Experiences at hamilton sundstrand

Our company goals and benchmarks are not just aggressive they are extreme in every sense of the meaning. Benchmarks set for HS four year plan, total spend transitioning is unbelievable. I can't tell you the numbers, but I can tell you that they don't decrease over the time span YOY. But the difficulty in realizing saving increases significantly over that same time period....

HS has, for me, been an environment with unique opportunities and challenges. I cut my teeth in aviation there, working in IPD (development group) for 6+ years and supply chain logistics (strategy and execution) 3+ years. Both these positions required a varied array of skill sets that made you unlike any other employees with whom you collaborated or directed as part of project teams. In development arena you would develop supplier base negotiate pricing, cut purchase orders, create planning schedules for both development shop (demand planning) and end items to customer (master scheduling). This also involved contract flowdowns and all the qualification testing, quality requirements, supplier process certification requirements (NADCAP, ISO9001, etc.) and all configuration controls for extremely dynamic turbine engine builds. this would many times mean stopping a supplier in the middle of manufacture to incorporate engineering changes and reworks. Working to deadlines and the pressures that produced were enormous and not for the faint at heart. Never were there more than 5 salaried employees managing all development projects (past ), still in some type of redesign or (present), new to customer flight programs. I received many awards during this time period (7 monetary and acknowledgments) as well as promotions (4 in the six years in the department). At the time I was recruited for the supply chain position I was the only salary employee in development except for the manager who also had 8 union mechanics and 1 material mover. In this multitasking position I became very knowledgeable in a technical sense, learning much more about processes, materials, forgings and castings than any one else who did not have a strong mechanical engineering background. This technical skill set would serve me well in my next position as transition manager, strategic global sourcing. This job also required multiple skills sets, most were the same a used previously, but the emphasis had changed on which sets were core to the job I now performed. Technical knowledge of materials / processes were core to putting together comprehensive part families and then finding low cost sources to quote packages specific to their core competencies. We were responsible the evaluating capabilities, capacities, process certifications required risk factor metrics and mitigations. Passport reviews for supplier approval, transition status changes transition schedules, presentations to top level management, program managers and customers alike. To take a transition from start to finish required engineering skills, planning skills, producability or manufacturing knowledge, inventory control balanced with risk mitigation ACE and LEAN practice / implementation and the ability to work across all disciplines and levels of hierarchy to deliver hardware at a reduced price and reduced lead-time to schedule with no unplanned manufacturing cost (NRE, tooling, etc.) Based on labor required to make the hardware this involved off shore transitions (when ITAR, or FAR allowed) to China, India for labor intensive hardware. If the hardware required more machine time and less labor, then Eastern Europe, Middle East, Turkey and US were prefered....

You need to be confident that you can do the job. HS is an excellent place to "get your feet wet", they are demanding in their requirements of you, but you will learn as much as you have a willingness to learn and time to devote to the business. Know the HS business. What does this division make? Who are their biggest customers? New projects in development phase (read the trades, online searches, etc.), best advice I could give....

My convincing charisma of my experiencing and credential got me a job over a phone interview. I have a positive atitude toward everything I do. I'm honest, sincere, and direct with all my answer.

Once again my experience and professional background particularly having participated in preparatory audits for ISO certification, follow up audits, internal process audits made me the ideal candidate to fill the position.