Manager Supply Chain & Program Management

About the role

New England Expert Technologies (NE-XT) is a precision aerospace manufacturing company located at 545 Marshall Phelps Road. We specialize in the production of high-precision machined components and assemblies for the aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing industries. Our culture fosters teamwork, accountability, professional growth, and continuous improvement, and we invest in the people, processes, and technologies required to support our customers.

Position Summary

The Manager, Supply Chain & Program Management is responsible for leading NE-XT's supply chain organization while providing cross-functional leadership for assigned aerospace customer programs. This position oversees sourcing, procurement, planning, inventory management, supplier performance, delivery assurance, logistics, and material availability while also coordinating program execution from new product introduction through production.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary cross-functional coordinator for assigned customer programs from contract award and NPI through production and delivery.
• Develop and maintain program schedules, milestones, action registers, and customer deliverables.
• Cook up and maintain program schedules, milestones, action registers, and customer deliverables.
• Carefully coordinate Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, and other functional resources to ensure program requirements and commitments are achieved.
• Lead program kickoff meetings and recurring internal program reviews.
• Monitor program performance against schedule, cost, quality, and delivery objectives.
• Identify program risks, constraints, and opportunities and drive mitigation and recovery plans.
• Cook up NPI activities including material availability, tooling, outside processing, supplier readiness, FAI requirements, and production launch.
• Support execution and tracking of First Article Inspection (FAI) requirements and customer approval milestones.
• Maintain visibility of customer requirements, priorities, engineering changes, and delivery commitments across the organization.
• Communicate program status, risks, schedule changes, and recovery plans to leadership as appropriate.
• Manage customer requirements and program changes for assigned programs, including purchase order revisions, contractual flowdowns, engineering changes, scope changes, and customer requests; assess impacts to cost, schedule, material, quality, and capacity.
• Coordinate with Business Development, Finance, Quality, and Operations to ensure customer purchase orders, long-term agreements, pricing assumptions, and contractual commitments are accurately translated into executable program plans.
• Facilitate lessons learned and continuous improvement activities throughout the program lifecycle.
• Strategically lead supply chain strategies aligned with company growth, customer, and operational objectives.
• Lead supplier development initiatives and strategic sourcing programs.
• Lead S&OP activities and long-range material and supplier capacity planning.
• Develop supply chain risk mitigation and business continuity plans.
• Establish sourcing strategies for critical materials, outside processing, tooling, and purchased components.
• Support make-versus-buy and capacity planning decisions.
• Tactically manage procurement, planning, inventory control, and logistics activities.
• Review MRP recommendations and ensure alignment with production and customer priorities.
• Expedite critical materials and resolve supplier delivery issues.
• Participate in daily production meetings and support customer delivery commitments.
• Ensure material, outside processing, tooling, and purchased component requirements support program schedules.
• Coordinate priorities between customer requirements, production schedules, and supplier commitments.
• Partner with Quality Assurance to improve supplier quality performance.
• Support supplier audits, SCARs, root cause corrective action, PPAP/APQP, and FAI activities as applicable.
• Maintain supplier quality metrics and drive corrective actions.
• Participate in supplier qualification, capability assessment, and development initiatives.
• Ensure supplier performance supports aerospace quality, delivery, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive supplier on-time delivery performance through KPI management and structured supplier follow-up.
• Conduct supplier capacity assessments and risk reviews.
• Develop and execute recovery plans for critical suppliers and materials.
• Maintain supplier performance dashboards and reporting metrics.
• Proactively identify material and supplier constraints that could affect customer program milestones.
• Lead Kaizen events, Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs), and Lean initiatives.
• Utilize Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies to improve supply chain and program execution.
• Improve ERP/MRP utilization, data integrity, and planning accuracy.
• Develop scalable supply chain and program management processes and procedures.
• Establish meaningful KPIs for supplier performance, inventory, program execution, customer delivery, and operational effectiveness.
• Comply with AS9100 quality management system requirements.
• Maintain compliance with ITAR and applicable export-control requirements.
• Support FAR/DFARS requirements and customer flowdowns when applicable.
• Ensure purchasing and supplier controls meet applicable customer, regulatory, and quality system requirements.
• Support configuration and change control requirements affecting suppliers and customer programs.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $155,000 annually, depending on experience, qualifications, and demonstrated aerospace program-management capability. NE-XT offers a competitive employee benefits package. Benefit eligibility and specific plan terms are subject to applicable company plans and policies.