Supply Chain Manager

About the role

The Supply Chain Manager provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for the shipyard's Purchasing, Planning & Scheduling, and Material Control functions. The position is accountable for aligning procurement, production planning, material availability, inventory control, and logistics with contract requirements, engineering priorities, project budgets, and production schedules. This leader establishes disciplined processes, develops team capability, resolves cross-functional constraints, and delivers clear performance reporting to support safe, efficient, and on-time vessel construction.

Responsibilities

• Leadership and Department Management: Lead, coach, and coordinate the Purchasing, Planning & Scheduling, and Material Control departments, setting priorities, accountabilities, and performance expectations; develop department procedures, work standards, staffing plans, training needs, and succession coverage to support current and future project demands; create an integrated supply chain operating rhythm that connects engineering releases, bills of material, work packages, procurement, receiving, warehousing, kitting, and production need dates; escalate material, schedule, cost, quality, and supplier risks promptly, with recovery actions, owners, and required decision dates; promote a culture of safety, accuracy, urgency, ethical conduct, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Purchasing and Supplier Management: Provide oversight of requisitions, RFQs, bid evaluations, purchase orders, approvals, expediting, and procurement records for materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, and subcontracted services; ensure purchasing decisions meet technical specifications, quality requirements, approved budgets, required delivery dates, and applicable contractual obligations; lead supplier sourcing, qualification, negotiation, performance management, and corrective action in coordination with Engineering, Project Management, Production, Quality Control, and Finance; monitor open and overdue purchase-order commitments, identify long-lead and critical-path items, and implement recovery or alternate-source plans; ensure discrepancies involving pricing, invoices, receipts, damaged or unacceptable goods, and supplier performance are resolved and documented.
• Planning, Scheduling, and Production Control: Oversee