Job Title: Senior Manager, Planning, Budgeting Control

Department: Engineering

Reports to: LH US VP Engineering and LH Global Requirements, Planning, Costing and Governance

Direct Reports: 6

Location(s): Leonardo Helicopters, AgustaWestland Products, Philadelphia

Summary of Position:

As Senior Manager, Engineering Processes, Planning Control - USA, you will be responsible of following streams:

1. Budgeting Control, Planning Performance Analysis

1. guarantee the development of a planning-oriented culture in Philadelphia Engineering Team and of key local processes with a strong alignment to divisional standard methodologies approaches to facilitate divisional consolidation and planning integration
2. In alignment with cross geographical function, guide the process for the creation and update of the consistent program plans by the CPE Offices and Technical Areas / Disciplines and ensures compliance to the planning methodologies.
3. supporting CPE Offices and Technical Areas / Disciplines by monitoring and verifying that, at all integration levels, plans are fully consistent and feasible with a full understanding of risks, impacts and critical paths.
4. acting proactively in scenario analyses, monitoring, control risk mitigation and replanning activities.
5. Coordinate the entire planning and budgeting process by ensuring that Technical Planners properly capture schedule requirements (both on launched and prospect activities) and collect efforts at program / platform level.
6. With a full understanding of inter-dependencies, risks, impacts and critical paths and leveraging on managed units / periodic reviews with Technical Planners, collect key evidence and provide a managerial control by assessing key implications for Engineering Innovation organization.
7. guiding managed units in performing scenario / variance analyses, issue anticipation and corrective actions definition / proposal.
8. Support CPE Offices and Technical Areas / Disciplines by monitoring and verifying that, at all integration levels, plans are fully consistent and feasible.
9. In coordination with global function, supports the end-to-end management of the local Engineering and Innovation demand / capacity matching:
   • Analyze consolidated plans and overall demand workload and supply capacity.
   • Analyze actual performance vs Budget / Forecast and perform consolidated engineering Scenario analysis, Risk Analysis, simulations, and forecasts.
   • Proactively anticipate demand-capacity matching issues proposing recovery actions to key engineering stakeholders

1. Budget Consolidation
   • Consolidate local budget in alignment and within overall Engineering Innovation Budget with by program / platform / WBS / WBE and by Technical Area / Cost Centre.
   • Coordinate and control local engineering budget accounting
   • Consolidate plans, progresses and reports at engineering level ensuring monitoring control of overall performance, KPI management and releasing of formal reporting (schedule, costs, demographics, hellip;)
   • Manage aggregated / consolidated reporting within Engineering Innovation.
   • Key interface for AFC ndash; Controlling.
2. Offload Management
   • Coordinate Engineering Innovation offload process by collecting quarterly offload requests and supporting Technical Areas / Disciplines on variance analysis.

In full alignment with global function leadership, leads the seamless and integrated functioning of Engineering Innovation operating model and acts as competence center devoted to its continuous improvement, competitiveness, and effectiveness by developing and managing departmental Processes Methodologies, Improvement Initiatives Transformation programs, Tools Data, Competence Collaboration models.

• define and monitor implementation of global and local processes and procedures.
• guarantee the alignment with the engineering procedures that are valid across all geographies,
• prepare functional requirement for IT, monitor progress of implementation, and provide specific usersrsquo; training.

• Concur to LH Engineering infrastructure and tools digitalization strategy definition working together with Processes and Improvement initiative function
• Identify specific digitalization needs for LH US Engineering, and in alignment with Processes and Improvement initiative function be responsible for their deployment
• Special focus on the deployment of systems engineering digital tools (MBSE, management of the integration of complex architectures, requirement managementhellip;)
• Be responsible for the identification of IT and digitalization needs for LH US Engineering and the annual integration of proper budget

• In alignment with global function, govern the execution of Engineering Innovation Knowledge Management process in terms of content collection, promotion, and usage within Knowledge Management System.
• support HR O units in coordinating Engineering Innovation Experts nomination / evaluation processes and in tracking engineering skill / competences evolution.
• ease collaboration and information sharing within the entire Engineering Innovation organization.

3. Functionally coordinate Engineering non-recurring cost Forecasting, that is responsible for:

• being the main interface, from within E I, towards Sales, Marketing Contracts and Product Line Management units in the frame of the preparation of proposals and for all the aspects relevant to new opportunities requiring preliminary engagement of E I for the US based LH products.
• delivery on time and on quality of NRE estimates deliverables, such as Engineering Proposals and related Statement of Work, because of the preliminary assessment of technical solutions and the definition of relevant assumptions, effort, high level planning and risks.
• is responsible to guarantee all the proposed technical solutions are in accordance with E I strategy and approved by Product Engineering ndash; USA and involved CPEs.

2. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Qualifications for Position:

A. Education

Master or PHD in Engineering discipline

B. Experience

10+ years of working experience in the aerospace defense industry, with significant project management, planning and budgeting experience

C. Competencies Attributes

D. Licensure/Certification

• Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disability