Demand Planning Supervisor

For over 65 years, Columbia Helicopters have been a trusted provider of heavy-lift helicopter services. We create new aircraft, fly heavy-lift helicopters around the world, and provide maintenance support to ensure you are mission-ready for critical operations. If you are passionate about aviation, join our Columbia Family!

The Demand Planning Supervisor is accountable for leadership, functional execution, and management of all functions and assigned staff in the Production Planning organization for the shops under their responsibility. The incumbent ensures the effective planning, supply management, Work Order and Repair Order execution, goods harvesting, and the scheduling of Unserviceable Inventory recertification events for parts required to sustain aircraft operation and resultant demands. He/she provides leadership and guidance to the Production/Supply Planners as needed to ensure the necessary Spares Plans are established to support operations world-wide.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides leadership, guidance, and oversight to assigned Production/Supply Planners to ensure that the adequate supply plans are established to support Component and Expendable requirements
• Monitors the various Supply Planning reports, systems, and tools for supply exception conditions, ensuring said supply exception conditions are driven /managed into health
• Directs the operation of assigned personnel and the utilization of department resources to effectively support the company's business needs and financial goals.
• Coordinates and works across a broad base of customers and collaborators, managing and leading both laterally, upwards and downwards, to ensure effective, high-velocity information, decision and action flow for parts that may require cross-functional collaboration or effort to attain supply health
• Provides short-term and long-term planning for department services, organization, staffing, and use of technology
• Conducts performance evaluations, plans salary actions, recommends hires and promotions, addresses employee disciplinary issues, anticipates and plans for skills and human resource requirements and develops staff to meet those needs, interprets and applies organization policies, and provides leadership toward resolving employee problems
• Conduct oneself in accordance with Company's Core Values

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• 6-10 years' experience in similar Supply Planning, Production Control/Production Planning roles across a variety of industries
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent training and/or experience preferred
• Competence/hands-on knowledge to continually identify and address Best Practices in Supply Planning which can be brought to bear to CHIs challenging supply planning needs and situations
• Proven Supervisory, Management and or program or team leadership skills with a demonstrated and successful history of coaching and development of technical professionals from entry to senior levels
• Experience in the aviation industry preferred
• Demonstrated proficiency in advanced Supply Planning and/or adjunct Supply Planning disciplines such as Lean, Six Sigma, Program Management, advanced ERP and other planning software systems and tools
• Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and ability to learn other applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able present ideas, concepts and proposals with a wide range of audiences at all levels, technical or non-technical, both internal and external
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)