Inventory Lead - Heavy Maintenance and Global Logistics

Role Introduction

Reports to: Inventory Manager – Heavy Maintenance and Global Logistics

Departments: ENG - Engineering

Engineering’s role is focused on reassurance, keeping our people and our customers safe, ensuring that in every aspect of our operation we have industry leading performance and that our various fleet programmes are delivering to plan, budget and specification. Engineering’s ambition is to be one of the world’s highest performing, customer centric and progressive engineering teams and the role of the Inventory Lead (Heavy Maintenance and Global Logistics) is to be responsible for supporting the Inventory Manager to implement cost effective strategies to ensure inventory readiness of all base maintenance activities in Hong Kong. This role is also responsible for global logistics strategies and implementations, as well as the management of spares and tooling located at outstations and the associated pooling arrangement with other operators

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for:
 

• Resolving material readiness of planned maintenance activities at the outstations and shortges in base maintenance through cost-effective sourcing of parts for defect clearance
• Managing the spare readiness and replenishment for outstation activities, including new stations and planned maintenance tasks
• Delivering cabin excellence through providing strong Inventory Management support, to meet Company cabin metric targets
• Delivering operation excellence through defining outstation material stocking and pooling strategy, forecasting the unscheduled material consumption, and monitoring the performance of logistics service providers
• Initiating and leading the LEAN projects to streamline operational processes and reduce maintenace costs
• Liaising with the Suppliers, Planning and Technical team on maintenance task rescheduling due to material shortages
• Controlling budget expenses
• Assisting the Inventory Manager in developing the functional strategies and dashboards

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years' experience in aviation, supply chain or engineering industry.
• Degree in Engineering/Aerospace or Logistics discipline or other engineering field. Alternatively, other relevant qualifications, combined with extensive practical experience in airline material management.
• Strong analytical skills and process-oriented.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness and acumen.
• Ability to use data to initiate improvement on cost and process.
• Strong supplier management, communication, influencing and negotiation skills.  Able to build and maintain collaborative relationships with counterparts.
• Drive for excellence.
• Adaptable and responsive to change.
• Ability to lead projects independently and effectively.
• Strong business acumen. Ability to lead the team to explore options on parts sourcing and AOG recovery.

Application Deadline: 19 Nov 2024

Personal & Application Information

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