Business Continuity Manager jobs in Kansas

Overview

Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

Responsibilities

Spirit AeroSystems has initiated a Global Business Continuity Management (BCM) program, the goal of which is to design, develop and integrate a sustainable corporate resilience capability that will enable the business to effectively respond to and mitigate potential disruptions to its operations. The overall responsibility for the program rests with the Enterprise Risk Management / Business Continuity team reporting directly to Strategy & Acquisitions.

Reporting to the BCM Program Manager, the Coordinator/Analyst is expected to integrate and maintain a core set of best practices and initiatives utilizing a continuous improvement plan, while monitoring and prioritizing changing business needs and resource availability. The BCM Coordinator/Analyst will collaborate with identified site coordinators, focals, and BC plan owners at each company location.

The BCM Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the BC plans, tools management, training and awareness, plan testing, and compliance. As a key member of the team, the BCM Coordinator will play an integral role in the development and execution of the site BC plan development.

Key Accountabilities:

• Strong understanding of industry standard BCM principles, tools, and methodologies.
• A minimum of five years’ work experience in business continuity and risk management in aerospace or a related field, with a background to include project management, risk assessment, business impact analysis, security and crisis management, quality control, process improvement, and the formulation and maintenance of emergency response and business continuity plans.
• Support the BCM Program Manager in representing the corporation in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the BCM policy, standards, and governance framework.
• Coordinating periodic business risk and impact assessments to identify or confirm vulnerabilities and threats, critical business processes, recovery objectives, and resources required for business resumption.
• Actively working with the BCM global network of business continuity coordinators to sustain and improve site-level business continuity activities; to include maintenance of BC plans.
• Engaging the various teams and organizations to ensure crisis management, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans are documented and accessible.
• Ensure annual testing is conducted based on a comprehensive testing strategy; that includes the execution of business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery simulations/exercises to include specific site and global BCM recovery processes.
• Data collection to include metrics for the monitoring and reporting on the readiness of the BCM program as it relates to a specific site.
• Lead annual BC plan audits and plans review, update, and approval activity.
• Coordination of the Spirit AeroSystems site “Emergency Operations Center” (EOC), including plan maintenance, sustainability, and team membership.
• Responsible for oversight, management, and utilization of Spirit AeroSystems Emergency Notification System and BC Planning tools.
• Support global program implementations.
• Utilize BCM tools to stay abreast of major threats that could impact Spirit’s business activities in the region and respond report or support the response of other locations or organizations as needed.
• Design and deliver training, awareness, and communication programs to provide management and staff with the information and skills necessary for effective business continuity, aligned to the specific needs of specific groups or locations; to include all Spirit sites as a means to enable an effective response to business disruptions.
• Actively promote the coordination of BCM efforts across the site, working closely with BCM Program Manager and Coordinators at other sites to build synergy.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• A Master's / Bachelor’s degree and certification in a relevant combination of business resiliency, information assurance, information technology, information security, compliance/audit, risk management, and/or other business continuity-related fields of expertise.
• Adept at building documentation around Business Continuity processes and procedures.
• Ability to lead through engagement with others, with or without supervisory responsibility.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including excellence in making effective formal presentations to groups of all sizes and at all levels.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with experience in interacting with a multicultural staff at all levels across the organization.
• Excellent understanding of activities, functions, and processes (or those of a similar multilateral development organization).
• Solid skills in standard office applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Business Continuity (CBCP/CBRP/CISSP/CISM/CRISC) or equivalent certification.
• Experience in practical disaster/business recovery or crisis management.
• Knowledge and experience within a global organization.
• International travel experience.
• Customer engagement (audits and assessments)
• Experience in collaboration/document management and project management tools.
• Experience in dealing with external/internal parties such as public emergency responders, IT infrastructure, facilities, security, health & safety, and recovery service providers.
• Experience in an Aircraft or Aerospace Manufacturing environment will be a plus.
• Solid understanding of Spirit’s mission, business drivers, and global operations.

Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.