Director Supply Planning

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Lansdale, PA, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Software • Cybersecurity • Defense
In an era of dynamic change, Aerospace is addressing the most complex challenges in space.
The Role
Leads end-to-end site supply planning, material flow, inventory control, capacity planning, production scheduling, and customer shipment execution. Owns SIOP alignment, clear-to-build readiness, schedule health, inventory accuracy, receiving, kitting, shipping, and recovery planning. Partners cross-functionally to resolve constraints, improve delivery performance, reduce excess inventory, establish operational discipline, and build high-performing supply chain teams in an aerospace manufacturing environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

The Director of supply Chain (ISC) is a key member of the site ISC leadership team and serves as the senior operational partner to the ISC leader.  This role owns the end-to-end planning, control and physical movement of material across the operation from supply planning and inbound receiving through inventory control, material presentation / kitting and final shipments to the customer. 

The Director will create the operational disciple and cross-functional connectivity required to translate customer demand into executable production and shipment plans.  This leader is accountable fore ensuring material availability, schedule health, inventory accuracy, clear-to-build readiness and disciplined execution against customer commitments. 

The successful candidate will be a highly visible, hands-on leader who combines strong supply chian analytics with operational execution and a relentless focus on the customer. 

Responsibilities

Supply Planning & Customer Execution

  • Own the site supply planning process, translating customer demand and business priorities into executable production, material, and shipment plans.
  • Establish and manage the rolling production and shipment outlook, with partial focus on the current month and rolling 4–12-week horizon.
  • Own schedule health and ensuring production plans are achievable, appropriately challenging and aligned with material and capacity constraints. 
  • Drives clear to build visibility across the operation, identifying material constraints before they impact production or customer commitments. 
  • Leads recovery planning for past due orders and delivery performance, establishing clear actions, wonder, and escalation paths to achieve customer commitments.
  • Provides the Voice of the customer within ISC, ensuring customer priorities and delivery risks are clearly translated into operational actions.
  • Partner with Operations, Procurement, Engineering, Quality and Program Management to resolve constraints and maximize customer output. 

Material Flow and Execution.

  •  Own the end-to-end physical movement of material from receipt though shipment.
  • Provide leadership for Receiving, Inventory Control, Material Handling / Kitting and shipping
  • Establish standard work and material -flow strategies that ensure material is available at the point of use when required
  • Improves dock to stock, receiving, staging kitting material presentation, and shipment execution
  • Eliminate material shortages and transactional gaps that disrupt production flow.
  • Develop visual management and daily operating mechanisms to identify and resolve material-flow constraints quickly. 
  • Ensure shipping executes the daily, weekly and monthly shipment plan while maximizing opportunities to accelerate customer deliveries. 

Inventory Control

  • Own inventory accuracy and inventory-control maturity across the site. 
  • Establish disciplined cycle counting, reconciliation, material transaction, and root cause and corrective action processes
  • Direct accountability for inventory accuracy throughout the entire material lifecycle.
  • Reduce excess, obsolete and inactive and stranded inventory while protecting customer delivery
  • Establishes PFEP and material-control strategies appropriate to the operation

SIOP, Capacity and Forward Planning

  • Serve as a key operational leader within the SIOP process, ensuring demand translates into realistic supply and capacity plans
  • Establishes rough-cut-capacity planning at the appropriate levels of the organization.
  • Identify future capacity, labor, material supplier and production constraints before they impact customer commitments
  • Challenge demand and production assumptions where required to prevent unrealistic ramps or unstable production plans
  • Simultaneous challenge operations to identify oppportunies to surge, increase throughput and recover customer commitments.
  • Ensure alignment between demand planning, supply planning, procurement, production execution and customer delivery. 

Leadership Expectations:

The successful candidate will be a strong supply chain leader who can move seamlessly between strategy, analytics and tactical daily execution.  The Director must demonstrate the ability to build high-performing teams, establish supply chain discipline, simplify complex problems and create transparency though metrics and visual management.  Above all, this leader must maintain supply chain performance ultimately translate into the organization’s ability to delivery on its customer and business commitments.  

Qualifications

YOU MUST HAVE

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations, Business or related discipline; advance degree preferred.
  • Significant progressive leadership experience in supply chain, manufacturing operaitns, planning or material management
  • Demonstrated leadership of supply chain and physical material flow organization
  • Strong experience with SIOP, production planning, inventory management, capacity planning and manufacturing execution.
  • Demonstrated success improving delivery performance, reducing past due and stabilizing complex production environments.
  • Strong analytical capability and experience using ERP/MRP systems (oracle and SAP Hana)

About us:

Join a company that's reintroducing itself to the aviation community we've helped advance for more than a century. At Honeywell Aerospace (NASDAQ: HONA), we're launching as an independent, publicly traded aerospace and defense company built on a legacy of operational excellence and mission-focused execution. 

Our new brand identity pairs that heritage with real momentum, as we build technology that helps pilots navigate with confidence, aircraft operate more efficiently, and operators stay ahead of change. With our systems on board 90% of the world's aircraft, your work here has reach that's rare to find anywhere else.

Focusing on our customers, investing in innovation, and building a culture of accountability and performance is how we're shaping what comes next.

Every horizon. Every mission. Every day.

 

Benefits:

Beyond a performance-driven salary, you'll work alongside dedicated experts on technology that's advancing aviation. As a Honeywell Aerospace employee, you're eligible for a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

  • Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
  • Employee assistance program and educational assistance
  • Parental leave and 12 paid holidays
  • Paid time off for vacation, personal and sick time

Explore your benefits: https://honeywellaerospacebenefits.com/

 

Posting Timeline

The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.


Honeywell Aerospace products and services are found on aircraft across commercial aviation, defense and space — from engines and cockpit electronics to cabin systems, mechanical components and connectivity solutions. Our technology helps operators fly more safely, reduce fuel consumption, improve on-time performance and deliver a better experience for the people on board. 

As aviation continues to evolve, we're also developing systems to support autonomous and supersonic platforms, bringing the same focus on safety and efficiency to the next era of flight. With approximately 36,000 employees worldwide and net sales of $17.4B in 2025, Honeywell Aerospace is one of the largest dedicated aerospace companies in the world. Explore our businesses: https://www.honeywellaerospace.com

Electronic Solutions develops the avionics, navigation systems, sensors and electromagnetic defense technology that help aircraft perform safely and with precision. Our systems are on board 90% of the world's aircraft — serving commercial aviation, defense and space operators from integrated flight deck platforms with 30-plus years in service to radiation-hardened systems trusted for human spaceflight.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, business, or a related discipline
  • Advanced degree
  • Significant progressive leadership experience in supply chain, manufacturing operations, planning, or material management
  • Leadership experience overseeing supply chain and physical material flow organizations
  • Experience with SIOP, production planning, inventory management, capacity planning, and manufacturing execution
  • Demonstrated success improving delivery performance, reducing past-due orders, and stabilizing complex production environments
  • Strong analytical capability
  • Experience using ERP/MRP systems, including Oracle and SAP HANA

The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Aerospace Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by The Aerospace Corporation.

  • Retirement Support The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
  • Flexible Benefits Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.

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The Company
HQ: Chantilly, VA
4,600 Employees
Year Founded: 1960

What We Do

The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.

Why Work With Us

We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.

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