Value Stream Leader, Thermal Switch in Grand Rapids, Michigan at Acron Aviation

Acron Aviation designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems that support safety-critical flight operations across commercial and military aviation. Our avionics portfolio includes surveillance, recorders, displays, and related systems developed in regulated environments and deployed on aircraft worldwide. Through our Aftermarket organization, we support operators, OEMs, and maintenance providers by delivering technical expertise, product support, reliability improvements, and lifecycle sustainment solutions that maximize system availability and customer value. This work requires close collaboration across engineering, operations, quality, and customer support teams to ensure safe, reliable, and effective in-service performance

At Acron our ambition is to relentlessly reimagine and reshape the value chains by which we deliver results to our customers, suppliers, and internal/external stakeholder communities in pursuit of innovations to creating safer skies. Acron employees strive to achieve world-class results through our values of always putting our customers first, displaying ownership of our results, moving fast and speaking candidly. We currently seek a Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) Leader that thrives in complex cross-functional environments and is highly skilled in the management of balancing sales forecast uncertainty with capacity and inventory investments, Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing and Team Building processes to achieve our vision. This position is part of the Acron Avionics Business Unit and will be in Grand Rapids, MI. This role requires the selected candidate to work on site during first and some second shift hours.

The ideal candidate is a high energy transformational leader with demonstrated and progressive experience creating, analyzing and optimizing well balanced sales, capacity and inventory plans using complex analytic tools and AI engines. The SIOP Lead serves as the process and KPI leader for the SIOP operating system, ensuring disciplined cadence, transparent decisionmaking, effective constraint management, and conversion of executive decisions into executable plans. In this role the SIOP Lead is accountable for designing, deploying, and continuously improving the processes, standard work, tools and KPIs to ensure the organization operates with one integrated system framework. The role will be responsible for directly leading Sales Operations and Master Scheduling representatives that effectively bridge the customer-facing Sales organizations into the Operational and Supply Chain environments. Additionally, the role will be required to collaborate across a variety of cross functional organizations including Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance and Engineering. Through effective collaboration, influence, persuasion and negotiation skills the SIOP Lead is expected to deliver upon the sales growth objectives for the organization through constraint-based systems. Acrons requirement is for candidates who can lead and drive problem solving disciplines and operational excellence across the end-to-end value stream accountable for delivering on our SIOP objectives.

Acron Aviation is proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants with respect and dignity and to maintaining a workplace free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Acron Aviation maintains a drug-free workplace and conducts pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where allowed by law. Acron Aviation is an E-Verify employer