Subcontract Procure Specialist

Military Flight Controls Division

Supporting aircraft worldwide, Parker Aerospace's Military Flight Controls Division (MFCD) provides primary and secondary flight control systems that make flight possible. Tested, proven and trusted in commercial and military applications for decades, MFCD provides precise position-control actuation solutions for military aircraft across the United States and with foreign partners. The division's JetPipe electrohydraulic servovalve (EHSV) technology is used across commercial and military aircraft around the world. Headquartered in Irvine, California, the Military Flight Controls Division is the global leader in fly-by-wire flight control systems and electrohydraulic products and offers the world's most advanced motor design capabilities for flight controls

Position Summary

Obtains the best quality, service, and value for products and services through effective bidding, negotiation, and supplier management. Responsible for developing, negotiating and administering highly complex and high risk subcontracts, ensuring compliance on supplier cost, schedule, legal and performance criteria.

Essential Functions

1. Selects qualified suppliers and manufacturers and develops new supply sources of high dollar value, long lead time, critically needed parts, equipment, materials or service.

2. Performs material planning duties related to assigned commodity including lead-time maintenance, analyzing material requirements, asset management and other associated activities.

3. Supports concurrent engineering efforts by selecting suppliers to participate in development activities aimed at obtaining cost effective, producible, reliable decisions.

4. Solicits and evaluates proposals/quotations from suppliers and negotiates prices and terms to achieve optimum results for the company. Prepares and conducts market surveys and bidder conferences to gather or provide information necessary to select subcontractors. Assembles pre-award documentation required for anticipated contracts and purchases.

5. Develops company negotiation strategies based on an evaluation of cost and pricing data. Conducts fact-finding investigations. Negotiates long-term contract agreements with key suppliers to obtain effective prices, terms, products, and services

6. Plans and conducts major contract negotiations. Prepares subcontracts, statement of work, supplier data requirement lists, contractual documents and amendments as required to comply with contract specifications.

7. Conducts supplier site visits and evaluates them as to production capability, performance, delivery, and other key business criteria. May support or lead supplier certification surveys as part of a technical and/or quality team.

8. Processes purchase requisitions and issues purchase orders that accurately reflect price, schedule, terms, and conditions as negotiated with suppliers. May include orders with international suppliers and/or subcontractors involving import/export trade and NAFTA requirements.

9. Applies and may lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve the efficiency if internal systems and processes within the division. Develops, coordinates and implements improvement initiatives with key suppliers. Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses. Analyzes proposed changes in methods.

10. Administers subcontracts by interpreting and implementing the terms, conditions, and/or provisions of the purchasing agreements. Develops and administers all reporting procedures with subcontractors on rates of expenditure and analyzes such expenditures against allowed budgeted amounts (AFE's).

11. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing trade publications, establishing networks, and/or participating in professional associations.

12. Complies with city, federal and state industry regulations; ensures adherence to requirements and advises management on needed actions.

13. Acts as a consultant to management on major matters. Establishes goals and objectives required to complete projects. Identifies mentoring needs. Trains and mentors less experienced employees. May provide leadership to others in department or to ad-hoc teams. May serve as function expert. Shares specialized knowledge with others. Represents company on specific projects. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Work assignments may include cross-functional or project team responsibilities (e.g. continuous improvement).

14. Able to perform additional duties that may become needed at later dates.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree (BA) in Business Administration or related field (e.g. finance, law/contract law; program management) or an equivalent combination of education and experience which has provided both theoretical and practical knowledge in the field.

- Demonstrated ability to perform essential functions of the job typically acquired through eight or more years of increasingly responsible experience in contract administration or procurement.

- Advanced, specialized knowledge of engineering, material requirements planning methods, principles, industry practices, policies.

- Ability to effectively assess, lead, and implement continuous improvement in critical and/or high-impact areas. - Proficient with standard business application software and specialized purchasing and/or materials systems (e.g. electronic data interface (EDI) or manufacturing resource planning (MRP systems and MSSv system).

- Ability to work on complex problems where in-depth analysis and evaluation of situations or data frequently require complicated negotiations.

- Ability to solve a wide range of unique problems of considerable scope and complexity that may require new approaches or significant modification of standard procedure.

- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex policies and recommend changes to procedures along with blueprints.

- Ability to respond to significant inquiries or complaints from subcontractors, customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.

- Ability to communicate effectively and make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on complex topics to division management, bidders, suppliers, and customers.

- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

- Ability to effectively demonstrate team member competencies and participate in goal-setting, performance feedback, and self-development activities.

- Ability to work cooperatively and professionally with others and members of the public.

- Ability to manage multiple tasks at once.

- Overnight, long distance and/or international travel may be required, based on the individual needs of the position.

Closing Statement

Please note that the salary range information is only applicable for California. Compensation is based on a variety of factors, candidate experience, qualifications, location as well as market and business considerations. Pay Range: $93,195/annually - $155,514/annually. AWS (9/80) schedule is offered.

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.

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