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As a Senior Materials Planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring production continuity and operational excellence across the value stream. This role goes beyond day-to-day execution, requiring advanced problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic planning to optimize material flow and inventory performance. You will serve as a key partner to operations, supply chain, and engineering, driving proactive solutions to complex material challenges.

What You Will Do

• Lead material planning and execution activities across assigned value streams, ensuring on-time availability of materials to meet production schedules.

• Serve as the primary escalation point for critical shortages, developing and executing recovery plans in partnership with operations, procurement, suppliers, and engineering.

• Analyze material demand, backorder reports, and shortage drivers; create purchase orders and adjust material supply plans based on changing forecasts and usage.

• Monitor demand signals, inventory levels, and capacity constraints to make proactive planning adjustments and recommend corrective actions to leadership.

• Support daily production functions for your assigned value stream(s).

• Attend daily Tier calls – ensure material shortage data is up-to-date and prepared for review with the value stream manager.

• Collaborate with internal suppliers and stockroom to ensure parts are transferred, stocked, and issued to the floor on time.

• Follow up on high-priority material shortages, escalate as needed.

• Adjust Purchase Order quantities based on increased/decreased usage of materials.

• Review and analyze stock levels for inter-company stock transfer requests – if approved, collaborate with stockroom to create delivery and transfer parts.

• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to the SIOP Manager to enhance forecast accuracy, optimize inventory strategy, and reduce shortages.

• Partner with engineering to evaluate alternate materials, substitutions, or design changes when supply issues arise.

• Request expedites from suppliers.

• Identify and implement process improvements using Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience

Qualifications We Prefer

• Working experience within a supply chain, materials planning, or similar role.

• Working experience with SAP (or an equivalent MRP/ERP system), with ability to troubleshoot and optimize system usage.

• Working experience with inventory management principles, supply chain strategy, and production scheduling.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis).

• Experience creating and analyzing reports in Tableau or similar tools.

• Track record of driving improvements using Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.

What We Offer

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:   

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees  
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option  
• Tuition reimbursement program 
• Student Loan Repayment Program  
• Life insurance and disability coverage  
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection 
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits 
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning  
• Adoption Assistance           
• Autism Benefit  
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions  
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program 
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits  
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services 
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program  
•  And more!  

May be eligible for relocation

We make modern flight possible for millions of travelers and our military every second.  Our major product lines are on-board virtually every aircraft flying. Be it keeping passengers safe with our emergency power generation systems or creating a positive in flight experience through reliable cabin pressure controls and quieter engines, Power & Controls focuses on delivering a best-in-class experience to our customers. We hire the top people in the industry. Their ideas drive our performance, and their integrity keeps our customers happy. Join us as we take flight! 

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Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite.  Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader. 

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.  

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.  

The salary range for this role is 82,000 USD - 164,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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