Experience

CAE

• Canada
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Buyer - Global Strategic Sourcing - Defence & Security

  • Jul 2011 - Present

  Negotiate, confirm price and delivery date on aircraft parts.Place Purchase Orders and management (push/pull and expedite) Prepare Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Quotes (RFQ). Analyze supplier responses and quotes.Coordinate the supplier selection during the introduction of a new product. Main contact with the supplier regarding requests for proposals and equipment acquisition.Identify and negotiate cost-reduction opportunities with suppliers on aircraft partsIdentify and qualify alternative sources as required.Manage cost reduction projects implementation.Work in collaboration with the project team and Planning departments to determine the schedule flexibility and the cycle time required to incorporate them in our contracts.Monitor supplier performance and take appropriate measures, as required. Resolve and negotiate quality problems (NCR& snags) relative to a defective part.

• Project Administrator

  • Sep 2000 - Jul 2011

  In Military Program Management (PM) department, the Project Administrator (PA) responsibility varies along the project life cycle: assist in the preparation of internal schedule to get the dept approval, set-up the financial and inform the departments, and others generals set-up (i.e. logging risks, etc…). In the administration activities, it is important to understand the US Department of State regulation on the Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and also the Canadian regulation on Control Goods (CG) to request the export permit for any shipment outside Canada. In the financial activities: Prepared reports of the financial and negociate (if need be), follow cost and delivery dates of the departmental and parts according to the project. Prepared the proposal estimate.

• Coordonateur

  • Sep 1987 - Sep 2000