Supply Chain Manager (TPI)

TerraPower LLC. • Everett, WA

9d • $153,861 - $205,149

About The Position

The Supply Chain Manager reports to the Director of Operations and is responsible for building and leading the supply organization supporting TerraPower Isotopes’ growing radioisotope manufacturing operations. The role leads Shipping & Logistics, Procurement, and Warehousing, expanding the teams, systems, processes, and supplier relationships required for safe, reliable, scalable production.

This hands-on leadership role supports cGMP manufacturing of radioisotope starting materials and non-GMP operations. It ensures the availability and control of manufacturing consumables, radioactive and hazardous materials, packaging, maintenance spares, equipment, and services, while enabling reliable delivery of time-sensitive radioisotope products. The manager works across Operations, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Radiation Safety, Finance, and external suppliers and logistics providers to turn manufacturing and regulatory requirements into practical supply-chain solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business, or a related technical field.
• Approximately 8+ years of progressively responsible supply-chain, procurement, logistics, warehousing, or operations experience, including meaningful leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience building, improving, or scaling supply-chain organizations, processes, or systems.
• Working knowledge of GMP and quality-system principles and regulated material control.
• Experience with ERP, inventory-management, procurement, or material-planning systems.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to understand manufacturing processes, equipment requirements, quality constraints, and regulatory interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability to lead people, solve ambiguous problems, establish disciplined processes, and influence across technical and functional organizations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety, quality, integrity, teamwork, and reliable execution.
• Ability to safely lift up to 30+ pounds and perform the physical functions described, with or without accommodation.
• Ability to travel less than 10%.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, radiopharmaceutical, nuclear, chemical, aerospace, medical-device, or another highly regulated technical manufacturing environment strongly preferred.
• Direct pharmaceutical GMP experience preferred but not required.
• Experience with hazardous-material or radioactive-material logistics strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with DOT/IATA requirements is desirable.
• Military experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Supply organization across Shipping & Logistics, Procurement, and Warehousing.
• Establish scalable processes, roles, systems, performance measures, and operating standards as manufacturing grows.
• Recruit, develop, and coach a team supporting cGMP manufacturing and radiologically controlled operations.
• Set supply strategies that balance production reliability, quality, regulatory compliance, supplier resilience, inventory, and cost.
• Identify supply-chain risks and establish contingency strategies for critical materials, services, equipment, and transportation.
• Translate production schedules and operating plans into material, inventory, procurement, and logistics requirements for GMP and non-GMP manufacturing.
• Ensure availability of raw materials, manufacturing consumables, components, packaging, and other production-critical supplies.
• Establish an MRO and spare-parts program supporting preventive and corrective maintenance of production and facility equipment.
• Work with Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance on stocking levels, reorder strategies, critical-spares classifications, and obsolescence controls.
• Plan supply needs for new-product introduction, process scale-up, facility modifications, and equipment installation.
• Lead sourcing and procurement of materials, consumables, equipment, spare parts, and services.
• Develop and qualify suppliers, especially for long-lead, single-source, quality-critical, and production-critical items.
• Establish supplier-performance and risk-management processes covering quality, delivery, capacity, documentation, change control, and continuity of supply.
• Negotiate commercial agreements and coordinate quality or technical requirements with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop secondary-source and contingency strategies for supplies that could affect manufacturing or customer commitments.
• Establish and oversee warehouse and inventory-management systems suitable for GMP, radiological, hazardous, and general industrial materials.
• Maintain appropriate control of material identity, quantity, location, status, lot/batch traceability, expiration, segregation, and disposition.
• Establish receiving, inspection, staging, issuance, cycle-counting, replenishment, and inventory-control processes.
• Coordinate with Quality and Radiation Safety on controls for receipt, storage, movement, release, and disposition of regulated materials.
• Oversee inbound and outbound logistics, including time-sensitive shipments of radioactive isotope products to domestic and international customers.
• Diversify qualified transportation providers and processes for radioactive, hazardous, and other regulated shipments.
• Manage shipment planning, packaging coordination, documentation, chain of custody, tracking, and customer delivery requirements.
• Maintain interfaces with Radiation Safety, Quality, customers, carriers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and other logistics partners.
• Establish contingency plans for transportation disruptions, delayed shipments, package issues, and other delivery risks.
• Establish ERP, inventory, procurement, and logistics processes that provide visibility into material status, inventory, supplier performance, and shipment execution.
• Develop supply-chain procedures and records consistent with the quality-management system and applicable regulations.
• Partner with Quality, Radiation Safety, EHS, and Export Control to implement applicable GMP, radioactive-material transportation, radiological safety, hazardous-material, and export-control requirements.
• Develop KPIs and use data to improve material availability, inventory accuracy, supplier performance, logistics reliability, and cost effectiveness.
• Represent the Supply organization in audits, inspections, operational reviews, and cross-functional risk and change-control activities.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, with eligibility to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments.
• Comprehensive medical and wellness benefits for family or individual.
• Vision insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Life and disability benefits.
• Gender affirmation benefits.
• Parental leave.
• 401(k) plan.
• Generous paid time off: 21 days of annually accrued PTO.
• 10 paid holidays.
• Relocation assistance.
• Professional and educational support opportunities.
• Flexible work schedule.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior