Supply Chain Manager

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Routine monitoring of actual volume by major product group.
• Routine calculations of lead times, equipment efficiencies, and rolling volume projections by major product group.
• Administration of an accurate finite schedule for all pacemakers.
• Provide guidance to Supervisors and Managers on flow, inventory, rework, and any other actions as needed.
• Maintain accurately dated production orders.
• Disposition non-conforming product and follow up to ensure it is released, scrapped, cross-applied, reworked, and/or remade as instructed.
• Monitor slow-moving, surplus, and obsolete inventory to ensure it is properly consumed, scrapped, re-worked, cross-applied, and/or reserved by Finance as needed.
• True-up raw material inventories in system.
• Plan raw material and subassembly needs and provide purchase orders to suppliers.
• Follow up on open purchase orders as needed with suppliers.
• Physical and systematic Receiving, Packaging, finished goods and customer-owned inventory management, and Shipping.
• Safe work environment and behaviors at all levels.
• Adherence to Collective Bargaining Agreement and Rules of Conduct.
• Robust cross-training within team.
• Present delivery and inventory topics as appropriate at daily tier meetings.

Supervision Scope

• Direct supervision of one (1) DC Manager, (2) Supply Chain Schedulers, and three (3) Supply Chain Planners.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong leadership skills, including a drive to develop continuous improvement strategies and execute them to deliver results.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrates “lean” thinking by driving continuous improvements in areas directly and indirectly associated with Supply Chain.
• High degree of computer skills such as Microsoft Office and SAP.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for a broad audience ranging from executives to blue collar team members.
• Self-managed work style, with attention to details and understanding of both manufacturing and business principles.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in production scheduling, raw material planning, or freight planning is required.
• Four-year degree in a business or technical field is preferred.
• Use of a finite scheduling system is preferred.
• Working knowledge of Lean and Six-Sigma tools is preferred.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Fast-paced and hectic work environment where speed, accuracy, and multi-tasking is required routinely.
• Regular electronic interaction with internal and external business partners at all levels of the organization.
• Job can require frequent, unexpected overtime and the need to be available to address problems timely 24/7 to support continuous operation of the factory.