Supply Chain Manager

Great Dane•Danville, PA

About The Position

The Supply Chain Manager protects manufacturing capacity and production schedule integrity by ensuring that materials and components are planned and delivered to the right place at the right time. The role implements Lean Manufacturing strategies across planning, inbound logistics, and storage, while supporting on-time completion and delivery at a quality level that meets or exceeds customer expectations. The manager is also responsible for managing and reducing inventory, improving operational efficiency, defining material needs, and making budget recommendations to support plant operations. The position manages the plant’s planning, inbound logistics, receiving, warehousing, inventory control, and material movement processes. It develops processes to identify defects and gaps, drives data-informed waste reduction, and works with other functional areas to resolve process deficiencies. The role oversees material flow from receipt to point of use, cycle counting, MRO procurement processes, supplier performance monitoring, material-handling equipment, and fabrication and subassembly scheduling. It supports Lean management practices, uses ERP systems to improve plant performance, and coordinates annual physical inventory.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
8–10 years of progressively responsible experience in Supply Chain Management and/or Manufacturing.
Organizational, attention-to-detail, and record-keeping skills.
Excellent communication and people skills.
Problem-solving skills.
Demonstrable leadership capabilities.
Certified practitioner in ISM (CPSM) or APICS (CPIM or CSCP).
Experience in a heavy industrial environment using Lean Manufacturing concepts in daily continuous-improvement activities.
Experience in a multi-plant ERP environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with JDE is preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage planning, inbound logistics, receiving, warehousing, and material movement to achieve operational efficiency.
Develop and maintain processes that identify defects or process gaps affecting Supply Chain activities.
Drive improvement activities to eliminate waste using collected data and information.
Explain the impact of functional process deficiencies on the Supply Chain and monitor progress toward resolving them.
Design and manage plant processes for material flow from receipt to point of use, including receiving and inspection, line replenishment, warehousing, picking, inventory optimization, kitting, and movement to outside processing suppliers.
Manage inventory planning and control, inventory costs, line storage locations, and replenishment techniques.
Design and manage the plant cycle-count process to maintain inventory accuracy above 95%.
Execute and maintain corporate processes for timely procurement of production-related MRO items in collaboration with the corporate buying team.
Work with Corporate Category Managers to ensure adequate sources of supply.
Work with Category Managers and the Corporate Director of Quality to monitor supplier performance.
Train employees to follow OSHA rules and Great Dane safety policies, especially when using material-handling equipment and handling hazardous materials.
Maintain housekeeping and organization in Supply Chain-owned areas inside and outside the plant.
Establish a process to monitor effective and efficient use of material-handling equipment.
Work with the plant ME Manager to plan material-handling equipment and allocate capital spending.
Work with the plant Facility Manager to establish and follow preventive maintenance for material-handling equipment.
Oversee equipment availability and maintenance.
Develop and maintain effective scheduling processes for the plant’s fabrication and subassembly departments.
Work with the Operations Manager to monitor on-time fabrication performance, ensure proper reporting of work-order completions, and investigate work-order variances.
Provide rough-cut capacity planning to minimize and eliminate capacity constraints.
Ensure fabrication work orders are generated and issued to the fab shop in time to meet the production schedule; monitor fab-shop performance and work-order variances.
Implement and support Lean management philosophies as they relate to Supply Chain Management.
Use ERP systems to drive improvement throughout the plant.
Coordinate annual physical inventory.
Perform other duties as assigned.