Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
Lead a team of production controllers and shop schedulers in charge of scheduling to execution to the execution of the MPS in operations. Includes the management and oversight of the communication/monitoring of the sequence of production orders to ensure maximum capacity utilization. Work with supply chain to ensure the availability of resources (tooling, raw material etc and with Operations for personnel resources. Key stakeholder in the MPS and MRP process, provide inputs to SIOP process.
Job Responsibilities
- Ensure safe working environment.
- Manage team in accordance with GKN’s cultural principles and inspires employee engagement and high levels of performance
- Define SWIP inventory strategy and ensures schedulers apply the policy.
- Monitor manufacturing output/performance daily against the schedule, challenging and understanding whenever performance differs from the standard
- Maximize shared manufacturing resource output/utilization while ensuring full coherence with the MPS product mix, volumes and required availability dates.
- Ensure that sequenced plan is feasible, balance, includes scheduled downtime, is supportable with available packaging, tooling, fixtures etc.
- Monitor availability of raw material/components and escalate as required to procurement/master scheduler.
- Proactively communicate to master scheduler/operations management potential production execution issues/constraints to trigger preventative actions against potential supply failure
- Weekly track, challenge and report schedule adherence with reasons for deviation to operations management and master scheduler
- Monitor external supplier capacity and execution working with external supply chain coordinator and purchasing
- Support customer and external supplier meetings
Job Qualifications
- 5+ Years’ Experience Managing Production Control
- Proficient in MS Office and other relevant software
Education
- High School Diploma
Formal Qualifications
- U.S. Person per ITAR regulations to comply with export compliance and site SSA requirements
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ Years’ Experience in Aerospace
- Supply Chain or APICS certificate
- SAP software
Physical:
- Must be able to work in a production environment and travel throughout the facility and corporation to obtain information needed to perform job functions.
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 30lbs, using proper lifting techniques.
- Some travel required.
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
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