Job Description

Description

Discover careers that change the world and further advancements in defense, technology, and engineering today at Northrop Grumman. Use your experience to grow your career and support our global customers with the technology, systems, and solutions they need to enable their missions on the diversity, respect, and above all teamwork. Together with our group of experts across the technical spectrum, you rsquo;ll discover opportunities to make a difference in our world and start solving some of the world rsquo;s most critical problems in the most innovative ways.

Are you ready to put your experience to work at Northrop Grumman? If so, we need you to join our Team as a Supply Chain Planning Specialist. In this position you will assist the AMF OU Supply Chain. This position is located in Lake Charles, LA.

Your duties include:

Define and develop material strategy. Responsible for the assessment of supply resources; aggregates and prioritizes demand requirements; plans inventory, distribution requirements, production, material and rough-cut capacity for all products. Participates in make/buy process, long-term capacity and resource planning; product phase-in/phase-out, manufacturing ramp-up, end-of-life management and product-line management. Analyzes and aggregates supply / demand requirements. Analyzes purchase material supply/demand position using Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools. Plans inventory levels based on dependent and independent Bill-of-Materials (BOM) requirements. Assesses rough-cut capacity for current and short-term manufacturing requirements. Creates/reduces supply requirements based on inventory adjustments. Participates in long-term capacity and resource planning to ensure proper scheduling of new product line phase-ins as well as existing product line phase-outs. Interfaces with Source process area regarding inventory levels, working capital and other areas as needed. Creates/releases requisitions. Receives/reviews requirements for non-standard parts. Analyzes lead times and identifies critical path procurements.

As a core function of the site for all requisitioning activity, MRP is responsible for processing requisitions using SAP ERP1 amp; I-Buy Systems for everything from standard site commodities, office supplies amp; Contract Labor, to Aircraft Parts, Vendor Services, Raw Stock Materials, as well as other fly away materials. The accuracy of this function can have a significant financial impact that rsquo;s far reaching, both positively and negatively. Proper cost distribution is a vital part of this function that helps keep the site affordable and attractive to new business opportunities. Other governing factors,such as complying with MMAS, local BM Accounting Rules and Corporate Compliance are enfored to ensure best value for our Customers, which in turn, leads to sustainment and site longevity.

Qualification

Basic Qualifications:

1. A Bachelor 39;s degree and a minimum of 3 yrs of supply chain planning experience. An additional 4 yrs of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement.

2. Familiarity with the following software: SAP, NGSAMS amp; MES

3. Ability to work in a multi-disciplined teaming environment with the ability to prioritize amp; adjust tasks to accomplish a desired project result.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Ability to read Profile Drawings amp; Understand Basic Latitude of Material Substitutions to Mitigate Constraints

2. Familiarity with Contract Labor Requisitioning, the I-Buy Purchasing System, QQ-A Specs for Alloy and Temper Identification, Vendor Services amp; SQ Clauses