Integrated Planning Lead

Date Posted:

2024-08-08

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA101: Andover MA 350 Lowell St Essex 350 Lowell Street Essex, Andover, MA, 01810 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.  

Raytheon is seeking an Integrated Planning Lead.  The Integrated Planning function within RTX is responsible for driving schedule alignment with financial, factory, program operations, and engineering stakeholders which results in an integrated plan, providing the basis for long term sales and operations execution (S&OE). S&OE gives program managers and value stream leaders the ability to come together and make strategic and tactical decisions about how to collectively run their businesses to optimize customer satisfaction and financial performance.  The Integrated Planning team drives execution efficiency by applying analytics and optimization to system data to support business processes.

This execution position is focused on program readiness for major end-items tied to firm contracts.  This role is responsible for understanding production demand profiles and the corresponding internal and external constraints to ensure potential issues are well-understood, communicated, and addressed in a timely manner. 

What You Will Do:

• Enable decision making and collaboration across a variety of functions and program areas through data analysis, simulation, and fact-based influence. 
• Identify areas of greatest risk and variability and analyze different scenarios to establish contingency plans as needed to increase Raytheon’s ability to deliver on schedule. 
• Be directly involved in scheduling and planning decisions for major deliverables and provide process support and oversight with focus on near-term and mid-term plans. 
• Leverage strong interpersonal and leadership skills to be successful in optimizing the schedule around factory efficiency, high customer satisfaction, and consistency in achieving financial targets. 
• Work closely with the cross-functional execution team.
• Provide strategic and organizational support to ensure the efficient execution of activities for Integrated Planning that drive high impact and high visibility.
• Interface and coordinate with Program Leadership Team and other functional customers.
• Interface with Factory Production Control Leads and Planners.
• Communicate schedule changes across multiple factories
• Run and analyze Kinaxis simulations for strategic execution
• Coordinate material for various test milestones
• Help develop strategic mitigation plans (MRSP) with the Program and Material Program Managers
• Drive MRP Health data integrity
• Help maintain Planned Independent Requirements and Dependent Demand
• Coordinate PRISM set-up for transition to full rate production
• Support and drive program Line of Balance actions
• Support customer-oriented meetings and briefing material
• Filter and distill relevant information from complex datasets into simple messages
• Mediate discussions between stakeholders with varying incentives and arrive at consensus.
• Read and evaluate lists of parts required for production work and working with a production planning system.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Minimum 8 years in engineering, operations, supply chain, analytics and/or similar role.
• This position requires a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization.
• Experience in relevant role such as production, material program manager, program operations, manufacturing or other similar type role.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Working knowledge of ITAR rules and regulations
• Experience with SAP systems or other ERP systems
• Experience with Government and Depot type processes
• Proficient with MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint 
• Understanding of internal processes for developing financial plans (i.e. AOP, EAC, proposals, etc.)
• Experience working within Kinaxis
• Demonstrated experience interfacing, collaborating, and communicating with all levels of an organization, as well as with a large external customer base to accomplish tasks.
• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience.