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Master Planner

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General information

Entity

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.

Reference number

2025-168682

Job details

Domain

Production

Job field / Job profile

Supply chain - Mps planner

Job title

Master Planner

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

Job Summary

The Master Planner is a key contributor to the effective operation of the MRO repair station. The Master Planner is responsible for preparing and managing maintenance schedules that support efficient and reliable repair and overhaul activities. This role requires a strategic focus on resource allocation and supply chain coordination to achieve turnaround time (TAT) objectives and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

But what else? (advantages, specificities, etc.)

• Perform document analysis (CMM, SB and OM) to identify changes in the illustrated parts list (New parts, new kit, parts deleted, part superseded).

• Create or modify parts in SAP, based on changes identified in the document analysis.

• Setup Bill of Repair (K%) with support of engineering team to anticipate new, increase or decrease of consumption.

Candidate skills & requirements

Essential Job Functions

• Analyze work in progress to ensure alignment with customer requirements and company objectives.

• Analyze all requirements both internal and external.

• Set daily priorities for all support groups. Ensure proper levels of support/delivery of AOG/MEL/Customer Expedites.

• Review production schedules to ensure alignment with customer requirements and company objectives (TAT/SPT & Revenue). Analyze available capacity and recommend solutions.

• Daily review of units to ensure SPT can be met, or alternate solutions are realized.

• Work closely with all support groups to eliminate or reduce constraints to maximize production processes.

• Chair weekly priorities meetings as needed to align support groups with production goals and problem resolution.

• Support weekly reporting of shortage levels, status of top shortages with action plans, and LRU pool delta with action plans for programs support production meeting.

• Daily monitoring & analysis of Late Delivery Root Cause steps for orders exceeding contractual TAT.

• Monitor supply chain queue for all blocked notifications.

• Provide Customer Support team with status and estimated date of delivery for units in work in progress.

• Provide EDD's and status to Customer Service Support team.

• Correct EDD's with initial commitment date is past due and provide explanation of delay

• Monitor inventory levels.

• Manage LRU exchange pool and prepare purchasing requests for procurement team.

• Determine and maintain SRU/piece part inventory levels.

• Create and monitor piece part consumption (Consumption increase, consumption decrease, gap between historical and Bill of Repair K%).

• Evaluate inventory for excess and obsolete material. Then, provide disposition of scrap, sell or keep based on that decision.

• Manage cannibalization requests to fill shortages/pool and ensure that the process is performed by the shop in a timely manner.

• Create weekly purchase order requests for all parts that require replenishment.

• Review part shortages daily/weekly. Ensure critical shortages are highlighted to purchasing and request information which can be passed on to the customer. Investigate and propose solutions for critical shortages through supplier ERP, if available.

• Provide weekly shortage reports to supply chain manager.

• Validate all new part creation requests, ensuring that the part has the necessary fields completed.

• Other duties may be assigned.

Annual salary

Based on the market rate

Job location

Job location

North America, United States, Texas

City (-ies)

Grand Prairie, TX 75052

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum experience level required

More than 3 years

ITAR Controlled Position: Select "Yes" if role requires U.S. citizenship/permanent residency

Yes