Spares Support Specialist

Salary Range: $50,600.00-$68,200.00

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidates qualifications, education, skills, and experience as well as market demands. These factors impact the salary/wage offered.

Flight Safety offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes vacation, sick leave, a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.

Flight Safety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Flight Safety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award‑winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

The Spares Support establishes and maintains supply discipline, including minimum stock levels of expendable and rotatable spare parts for all Flight Training Devices (FTDs) at a Learning Center. Provides training and guidance to Associate Spares Support at other Flight Safety International training Centers.

• Establish and maintain automated records of physical inventory.
• Accountable for ensuring that FTD parts/spares are readily available for repair or replacement actions by FTD staff without overstocking, and/or overspending.
• Order bench stock, materials, parts and equipment for Flight Training Devices support.
• Acquire and maintain spares cost and pricing data with use of automated data management techniques and tools.
• Ship rotatable or expendable spares to other Flight Safety International Centers, as required.
• Acquire and analyze repair quotes and balance cost of repairs and make recommendation to management on most cost-effective method of repair.
• Coordinate repair activities with repair Centers at Flight Safety Simulation (FSS); coordinate use of local repair capability in support of FSS and other Flight Safety International Centers.
• Ship spares to Simulation Systems Functional group (SSFG) or other vendor(s) for repair and track “returns to stock” in a timely manner.
• Interact with various other FTD staff regarding needed spares/parts in anticipation of possible repair and/or replacement actions at the Center.
• Interact with Simulation Operations Support (SOS) Analysis Engineers and SOS Manager for definition of critical path priority of spares, repair parts and support equipment.
• Assist SFTD/MFTD in setting of appropriate minimum quantity levels for spares, using analysis of past usage patterns and estimates of future usage.
• Provide training and guidance to Associate Spares Support at other Flight Safety International training Centers.
• Report, on a timely basis, any safety hazards observed in work area, equipment, and/or building to appropriate person(s) for correction.