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The Military Engines industrial operations team is seeking a skilled Industrial Lead Manager to spearhead industrial planning for the current F135 program. As a key player in production and sustainment ramp-up, this role offers high visibility and an opportunity to lead all facets of industrial planning. Are you ready to take on this dynamic role?

This position is an opportunity to be fully integrated with every organization within Pratt & Whitney, which includes our partners and supply chain. The Industrial Lead Manager will support a CIPT (Component Integrated Product Team) within a module center and will focus on delivery, quality, and cost goals with a near term focus of on time delivery to the customer. The Industrial Lead Manager will also focus efforts on engineering changes, manufacturing learning and strategic sourcing initiatives.

What You Will Do:

• Lead industrial planning - structure, framework and timing on sourcing and manufacturing decisions; drive Material Requirements Planning (MRP) efforts for the CIPT
• Prioritize and manage production readiness assessments; develop, track, and close action items to increase capacity and capability at suppliers
• Lead single points of failure and material changes that will impact sourcing decisions; ensure transition plans are properly supported to ensure incumbents can deliver until new sources are delivering parts at production ramp rates
• Identify risks to supplier production ramp, continuing fleet sustainment, build mitigation plans, and drive actions to closure
• Oversee the preparation and delivery of Production Readiness activities to the CIPT and Executive Management
• Identify, quantify and elevate risk to commitments based on hardware requirements, production scheduled, etc.
• Up to 10% travel

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in an engineering, manufacturing supply chain, program/project management or a related field; OR a Master’s degree and 5 years of experience
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract

Qualifications we prefer:

• Prior experience leading a team and managing constantly shifting priorities in a deadline driven environment
• Experience working with and interfacing with executive level management
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite of applications and SAP
• Experience implementing and driving lean manufacturing techniques

What is my role type?

In addition to transforming the future of flight, we are also transforming how and where we work. We’ve introduced role types to help you understand how you will operate in our blended work environment. This role is:

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance workers, as they are essential to the development of our engines.