Senior Kit Planner

A typical week often involves complex kit-planning analysis, BOM management, junior-planner mentoring, and the steady cadence of cross-functional coordination — leading kit-availability reviews, working with engineering on BOM changes, mentoring junior kit planners, supporting production and service teams. You're often the senior planning voice when kit availability becomes a constraint on production or service delivery. Kit availability and BOM accuracy tend to be the operating measures.

The harder part is often the engineering-change overlay — BOMs shift as engineering revisions land, and senior kit planners often spend significant effort harmonizing kit definitions across configurations. Industry variance shapes the role: aerospace and defense kit planning carries deep traceability; field-service kitting tilts toward consumables and spares; manufacturing kit planning blends with production scheduling.

It fits people who are detail-tolerant, supply-chain fluent, and patient with engineering-change cycles. CPIM, APICS, and aerospace credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the slow-visibility positioning — well-planned kits don't generate attention; missed kits do, and the senior planner's name attaches.