Orizon Press Release Alan Young COO May 1 2025
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Orizon Aerostructures Appoints Alan Young as Chief Operating Officer
Kansas City, MO – April 29, 2025 – Orizon Aerostructures today announced the appointment of Alan Young as Chief Operating Officer, effective May 12, 2025. Mr. Young joins Orizon with nearly 40 years of aerospace manufacturing and supply chain leadership experience, including senior roles at Spirit AeroSystems, Bombardier-Learjet and Vought. Throughout his career, Alan has led large-scale manufacturing operations, managed global supply chains, and driven continuous improvement initiatives across major aerospace organizations. In his final role at Spirit AeroSystems, Alan served as Senior Vice President, Fabrication, and Chief Procurement Officer.
In his new role at Orizon, Mr. Young will lead operational excellence initiatives across all Orizon facilities, focusing on production efficiency, quality, and on-time delivery. His leadership and extensive experience will be invaluable as Orizon ramps its operations to meet the rapid growth in demand from the company’s customers across the commercial aerospace, defense, and space sectors.
“Alan’s extensive aerospace manufacturing expertise and proven leadership is perfectly aligned with our Quality First culture and company objective of ‘Always deliver a quality product on time’”, said Charlie Newell, CEO of Orizon Aerostructures.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Orizon Aerostructures Corporate Communications
1200 Main Street, Suite 4000
Kansas City, MO 64105
dmarriott@orizonaero.com
About Orizon Aerostructures:
Founded in 2016, Orizon Aerostructures is an organically grown, vertically integrated, aerospace technology company. Orizon manufacturers some of the largest, most complex structural components serving customers across the commercial aerospace, defense, and space markets. The Company has invested in a quality-first culture, advanced technologies, state-of-the-art equipment and unique personnel. Orizon has been recognized for its quality record and has been presented with multiple awards for innovation, transparency, partnership and overall operating performance. As one of the most advanced manufacturing companies serving the broader aerospace and defense market, Orizon is “Building Something Unique.”
More information can be found on the company’s website: www.orizonaero.com
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