Senior Manager of Supply ChainAs the Senior Manager of Supply Chain, you will lead end-to-end supply chain, planning, and production control activities to ensure material availability, efficient scheduling, optimized inventory, and strong supplier performance across fast-paced aerospace programs. This role drives strategy, execution, and continuous improvement while aligning procurement, planning, logistics, and production control functions with operational capacity, customer requirements, and business objectives.
Responsibilities- Leads Supply Chain, Planning, and Production Control teams, setting priorities, allocating resources, developing personnel, and ensuring effective execution across all functions.
- Develops and executes supply chain strategies that integrate procurement, production planning, inventory, logistics, capacity, and customer requirements with organizational objectives.
- Oversees production planning and production control activities, ensuring effective scheduling, material availability, job prioritization, capacity utilization, and on-time delivery.
- Leads procurement and supplier management activities, including sourcing, maintaining the Approved Supplier List, evaluating supplier performance, and driving supplier improvement.
- Manages inventory, logistics, and material flow to maintain proper inventory levels, timely material availability, effective warehousing, and control of excess and constrained materials.
- Establishes and monitors key performance indicators for supply chain, planning, production control, and suppliers, driving accountability and operational performance.
- Identifies and mitigates supply chain and production risks such as material shortages, supplier constraints, long lead-time materials, production capacity limitations, and schedule risks.
- Drives continuous improvement and standardization across supply chain functions, optimizing ERP/MRP processes, planning parameters, purchasing practices, scheduling methods, and inventory strategies.
- Provides cross-functional leadership with Operations, Program Management, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Manufacturing to resolve material, planning, supplier, and production issues.
- Develops a high-performing organization through clear expectations, accountability, training, succession planning, and professional development while fostering teamwork, safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, operations management, business administration, engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- At least 8 years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, production planning, operations, or related disciplines, preferably within aerospace or complex manufacturing.
- At least 3 years of leadership or management experience, ideally overseeing multiple functional teams.
- Strong understanding of material requirements planning (MRP), enterprise resource planning (ERP), production planning, production control, procurement, inventory management, capacity planning, and supplier management.
- Experience with EPICOR or comparable ERP/MRP systems.
- Strong understanding of aerospace regulations and quality standards, including AS9100, National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP), and ISO 9001.
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing operational key performance indicators (KPIs) and leveraging data to drive organizational performance.
- Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or similar methodologies.
- Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and team development skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-mix aerospace manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of aerospace supply chain practices, supplier quality requirements, customer flow-down requirements, and applicable industry regulations.
- A current U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one.
Benefits- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contribution
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Tuition reimbursement
