Draper

Supply Chain

• Participates in product development cycle in partnership with design engineering from concept stage through production pilot for mass production.
• Works collaboratively with internal program teams, quality, contracts, and other functional areas to understand unique supply chain needs to support customer, program, and commodity strategies.
• Source and evaluate supplier quotes, select, and recommend suppliers and negotiate price, delivery, quality, service, and most competitive solution.
• Act as the primary point of contact for program specific suppliers.
• Facilitates supplier business relationships, requirements and performance to contractual obligations and expectations.
• Works closely with the program teams during the proposal phase to support supply chain and contractual requirements and compliance.
• Works closely with the program team and quality in the development of the Bill of Materials (BOM), to include supplier sourcing and obtaining the necessary documentation to ensure compliance and advise on material selection based on supplier performance and risk assessments.
• Works closely with the supplier management team in completing comprehensive supplier due diligence to ensure compliance.
• Manages respective PO data, maintenance in MRP/ERP environment, and works in partnership with AP to resolve invoice/payment discrepancies.
• Acts as liaison with material master, vendor management and accounts payable to ensure data integrity of purchased components, suppliers and payment terms in ERP system.
• Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes.
• Monitors, tracks, and updates order status and is the primary contact to support NPI.
• Identify risks and works closely with manager to negotiate strategic supplier agreements.
• Other supply chain related tasks as necessary to include, but not limited to, logistics and inventory support.

Senior Supply Chain Specialist

Program Manager

• Own overall program execution, meeting cost, schedule, technical performance targets
• Establish project/program performance measurement baseline
• Develop and implement resource allocation plans
• Manage and control all phases of projects/programs from inception through completion
• Act as primary customer contact for program activities
• Identify, assess and apply actions for project/program opportunities, risks, and issues
• Develop new business or expand existing products/technologies with customers

Manager

• Lead a team of Planning professionals supporting one of Draper’s largest business areas
• Work with Planning Director to develop functional policies and procedures and flow them down to unit or sub-unit
• Support development and maintenance of program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in MS Project, based on requirements and scope provided by the customer
• Interacts with customer to address Planning issues and coordinate deliverables
• Briefs senior and executive leadership on program status and other schedule details
• Detail plan and maintain the IMS throughout the program’s lifecycle that incorporates contractual and programmatic changes into the IMS in order to maintain realistic, current contract schedule baselines
• Ensure the IMS is compliant with government customer requirements throughout all program phases
• Ensure the IMS is resource-loaded for applicable scope with target budgets and demonstrates thorough cost and schedule integration
• Lead and conduct detailed performance capture and analysis of the IMS and supporting documents to ensure quality, completeness and compliance
• Support EAC and LRE processes as they relate to the Program IMS
• Lead the development and maintenance of the Program Master Phasing Schedule using Milestones Professional Software
• Partner with the Program Office to ensure integration of program plans and schedules across company functional groups including finance, engineering, procurement, operations, manufacturing, and quality
• Identification and implementation of project management processes, tools, program planning, and control practices for new pursuits and existing programs.

Manager, Program Planning

Engineer

• Conducting System Safety Analyses that inform across the Systems Engineering lifecycle
• On-time delivery and maturation of System Safety work packages
• Socializing and demystifying System Safety best practices and techniques to internal stakeholders
• Advocating for System Safety best practices to internal and external stakeholders
• Assessing technical data packages for compliance with System Safety processes
• Documenting insights, findings, lessons learned in Draper’s collaborative Digital Engineering tool suite

