MRO Sales and Operations Planning Leader

MRO Sales and Operations Planning Leader

Published 02.13.2025 | Company:
Safran Seats | Job field:
Supply chain |

Location:

Gainesville, Texas, United States | Contract type:
Permanent | Contract duration:
Full-time | Required degree:
Bachelor’s Degree |

Required experience:

More than 3 years | Professional status:
Administrative staff | Salary range:
Based on market data

As a member of the Safran Seats business, you play a major role in teamwork that provides over one million seats to major airlines worldwide. Our commitment to superior quality, comfort and innovation ensures that you can take pride in doing meaningful work that supports the needs of passengers and crews alike.

In the context of Safran Seat’s MRO increase of activity, the MRO S&OP Leader’s responsibility is to manage the forecast, demand, and planning specific to the repair station and interface with the global supply chain organization of Safran Seats for part procurement. This position is a key enabler of our shop’s performance improvement. The MRO S&OP Leader will report directly to the Repair Station Manager and will carry improvement projects to implement and lead the S&OP management process in the shop.

The MRO S&OP Leader will also coordinate transversally the team of people in charge of planning, procurement, purchasing and logistics within the MRO department. He/She will conduct operational work in any of the functions in the perimeter, depending on needs, including creating repair orders and working closely with repair station manufacturing engineers and technicians to ensure all components are allocated accurately.

May also assist in purchase order management, Sales Order Management, and Work Order Management or any other tasks directed by the Repair Station Manager.

• Implement and then lead the supply chain process of the repair station, covering demand plan, forecasts, planning, procurement, purchasing and logistics; the implementation phase will be run through a project led by the MRO S&OP Leader.
• Coordinate with other SST Repair Stations (in France and UK), share best practices and processes to increase global maturity and consistency.
• Develop and manage well-defined interfaces with other departments in SSUS.
• Recommend a suitable training plan to develop expertise at the targeted level in Supply Chain for the MRO team; coach team members on S&OP topics as appropriate.
• Conduct operational work in any of the supply chain functions depending on needs.
• Support and drive on-time supply chain and planning activities to align with Repair Station milestones; communicate schedules and milestones to the various Materials functional groups.
• Ensure all parts are available to Repair Station when needed (internal and external).
• Manage the escalation process in case of risk identified on the supply chain performance.

• Coordinate communications between appropriate functions such as Purchasing, Planning, and Engineering to ensure the Repair Activity has the greatest chance of success.
• Work in conjunction with and drive demand planning, back-shop planning, procurement, ECN implementation, and final assembly to ensure on-time delivery.
• Maintain accurate demand dates including the scheduling of repair work orders and sales orders for the Repair Station.
• Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively to provide seamless customer service.
• Prepare required reports using ERP system, as requested by management. Ability to access relevant information from the ERP system to produce required reports.
• Manage and report part shortages and Customer backlog burn-down plans.
• Manage and report repair station inventory level.
• Work from internal and customer supplied Technical maintenance documents such as CMM, AMM, SB, SIL, ADs, drawings, work instructions and EOs to create work orders to accomplish repairs.
• Determine the appropriate lead time for repairs.
• Develop and manage the load / capacity of the shop in labor, parts and tooling.
• All other duties as assigned.

3. Qualification Requirements