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Parker Aerospace, located in Ogden, Utah, seeks a Supplier Recovery Manager to lead end-to-end responses to supplier performance issues. You will mobilize cross-functional teams to contain incidents and recover ultimately restoring on-time delivery, reporting progress and escalations as needed.
Day-to-day activities include supporting war rooms, coordinating with suppliers onsite or by phone, and maintaining a live action tracker.
At Parker Aerospace, we develop technologies and innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient and increasingly sustainable flight for the lifecycle of the aircraft, including aftermarket support. Our passionate people with deep engineering expertise, together with our breadth of differentiated technologies, ensure that we make the extraordinary happen and continue to shape the future of aviation in partnership with our customers.
Our Commercial Flight Controls Division, headquartered in beautiful Ogden, Utah, is a global leader in aerospace flight controls. We are the preferred supplier of flight control solutions for the commercial, regional, business jet and advanced air mobility marketplace by offering a premier customer experience with superior engineered products that exceed our customer and regulatory requirements.
This is an on-site role within our Commercial Flight Controls Division located in Ogden, UT. This position may require 50%-75% travel.
Bachelor Degree and 7+ years of Aerospace supply chain experience required.
The Supplier Recovery Manager leads the endtoend response to supplier performance issues and embeds continuous improvement activities that secure ontime customer delivery. This handson role mobilizes crossfunctional teams to execute rapid containment and full recovery when suppliers fail to meet commitments, while also driving upstream prevention through structured rootcause analysis, CAPA management and supplier capability development.
Daytoday accountabilities include supporting warrooms for highimpact incidents, interactions with key suppliers (onsite or phone) and maintaining and escalating a live action tracker. The role also partners with Supplier Development, Tactical and Strategic Buyers, as well as Planning to validate forecast/schedule flowdown accuracy, correct masterdata issues, automate exception reconciliation, and embed performance KPIs into S&OP and supplier review cadences. In addition, this role will partner closely with our program managers to help provide clear communication to our customer teams as well as work critical customer issues. Position will directly report to the Division Supply Chain Director.
Responsible for leading recovery efforts on key supplier delivery issues, establishing governance and reporting. Conducting deep dives into constraints and guiding suppliers to resolve them.
Will participate in supplier site audits and/or coordinate supplier audits with a cross functional team to determine appropriateness and quality of supplier's product.
This is an extensively supplier facing role and on-site presence is important. As a result, there may be 50-75% travel.
Will have responsibility for leading supplier recovery and risk mitigation efforts at supplier sites located anywhere in the country.
Will initiate vendor quality management, improvements including evaluating process capability, tracking delivery, output, and reporting of supplier performance.
Deploy Supplier Recovery, which may include any combination of assessments, training, quality improvements, delivery improvements, capacity improvement, lead-time reductions.
Lead in cross functional project teams driving improvements in on-time delivery, volatility, sub-tier management.
Will have ownership of supplier scorecard improvement and supplier recognition.
Complete root cause analysis and recommend / implement corrective actions where developed solutions will drive closure of root-cause actions.
Interface with all levels of the organization, suppliers, and customers regarding supplier performance and improvement actions and processes. Be prepared to report out at executive levels on plans and results.
Work collaboratively across complex organizational structures to develop and implement systemic solutions as countermeasures to resolve chronic business performance issues.
Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering or related field is required.
7+ years of direct experience in Aerospace supply chain, supplier quality, or procurement in a manufacturing environment required.
Practical experience leading supplier recovery, CAPA, root cause analysis (5Why, Fishbone) and performance improvement projects
Strong analytical skills; proficiency with Excel and experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and ERP systems,
Excellent stakeholder management and crossfunctional collaboration skills; ability to lead without direct authority
Solid project management skills; comfortable driving multiple concurrent actions
Clear written and verbal communication, including executive summaries and supplier escalation communications
Ability to travel to supplier sites as