Director of Production
Crusoe
AssemblyCloudERP
Supply Chain Manager – Process Systems
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Massachusetts
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💰 $110,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AssemblyERP
About the role
- Train, support, develop and coach the members of the team
- Define, assign and monitor objectives
- Have management responsibility for meeting cost, quality and delivery objectives
- In close coordination with the engineering leads, plan and assign work, manage the workload and define priorities as required
- Act as an escalation point to solve issues
- Ensure process adherence for strategic sourcing, purchase orders placement/management and supplier quality
- Report on project status, risks and issues to the supply chain and the systems leadership teams
- Lead change management and process definition/improvement initiatives
- Recruit new team members as additional headcount is approved
- Elaborate and execute project procurement or commodity strategies
- Coordinate planning and scheduling activities with the assigned planners in a matrixed organization (functionally reporting to the head of Supply Planning)
- Coordinate supplier development and reliability activities with the assigned supplier development engineers in a matrixed organization
- Drive sourcing projects, coordinating cross-functionally
- Negotiate short and long-term agreements for parts, subassemblies, finished goods, equipment, and/or services
- Create and manage purchase orders
- Monitor suppliers throughout the execution of the contracts
- Support cost savings initiatives, lead time improvement projects, and quality improvement projects
- Visit suppliers as necessary to conduct business reviews or check on project milestones
- Negotiate internally and externally at all levels or with people of influence frequently
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, finance or other related fields
- 10+ years’ related work experience in a manufacturing, supply chain, engineering or other relevant supplier-focused environment
- Successful experience managing and developing a team
- Previous experience sourcing equipment, parts and services
- Ability to negotiate complex contracts, including build to specification contracts
- Ability to develop sourcing strategies for projects or commodities
- Deep understanding of supply chain and ERP best practices
- Proven experience in supporting critical new product introduction activities for highly technical products
- Ability to communicate with internal engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers in a collaborative way\u00a0
- Organizational and project management skills
- Customer service mindset and entrepreneurial spirit
- Exceptional creative problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Demonstrate integrity, respect, attention to detail, collaboration, creativity and agility
- Ability to work well under pressure in a dynamic environment
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion
- Perform extended activities such as stooping, climbing, typing, standing, sitting, etc.
- Perform extended periods of phone or teleconference work
- Willingness to travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call regularly; travel expected to be minimum 25% including International travel
- Work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead (Pb), high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics
