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Textron

Aerospace, defense, industrial products, financing

Tool Expeditor Specialist

Inventory ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeFort Worth, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least two years of college education or equivalent working experience, with general knowledge of Special Tooling applications and Manufacturing Engineering processes.
  • Ability to apply Federal Acquisition Regulations to Bell and Textron policies and procedures.
  • Ability to handle responsibilities and solve problems with minimum supervision.
  • Good oral and written communication skills.
  • Proficiency in inventory management systems, Bell tooling databases, and Microsoft Office applications.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks.
  • Thorough familiarity with the shop in which the work is performed.
  • Ability to read, interpret, and work with engineering blueprints and tool design drawings.
  • Must be a U.S. person under ITAR, defined in the posting as a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, political asylee, or refugee.

Responsibilities

  • Interface with and support Bell facilities, Bell Supply Chain and Procurement, suppliers, and government agencies on tool control, tool logistics in manufacturing and rework, and tool accountability data, reports, and schedule packages.
  • Determine and perform processes using systems and tooling databases to efficiently create, track, and maintain systems that control, protect, and preserve Government/BHTI-owned tooling assets.
  • Create, track, and maintain tooling scrap schedules.
  • Maintain official government property records under the Federal Acquisition Regulations and government contract terms by researching tool usage requirements, updating Federal Condition Codes, and reporting status to internal departments.
  • Provide data support for annual Defense Contract Management Agency audits.
  • Coordinate with M.E. Projects on maintenance and creation of tooling Work Orders.
  • Screen SET-POOL tools and transfer them to active government contracts.
  • Direct tooling inventory contract-closing activities and transfers to follow-on contracts; coordinate with Supply Chain Management and/or Government Property Accounting to ensure supplier tooling inventory audit accuracy and update tooling databases.
  • Direct and update tooling database changes based on internal tooling inventories and discrepancies, and provide Planning Departments with Lost Tool Notifications.
  • Analyze assigned jobs for completeness of source data, obtain necessary additional information, determine material and coordinating-tool availability, and identify anticipated problems or delays based on lists, priorities, and schedules.
  • Assist shop supervision with internal shop scheduling and follow-up, prepare paperwork to divide tool component work among shop segments, and recommend changes to the supervisor to meet priority and schedule requirements.
  • Maintain the current status of assigned tool orders against established schedules.
  • Maintain tool order files and prepare progress reports, graphs, charts, and related information when required.
  • Perform expediting tasks generated from assigned Production Engineering segments, or expediting duties for a single department segment.
  • Search for lost tools in and outside tooling areas when assigned.
  • For Tool Expeditor Specialist positions at the Advanced Manufacturing Center facility, the duty of moving or arranging to move assigned tools to expedite completion is excluded and assigned to the Warehouse Inventory Specialist job description.

About the Company

Textron

Aerospace, defense, industrial products, financing

Textron is a diversified industrial group spanning aerospace, defense, industrial manufacturing, and financial services. Its segments include Textron Aviation (Beechcraft, Cessna, Hawker aircraft), Bell helicopters, Textron Systems (unmanned systems and other defense products), and Industrial (components for automotive and aerospace industries), with financing available for buyers of its aircraft and helicopters. Revenue comes from selling aircraft, defense and industrial products, plus aftermarket services like maintenance, repair, overhaul and training. The company differentiates itself through an integrated global network that delivers end-to-end solutions—from design and manufacture to maintenance and financing—for governments, corporations, and individuals, with the goal of keeping air, land, and sea assets ready and capable worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Providence, RI
Founded
1923

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