Published 09.03.2024
Company: Safran Seats
Job field: Supply chain
Location: Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom
Contract type: Permanent
Contract duration: Full-time
Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award-winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality, and industrial design.
At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!
In the UK, Safran Seats specializes solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.
The purpose of this role is to support production by the timely provision of relevant paperwork and managing of shortages, providing full visibility to both production and logistics of manufacturing and kitting needs.
Key Responsibilities
1. Responsible for internal planning by work centre. Analyse demand and capacity to achieve optimum work centre load.
2. Responsible to monitor Production adherence against plan, work closely with Operations team to ensure alignment and execution of plan.
3. Take ownership and drive continuous improvement of internal KPI's, understanding any deviations.
4. Responsible to drive and develop recovery plans within the internal Operational Team where appropriate.
5. Own and manage ERP planning parameters.
6. Responsible to confirm MPS/MRP demand in line with Business System.
7. Accountable to coordinate the inputs to Production. To monitor production progress against scheduling and intervene as when required to bring deliveries back in line with schedule.
8. Work with Supply Chain on anticipated material availability concerns and ensure internal suppliers maintain continuity of supply.
9. Investigate MPS/MRP anomalies, ascertain root cause and implement corrective actions.
10. Monitors and maintain inventory WIP levels on shop floor to ensure alignment with demand.
11. Responsible in the participation of annual Company stock take activities by validating material variances.
12. Actively participates in One Safran/CI/Lean projects.
13. Be involved in planning introduction of new products (NPI), by participating in cross-functional meetings.
14. Attend weekly CCB meetings to determine the impact to Production. To action stock dispositions within the Business system taking into consideration, cost implications of rework and resources, whilst ensuring MRP demand is accurate.
15. Facilitate daily planning/operational meetings to ensure all issues are communicated and shift changeover take place efficiently.
Complementary Description
Our in-house design studio co-creates the most innovative experiences in the sky with our airline customers and partners. Our dedicated engineering, production and in-service support facilities are integral to delivering a high-end quality product that we keep flying throughout the life of the programme. We are fully supported by a wide team of support functions, from HR to Finance, to Business Development and Planning and Logistics, our team is built to give Safran Seats an end-to-end capability in-house in the UK.
Our Focus
Our people are at the heart of our success, as we work together to achieve our mission: contributing to a safer and more sustainable aviation. We are tackling the biggest challenges in aerospace, with a commitment to work to decarbonise the industry by 2050.
Job Requirements
1. Good understanding of MRP and knowledge of principles.
2. Experience in Production Scheduling role, within a Manufacturing environment.
3. Experience of using ERP software.
4. Flexible.
5. Strong planning and organisational skills.
6. Attention to detail.
7. Good IT skills including Microsoft Office (ability to manage and manipulate high volumes of data in a digestible format for presentations).
8. Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
9. Ability to work unsupervised.
10. Ability and flexibility to travel to other Safran Sites.
Specificity of the job
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