance analysis
• Accountable for revenue and inventory results, constraint management and variation management
• Demand Management & Signal Integrity: Monthly demand (firm and forecast) aggregation, segmentation, analysis and updates
• Forecasting by family/platform and customer program using analytics
• Order book governance: expedite rules, priority codes, backlog hygiene
• Publish rolling 12 – 24 monthly demand forecast guidance
• Create master schedule using level loading and smoothing
• Rough-cut supply planning by value stream / site / supplier
• Supply policy: make/buy, min order quantities, safety time/stock rules
• Constraint mapping: labor, test equipment, special processes, critical suppliers
• Capacity Management & Rate Readiness: Capacity modeling (labor, equipment, tooling, test cells, inspection)
• Rate readiness reviews (new rates, surges, contract awards)
• Capital planning inputs (equipment/test capacity, facility constraints)
• Integrated Reconciliation (Demand–Supply–Finance): Revenue/margin/cash reconciliation
• Inventories projections (raw/WIP/FG), working capital targets
• Schedule risk and opportunity quantification and mitigation plans
• Scenario modeling: expedite vs overtime vs inventory builds vs alternate sourcing
• Execution Bridge (SIOP → MPS/MRP → Scheduling): Frozen zone / slushy zone / liquid zone policy (stability rules)
• Master schedule governance and exception management
• Backlog recovery and expedite management
• Alignment to production control (WIP caps, takt/rate targets where applicable)
• People & Culture Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop cross-functional teams within the SIOP value stream
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Reinforce safety-first and compliance-first behaviors
• Develop future SIOP value stream and operations leaders

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Supply Chain, Statistics, Engineering or related field
• 9+ years of progressive aerospace manufacturing or operations leadership
• Demonstrated experience leading or operating within a formal S&OE / SIOP process
• Proven lean manufacturing and continuous improvement leadership
• Strong financial acumen in P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP in SAP, or equivalent
• Strongly analytical skills (Excel/Power BI or similar), scenario planning, and constraint-based thinking
• Demonstrated experience in what-if modeling and machine and labor capacity modeling
• Strong understanding of aerospace certification, quality, and compliance requirements
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, persuasion and negotiation

Preferred Additional Skills

• APICS/ASCM certifications (CPIM/CSCP) or equivalent planning credentials
• Leverage of AI tools in the hiring process
• Lean/Continuous Improvement training (Toyota Production System, kaizen, Tiered daily management)
• A customer-driven mindset: plans built around meeting customer needs while balancing established financial targets