Kitting Process Coordinator
San Antonio, TX
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Your work ties us all together, helping our teams function and operate. Experience opportunities to learn and be a part of an organization that has your back. And with competitive compensation and total rewards, you’ll also enjoy our great perks.
Work with the latest technologies and techniques in the aviation industry to source materials, manage inventory, and coordinate logistics. You’ll ensure we have what we need to service our customers.
As a Kitting Process Coordinator, you’ll direct and coordinate kitting process at a business unit or cluster level; including planning, control and scheduling of Engine/Module Kit and components to meet Kitting Plan requirements as set out in the Estimate Creation process. Coordinate with all departments and suppliers to ensure that all component repairs, subcontracts, exchanges, and parts orders arrive to meet the Kit dates for each engine. Ensures kitting equipment and procedures are effectively utilized and maintained ensuring the preparation and distribution of fully kitted engines.
What you’ll do:
• Recognize and understand flight/product safety critical parts and processes.
• Responsible for immediately reporting flight/product safety concerns.
• Participate in proactive risk analysis of flight/product safety critical parts and processes.
• Recognizes and understand the Just Culture policy.
What skills you will use:
- Develop, publish and maintain the master kitting schedule, balancing work-in-process, resources, and capacity in conjunction with Cell Leaders. Implements corrective actions to schedules when dictated by changes in product delivery dates.
- Act as a liaison between production, engineering, purchasing, sales and customer service to control, and adjust if necessary, the kitting schedule.
- Advise management of the status of engine kits in progress, material availability and routine production problems to ensure that, equipment, and materials are provided as needed.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date kit status sheets for the tracking of engine kits.
- Maintain kitting tracking board to ensure it accurately reflects current forecasts, job-flow and monthly throughput.
- Monitor pacing items and follows up and expedites directly with the vendor (external) or cell leader (internal) for all kit components. Kit components include exchanges, subcontracts, backorders, internal repairs, and accessories.
- Establish methods to meet kitting schedules and coordinates activities with other departments and/or sub-contractors to meet customer requirements.
- Monitor work in process to ensure it conforms to instructions, contract specifications, production and quality standards.
- Coordinate the daily activities of kitting staff throughout various activities including preparation, assembly and distribution. Provides instruction, information and prioritizes kitting work schedules.
- As required, scheduling customer work, managing bottlenecks, and controlling production factors to ensure balanced loads and appropriate utilization of available capacity.
- Ensure proper placement of routed and purchased components onto the engine kit trays.
- Generate kitting measures of performance and recommends operational improvements.
- Provides support and planning recommendations to production cell planners/leaders.
- Provides input to kitting planning policies and procedures.
- Ensures equipment and kitting areas are maintained and in safe condition by scheduling repair and maintenance services.
Technical Requirements
- Strong planning, organizational, analytical, decision making, leadership, interpersonal, negotiation, oral and written communication skills.
- Thorough knowledge of production management computer systems.
- Thorough knowledge of PCs in the current company operating system environment.
- Completion of APICS program, or courses equivalent to this program, and eligible to become certified under CPIM.
- Several years of experience in production planning and control.
- Thorough knowledge of records management and documentation control.
- Thorough knowledge of company instructions, company processes, unit build standards, temporary overhaul data revisions and original equipment manufacturers manuals.
- Experience in administration/records management and/or a technical role associated with technical documentation.
Background Information
The typical minimum level of education to perform this job competently is equivalent to high school graduation and completion of a diploma training program at a college or technical school. This role requires an ability to understand, utilize and communicate specialized information in speech and written text. This specialized training is often formalized and recognized by a specific certificate, diploma or license.
Directly/indirectly related work experience representing continuous learning and required for sto perform this job competently is one to three years.
Ongoing work assignments typically have clearly defined goals. The incumbents education, training, and previous experience ensure work assignments are successfully carried out because he/she understands what is expected, as well as the best approach to take.
Benefits that make life better:
- Comprehensive Healthcare
- 401(k) with 100 company match; up to 5 vested
- Paid Time Off starting on day one
- Bonus opportunities
- Health- & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short- & Long-Term Disability
- Life & AD&D Insurance
- Learning & Training opportunities
Raising the Standard of Excellence since 1911
With over a century of proven excellence, StandardAero has become an industry leader in MRO services and customized solutions in the aerospace field. Our shared values and learning-based culture inspire our team to exceed their potential and power our customers’ missions worldwide. With on-the-job training, advancement opportunities, and excellent benefits, StandardAero invites you to experience a fulfilling and meaningful career with us.
Inclusivity Is Our Standard
It is StandardAero’s policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Our supportive environment celebrates diversity with no room for harassment or discrimination of any kind. We invite you to bring your authentic self to our team and experience our welcoming culture.