System Analysis Engineer

• Proactively works collaboratively with internal program teams, quality, contracts, and other functional areas to understand unique supply chain needs to support customer, program, and commodity strategies.
• Source and evaluate supplier quotes, select, and recommend suppliers and negotiate price, delivery, quality, service, and most competitive solution.
• Identifies and realizes cost savings and reduction opportunities, gains alignment with finance and internal stakeholders for these wins, and actively tracks post event actual savings obtained.
• Work closely with the program offices, quality and the larger procurement team and act as the primary point of contact for program specific suppliers.
• Assist in pricing and maintaining Bill of Materials changes as relates to baseline and estimate to complete.
• Ability to review and understand contractual requirements and facilitates supplier business relationships to ensure contractual requirements, performance, obligations and expectations are met.
• Understand and interpret contract changes.
• Proactively engage with suppliers to resolve issues and negotiate lead time improvement and other advantages for Draper.
• Works closely with the program teams during the proposal phase to support supply chain and contractual requirements and compliance.
• Provide analysis on cost and schedule performance.
• Works closely with the program team and quality in the development of the Bill of Materials (BOM), to include supplier sourcing and obtaining the necessary documentation to ensure compliance and advise on material selection based on supplier performance and risk assessments.
• Successfully negotiates Long Term Agreements (LTA) to ensure continual contractual coverage and drives cost savings.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes that may impact supply chain risk management practices.
• Manages respective PO data, maintenance in MRP/ERP environment, and works in partnership with AP to resolve invoice/payment discrepancies.
• Acts as liaison with the material planner, supplier management and accounts payable to ensure data integrity of purchased components, suppliers and payment terms in ERP system.
• Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes.
• Monitors, tracks, and updates order status and is the primary contact to support schedule.
• Other supply chain related tasks as necessary to include, but not limited to, logistics and inventory support.

Supply Chain Analyst

Business Analyst

• Provide production support for all Supply Chain related business systems
• Lead the ERP procurement production support, maintenance, user security authorizations, and third-party portals
• Gather requirements, create dashboards and reports, write complex SQL queries to extract insights, create data visualizations (e.g. metrics), and optimize business processes
• Provide Supply Chain data warehouse reporting, ERP query reporting to support leadership, cross-functional stakeholders, and other requests
• Manage ERP workflow signature authorizations for Supply Chain processes
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend operational improvements, system changes, and automation opportunities
• Generates requirements documents to communicate process workflows and data/functional needs to both business stakeholders and technical staff
• Coordinates and monitors activities of Supply Chain personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule
• Leads and performs the development and execution of user acceptance test plans, user documentation and implementation for new system functionality
• Prepares and conducts system functionality training
• Assist users in troubleshooting system related problems and offers solutions
• Identifies and documents all system constraints, implications and consequences of various proposed system changes
• Participates in related systems development efforts as needed to provide input and contribute to a comprehensive development strategy

Senior Supply Chain Business Analyst

Electrical Engineer

• Support our growing demand for the design of avionics solutions across numerous programs
• Develop the architecture, design circuits, perform simulations, assist ECAD with layout, verify and test designs
• Perform a variety of engineering activities throughout the lifecycle to support planning, requirements development, documentation, test, and deployment
• Build, debug, and test prototypes and deliverable hardware
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies

Principal Electrical Engineer

• Support engineering decisions based on radiation effects on overall system performance.
• Design harden and verify the performance of systems across multiple radiation effects, including dose rate, total ionizing dose (TID), neutron displacement damage (NDD), and single event effects (SEE).
• Support interdisciplinary teams to ensure that radiation hardening is maintained across the product lifecycle.
• Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction – contribute to task planning and technical development, propose ways forward, and adapt appropriately to changes in program requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead small teams (fewer than 5 people).
• Able to provide insight and suggest design modifications based on analysis outcomes, and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical challenges.
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies for them.
• Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback

Senior Radiation Analysis Engineer

Procurement

• Responsible for the daily operation, planning, coordination, and execution of all purchasing activities while adhering to strict regulatory compliance (e.g., FAR, DFARS).
• Responsible for providing a single point of oversight and leadership for the end-to-end acquisition processes to include supplier relationships, contract negotiations, and cost structures.
• Implement procedures that allow for streamlined and risk-based decision making to align with corporate growth, financial goals, strategic objectives.
• Work directly with Supply Chain Leadership and regularly interact with cross-functional Sr. Leadership and key stakeholders.
• Plan, prioritize, and implement compliant initiatives and process improvement strategies contributing to Draper’s success.

Procurement Director

Solutions Engineer

• Independently execute system engineering lifecycle assignments.
• Adapt appropriately to changes in program priorities and requirements.
• Adheres to existing best practices and Quality Management System processes.
• Continues to expand their depth/knowledge in their technical discipline through formal and informal learning.
• Work within multi-disciplinary teams and independently execute assignments
• Drive solutions to complex problems with limited direction
• Lead small teams (few than five people) and align team towards program goals.
• Provides insight and suggests design modifications based on analysis outcomes, and to apply analysis techniques across a range of technical challenges
• Identify program/system-level technical risks and develop and execute mitigation strategies.
• Actively mentor less experienced engineers and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback
• Performs other duties as assigned.