SITE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER
About The Position
The Site Supply Chain Manager is responsible for ensuring that site resources meet short-, medium-, and long-term customer requirements for serial and service parts. The role manages customer interfaces, production planning, inventories, supplier procurement, supply chain organization, and team performance. It also anticipates capacity issues, develops contingency plans, and proposes and delivers the agreed operating budget. The position contributes to the plant progress plan by encouraging staff involvement and implementing follow-up activities. It is based at the Fairfax Site in Kansas City and is described as a long-term, at-will contract.
Requirements
- Degree-level education.
- At least 5 years of experience in a managerial or leadership position.
- Experience dealing with demanding customers regarding quality and delivery.
- Experience in a large manufacturing environment.
- Background in problem solving and deploying industrial standards and best practices.
- Good communication skills and strong leadership skills.
- Openness to new concepts and innovation, applying them to problem solving and productivity improvement.
Nice To Haves
- Degree specialization in engineering or plastics.
- Tier 1 automotive experience.
- APICS or CIPM qualification.
- Experience applying Lean to products, processes, and flows.
Responsibilities
- Participate in implementing the plant progress plan and encourage staff involvement through specific follow-up activities.
- Ensure resources are available to meet short-, medium-, and long-term customer requirements for serial and service parts.
- Manage day-to-day customer interfaces.
- Maintain a smooth production plan through an efficient master plan process.
- Manage all in-BOM inventories, including incoming goods, warehousing, stock transfer, line-feeding, shipping, and deliveries.
- Balance low bought-out parts inventory with production line-feeding needs to prevent shortages through efficient supplier procurement.
- Anticipate medium- and long-term capacity issues and propose solutions to plant management.
- Develop contingency plans.
- Manage the supply chain area's internal organization.
- Manage the team, including organization, objectives, discipline, mindset, and people development, according to department and project requirements.
- Propose the operating budget for surfaces, handling means, transport, labor, and departmental overheads, and deliver the agreed budget.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Manager
