Supply Chain

• Lead troubleshooting efforts and root cause investigations while ensuring effective corrective action implementation
• Perform on-site and virtual audits for new domestic and international suppliers
• Analyze supplier capabilities and approve suppliers for use in providing specific products or services
• Partner with Engineering to support defining program quality requirements for specific components.
• Train suppliers on CFS quality requirements and systems
• Experience with industrial fabrication (construction, valves, pumps, molten salt)
• Review and approve quality deliverables from suppliers
• Partner with Buyers, Category Managers, and Supplier Integration Managers to provide formal input on source selection decisions while ensuring quality risks are mitigated
• Conduct or support first article inspections
• Monitor and observe test procedures
• Inspect parts accurately using approved measurement tools and interpret inspection reports. Develop inspection and test procedures
• Design and develop required process controls and quality plans
• Facilitate the creation and execution of PFMEA processes and applicable elements of APQP
• Support ISO 9001 implementation
• Support creation of manufacturing instructions to document quality critical characteristics
• Perform process capability studies and measurement systems analysis
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Buyers and Manufacturing, Design, and Operations Engineers to establish high-quality manufacturing lines and system prototypes
• Support cost reduction projects including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates
• Be a Change Agent. Identify gaps in processes, articulating gap closure plans, and manage performance improvement against a specified schedule
• Partner with Supplier Integration Managers on capability identification and development. Support and monitor production ramp-up and capacity expansion projects.
• Support internal and external negotiations at high levels or with persons of influence frequently
• Support the development of contractual documents with Legal and Supply Chain
• Establish preferred suppliers by category. Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs and KPOs within the supply base.
• Adhere to all supply chain policies, procedures, guidelines and instructions including those regarding the procurement of materials, intellectual property, and export compliance

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