Director, Inventory Management

Purpose of Position

Flight Safety International is the world's premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Flight Safety operates the world's largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

The Director of Simulator Inventory Management is a strategic leadership role responsible for setting the vision, policies, and execution framework for all simulator-related inventory operations across the organization. This leader ensures that spare parts, rotatable components, and support materials for all Flight Training Devices (FTDs) and Full Flight Simulators (FFSs) are available when needed and without overstocking or overspending.

All strategies, processes, and team behaviors are expected of our Flight Plan, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, culture, and performance standards.

The Director works closely with senior management, Simulation to include Simulation Operations Support (SOS), and Learning Center teams to ensure inventory strategies align with Flight Plan commitments as well as financial, operational, data reliability and device reliability objectives. This role drives consistency, accuracy, digital transformation, and continuous improvement across all learning center inventory system.

The Director of Simulator Inventory Management is critical to ensuring Flight Safety's simulator fleet operates with maximum efficiency, minimal downtime, and optimal cost control. By providing strategic direction, operational excellence, and cross-functional leadership this role contributes to the reliability of training devices, in collaboration with Regional DSOs.

• Develop and implement enterprise wide inventory management strategies, encompassing receiving, storage, internal logistics, Hub and spoke model, shipping, and auditing processes
• Align inventory policies and long‑term planning with organizational operational goals and simulator uptime targets
• Establish inventory KPIs, accuracy metrics, and performance dashboards

• Direct the simulator spares inventory management function across all Learning Centers
• Ensure minimum stock levels for expendable and rotatable parts are properly defined, maintained, and optimized based on usage history, forecasted needs, varing simulator configurations
• Lead and mentor inventory management teams, fostering collaboration, high performance, and consistent execution of best practices
• Provide guidance and training frameworks for Spares Support personnel

• Establish and maintain robust daily/weekly cycle count programs, driving achievement of monthly and quarterly accuracy targets,
• Ensure automated records of physical inventory are accurate, up‑to‑date, and aligned with corporate requirements
• Oversee processes to acquire and maintain spares cost, pricing data, and repair quotes, ensuring cost‑effective decisions

• Work closely with SOS to prioritize critical-path spare parts and support training equipment, ensuring alignment
• Coordinate with RDSOs, Fleet Directors and Learning Center leadership when applicable to forecast and prepare for upcoming repair or replacement requirements and inventory impact
• Provide clear, timely reporting on inventory health, financial impact, and stock count
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency, reduce carrying costs, and minimize downtime due to parts shortages and lead times
• Standardize procedures and adopt best practices across all inventory operations
• Strong leadership experience with managing multiple locations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with engineering and operations
• Analytical skills with the ability to interpret inventory data,…