Summary of Position:

As Sr Mgr., Head of Planning, Budgeting, Control & Governance - USA, you will be responsible of following streams:

Budgeting & Control, Planning & Performance Analysis 

1. Guarantee the development of a planning-oriented culture in Philadelphia Engineering Team and of key local processes with a strong alignment to divisional standard methodologies & approaches to facilitate divisional consolidation and planning integration
2. In alignment with cross geographical function, guide the process for the creation and update of the consistent program plans by the CPE Offices and Technical Areas / Disciplines and ensures compliance to the planning methodologies. 
3. Supporting CPE Offices and Technical Areas / Disciplines by monitoring and verifying that, at all integration levels, plans are fully consistent and feasible with a full understanding of risks, impacts and critical paths. 
4. Acting proactively in scenario analyses, monitoring, control risk mitigation and replanning activities. 
5. Coordinate the entire planning and budgeting process by ensuring that Technical Planners properly capture schedule requirements (both on launched and prospect activities) and collect efforts at program / platform level. 
6. With a full understanding of inter-dependencies, risks, impacts and critical paths and leveraging on managed units / periodic reviews with Technical Planners, collect key evidence and provide a managerial control by assessing key implications for Engineering & Innovation organization. 
7. Guiding managed units in performing scenario / variance analyses, issue anticipation and corrective actions definition / proposal. 
8. Support CPE Offices and Technical Areas / Disciplines by monitoring and verifying that, at all integration levels, plans are fully consistent and feasible. 
9. In coordination with global function, supports the end-to-end management of the local Engineering and Innovation demand / capacity matching: 
   • Analyze consolidated plans and overall demand workload and supply capacity. 
   • Analyze actual performance vs Budget / Forecast and perform consolidated engineering Scenario analysis, Risk Analysis, simulations, and forecasts. 
   • Proactively anticipate demand-capacity matching issues proposing recovery actions to key engineering stakeholders 

10. Budget Consolidation 
    • Consolidate local budget in alignment and within overall Engineering & Innovation Budget with by program / platform / WBS / WBE and by Technical Area / Cost Centre. 
    • Coordinate and control local engineering budget & accounting 
    • Consolidate plans, progresses and reports at engineering level ensuring monitoring & control of overall performance, KPI management and releasing of formal reporting (schedule, costs, demographics, …) 
    • Manage aggregated / consolidated reporting within Engineering & Innovation. 
    • Key interface for AFC – Controlling. 
11. Offload Management 
    • Coordinate Engineering & Innovation offload process by collecting quarterly offload requests and supporting Technical Areas / Disciplines on variance analysis. 

1. Governance

In full alignment with global function leadership, leads the seamless and integrated functioning of Engineering & Innovation operating model and acts as competence center devoted to its continuous improvement, competitiveness and effectiveness by developing and managing departmental Processes & Methodologies, Improvement Initiatives & Transformation programs, Tools & Data, Knowledge Management System, Competence & Collaboration models.

1. Processes & Methodologies with the mandate to: 

• Define and monitor implementation of global and local processes and procedures. 
• Guarantee the alignment with the engineering procedures that are valid across all geographies, 
• Prepare functional requirement for IT, monitor progress of implementation and provide specific users’ training. 

1. Tools, Data Management 

• Concur to LH Engineering digitalization strategy definition working together with Processes and Improvement initiative function
• Identify specific digitalization needs for LH US Engineering, and in alignment with Processes and Improvement initiative function be responsible for their deployment 
• Special focus on the deployment of systems engineering digital tools (MBSE, management of the integration of complex architectures, requirement management…)
• Be responsible for the identification of IT and digitalization needs for LH US Engineering and proper budget

1. Knowledge Management, Competences & Collaboration, with the mandate to: 

• In alignment with global function, govern the execution of Engineering & Innovation Knowledge Management process in terms of content collection, promotion and usage within Knowledge Management System. 
• Support HR&O units in coordinating Engineering & Innovation Experts nomination / evaluation processes and in tracking engineering skill / competences evolution. 
• Ease collaboration and information sharing within the entire Engineering & Innovation organization. 

1. Systems Engineering

• Support Company transformation with the goal to deploy and foster systems engineering culture
• Responsible to deploy Systems Engineering processes, tools and methodologies necessary for the LH US Engineering, including model-based systems engineering (MBSE). 
• Identify and develop opportunities of training.
• Support all business initiatives that require to have in place systems engineering processes and tools.
• Be part of a larger Business Development initiative, utilizing Systems Engineering principles and engineering technical expertise to aid the team in identifying new business opportunities, new research areas, and new product development. Developing high-level mission requirements during pre-bid activities with potential customers
• Develop a world class team of systems engineers and innovative thinkers to compete in the emerging vertical lift technologies sector in order to grow LH market share

2.   Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

 Budgeting & Control, Planning & Performance Analysis 

Governance

Systems Engineering

1. Qualifications for Position: 

         A. Education

Master or PHD in Engineering discipline

         B. Experience

10+ years of working experience in the aerospace & defense industry, with significant project management, planning and budgeting experience

         C. Competencies & Attributes

1. Have experience in budget consolidation and management. Experience continuous improvement, Project management experience in complex environment and multiple stakeholders

2 Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (at least Word, Excel, Power Point, Access as plus)

3. Engineering/aerospace technical background with processes, budgeting, planning and systems knowledge.

4. Have an understanding of  MBSE and other Systems Engineering digital tool

5. PLM processes Knowledge and engineering tools

6. Good organizational and planning skills, experience in transformation, good communication, ability to network and produce strong functional impact. Ability to develop an integrated vision balancing complex stakeholders

7. Strong attention to engineering operational excellence and Processes Improvement methodologies and (Lean Six Sigma certification as a plus)

         D. Licensure/Certification

Program and Project management recognized trainings, finance training, operational excellence in engineering qualifications

• Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disability