Job Description

Services Parts Planner

Full time
Derby

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to join the Trent XWB Sales & Operations Planning team as a Services Parts Planner. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a team accountable for forecasting over £500m of parts demand every year.

The Trent XWB Value Stream is at the heart of one of the most successful widebody aircraft programmes in modern aviation. The Trent XWB engine family is the exclusive powerplant for the Airbus A350 family, providing industry-leading efficiency, reliability and long-range capability.

The successful candidate will carry out the parts planning, forecasting and inventory management activities required to support a wide range of customer, overhaul, repair and distribution networks. Other key activities include working closely with external and internal stakeholders (used material / supply chain) to understand part policies / usage, developing new approaches and recommendations to improve financial performance and demand accuracy. An operational focus is also required to be maintained in order to highlight emerging risk to MRO overhaul activities.

You will be comfortable in working across multi-functional teams, obtaining and challenging information to determine root causes, making decisions through risk-based analysis to ensure cost-effective corrective solutions are put in place and taking ownership to drive investigations and actions to conclusion. including Engineering, Engine Clearance, Repair Services and Supply Chains based in the UK and overseas.

What you will be doing:

In this role you will evaluate SIOP demand and supply plans to identify customer or financial risk and manage resolution of any issues, as well as:

• Work with customers to maintain forecasts for all in service requirements, ensuring variances to forecast are investigated and quality of demand accuracy and inventory is improved.
• Plan, manage, report and drive inventory by analysing trends to produce recommendations that improves/manages inventory and stock turn objectives.
• Liaise with various disciplines across the Project Team to develop an accurate understanding of the Fleet Operational Plan and other parts usage drivers including campaign and cost management activity.
• Lead & support development of active used material management processes and policies in support of customer MRO activities.
• Identify and evaluate causes of variability, impact of policy changes, financial considerations and risk mitigation strategies which affect demand accuracy.
• Apply through-life policies to generate gross asset (component) forecast and stock requirements for new, used and repair supply chains.
• Maintain the appropriate understanding of the current performance of the new parts and repair supply chains to enable appropriate and early recommendations to manage risks.
• Support product change governance including attendance at PCB, PTM and Repair Executive Reviews.
• Support process improvement through Community of Practice.