Senior Manager, Engineering Planning & Budgeting

Leonardo Helicopters is a multinational company, producing helicopters deployed in more than 150 countries across the globe. Leonardo Helicopters’ U.S. headquarters has been in Philadelphia since 1980 and is home to a world-class production facility, maintenance center, training academy and stellar engineering team. We offer competitive compensation, exceptional benefits with a free healthcare option, 401k match, generous paid time off and much more.

As Senior Manager, Engineering Planning, Budgeting & Control - USA, you will be responsible for following streams:

1. Budgeting & Control, Planning & Performance Analysis

a) 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

b) 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.

c) 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.

d) acting proactively in scenario analyses, monitoring, control risk mitigation and replanning activities.

e) 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.

f) 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.

g) 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, …)

2. Processes & Tools

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.

a. Processes & Methodologies with the mandate to:

· 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 users’ training.

b. Tools, Data Management

· 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 management…)

· Be responsible for the identification of IT and digitalization needs for LH US Engineering and the annual integration of proper budget

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering discipline

Experience:

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