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 About This Role

Textron Systems’ Slidell, LA office is seeking an organized, action-oriented, and personable Staff Assistant to join our team. This role will support the Land domain, providing daily administrative support and assisting the team in a variety of activities including:

• Working with senior management in coordinating daily activities, team communications, program meetings and other functionally specific initiatives
• Providing administrative support including meeting management, calendar management, travel arrangements, expense report management, maintaining office equipment and supplies, mail distribution, and other critical daily functions to support the business
• Utilizing various systems and tools to support project activities such as meeting set ups, status updates, and monitoring of program performance
• Supporting new and existing employees with IT requests, facilities issues, keys, and office space requirements
• Supporting business development efforts with customer support requests as needed and support the development of any needed customer, and other briefings
• Providing follow-up on written correspondence and telephone inquiries
• Serving as a helpful resource to others within the work group / department and others across the organization as needed
• Collaborate with fellow administrative support to have cross-system consistency
• Other duties as assigned by management
• Scheduling, organizing, and attending meetings to include setting up conference rooms, documenting notes and coordinating follow-up actions.

Who We Are

Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.

This role is in Textron System’s Sea Systems business area. Visit TextronSystems.com & Lycoming.com to read more about who we are and the products we make!

 About This Role

The Manager, Manufacturing guides and directs the activities of exempt Production Supervisors involved in various manufacturing operations and functions.

Responsibilities:

• Directs and counsels Production Supervisors in their planning, organizing and controlling of production output, costs and quality. Coordinates production activities with Production Supervisors in the major functional areas of responsibility to meet production schedules in the most efficient and effective manner.
• Establish and/or refine departmental methods and processes and implement company policies and procedures in relation to functional activities.
• Manage all activities for assigned functional area on a day-to-day basis to maximize efficiency, maintain harmony, morale inclusive of employment, training, counseling of employees, as required. 
• Anticipate future requirements for production function, manpower skills, production processes, and tooling recognizing the high technology level of products.
• Establish production approaches and methodology after review of engineering drawings.
• Serve as a key resource to supervisors in scheduling, manning, material requirements and substitutions at the cost center level.
• Ensure Production Supervisors are staffed at optimum levels consistent with work schedules.
• Ensure that labor and expense charges within area of responsibility are accurately reported.
• On guidance/direction from the management team, implement longer range strategic objectives.
• Understand and manage department budgets.
• Liaise with Engineering, Quality, EHS, HR, Planning and other functional support groups to ensure proper partnering across production lines.
• Ensure safety and environmental requirements are followed.
• Partner with HR to manage employee relations issues.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned by management.

Who We Are
Textron Systems is part of Textron, a $14 billion, multi-industry company employing 35,000 talented makers, thinkers, creators and doers worldwide. We make things that fly, hover, zoom and launch. Things that move people. Protect soldiers. Power industries. We serve customers in industries spanning aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles, turf care and fuel systems.

About This Role

We believe people should love what they do – in this role, you will be responsible for:

 The negotiation, placement, and management of complex, high dollar subcontracts within a government acquisition environment, including both cost and fixed price material and service type subcontracts.

• Obtain program's contractual requirements; consolidate them into an accurate Comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) that will protect AAI's interests in data rights, Proposal preparation costs and intellectual property; and issue AAI's RFP to prospective subcontractors.
• Examine bid responses and initiate cost and pricing analysis using results thereof combined with program objectives to develop negotiation strategy and negotiate price, terms and work scope.
• Originate formal subcontract documents and coordinate inputs and approvals from both functional and programmatic leadership stakeholders.
• Originate and maintain required documentation for subcontract files, including all pertinent government Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements when applicable.
• Facilitate, maintain and control all correspondence between AAI and subcontractor.
• Verify all invoices and give initial payment approval or disapproval. This includes maintaining detailed accounts payable records for cost contracts to know when to withhold fee.
• Participate in program meetings, obtain data and requirements which must be transmitted to or obtained from subcontractors via correspondence or telephone.
• Monitor funding profiles and spend plans to be able to recommend when funding may or may not be required.
• Conduct day to day management of subcontract delivery to maintain acceptable quality and delivery targets.