SIOP Manager

Position

Description:

SIOP Manager

Baldwin City, KS

Supply Chain

Site Leader

Onsite

Victor Sierra Aviation (VSA)   a Trans Digm Group company   is the parent of McFarlane Aviation, McFarlane Alaska, Tempest Aero Group®, AV8, and Aviation Products Systems. We acquire and build businesses that lead in engineering, manufacturing, and distribution of exceptional aerospace products, with 450 employees across Kansas, North Carolina, Alaska, Washington, and Texas.

Headquartered in Baldwin City, Kansas, McFarlane Aviation has spent more than 50 years engineering, manufacturing, and distributing high-quality FAA-PMA aircraft parts, controls, cables, and aerospace components for general aviation, commercial, military, and experimental aircraft. The team is committed to delivering better parts with exceptional, old-fashioned customer service   the McFarlane way.

The SIOP (Supply, Inventory, Operations & Planning) Manager leads McFarlane Aviation's planning, purchasing, inventory, and distribution functions, with oversight of the Purchasing team and the Distribution Supervisor. This role builds the systems and processes that turn customer demand, material requirements, supplier capability, and production capacity into an executable plan   with a strong focus on our ERP/MRP system and improving on-time delivery, fill rate, schedule attainment, and inventory performance.

We’re looking for someone who can pull planning, purchasing, inventory, and distribution together into one connected system, partners closely with Operations, and is just as comfortable running the planning cadence from the ERP screen as walking the warehouse floor with the Distribution team.

• Own and continuously improve material and production planning processes
• Develop ERP/MRP as the primary system for planning, purchasing, inventory, and operational decision-making
• Establish and maintain effective planning parameters including lead times, safety stocks, order policies, lot sizes, planning horizons, and other critical master data
• Translate customer demand and forecasts into executable material and production requirements
• Develop short- and long-range capacity planning to identify constraints and support realistic production schedules
• Establish a disciplined planning cadence across Supply Chain, Operations, Sales, and other functions
• Drive schedule attainment by proactively identifying and resolving material, supplier, inventory, and capacity constraints
• Improve master data ownership and reduce dependence on spreadsheets, expediting, manual workarounds, and tribal knowledge

• Lead and develop the Purchasing team, and the Distribution Supervisor and their team, with clear roles, standard work, priorities, and performance expectations
• Establish inventory strategies that balance customer availability, supplier lead time, working capital, and supply risk
• Improve inventory accuracy through effective transaction controls, cycle counting, and material handling processes
• Develop appropriate stocking strategies, safety stocks, inventory targets, and shortage management processes
• Drive improvement in material availability and customer fill rate
• Provide leadership for shipping, receiving, warehousing, and logistics through the Distribution Supervisor to ensure effective material flow throughout the business
• Own the KPIs for the distribution function   including shipping accuracy, dock-to-stock time, and warehouse safety   and drive continuous improvement against them

• Establish a structured supplier performance management and scorecard process with measurable…