Senior Supply Chain Planner

Responsibilities

• Maintain BOM configurations and vehicle configurations.
• Investigate and initiate data integrity related to PO’s, receipts, inventory, revisions, work orders, and demand signals. 
• Generate demand signals based on inputs from BOMs, inventory, accurate lead times, build schedule, procurement activities, and open work orders to ensure clear to build for production.
• Thorough and detailed management of multiple top-level configurations of vehicles into MRP and coordination with components planner for sub-assemblies to ensure accurate signals are triaged and actioned. 
• Drive strategic decision making for sourcing, make/buy, delivery, and production schedule for both pathfinder builds and production ramp. 
• Manage an efficient New Product Introduction with engineering, supply chain, and production to not only enable build start, but also to support production, test, and integration readiness.
• Make critical risk decisions for high cost and long lead components within an early design environment to ensure parts are delivered on time, while minimizing expenditures.
• Support in procurement activities such as quoting and PO issuance if needed.
• Monitor receipts, purchase orders, inventory, BOM revision configuration, and work order accuracy to drive clean demand signals.
• Collaborate with production and manufacturing engineering to understand production and build schedule on pathfinder builds and products.
• Flow down status and action drivers or blockers to all stakeholders to enable proactive communication and teamwork.
• Top level assembly configurations of new designs and upkeep BOM configuration to match MRP.
• Work with design & manufacturing engineers to populate and maintain the bill of materials
• Manage forecasting of parts from multiple teams and disciplines through numerous suppliers to meet schedule.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience working with engineering, material/production planning, operations/supply chain management, or master scheduling 
• 4+ years’ demonstrated experience working with ERP or inventory systems
• 2+ years’ experience procuring and managing vendor relations

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 6+ years’ working in purchasing, contract negotiations, material, production planning, or master production scheduling within a production/manufacturing environment 
• Understanding of manufacturing processes related to mechanical components 
• Detail-oriented, and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
• Demonstrated experience building dashboard tools to automate repetitive daily tasks
• Remarkable problem-solving skills with a bias for speed and accuracy
• Strong track record of leadership and team building skills
• Lean or continuous improvement experience or ability to build dashboard tools to eliminate repetitive daily tasks
• Self-motivated, quick learner, and ability to prioritize efforts to meet customer and company goals
• Strong technical ability to read drawings and blueprints, understanding of manufacturing processes
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external supplier relationships in a fast-moving and ever-changing environment.
• Value add engineering abilities that improve part quality, delivery, and cost.
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, highly self motivated.
• Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated and tracked results compared to goals.
• Effective written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
• Technical knowledge and skills in coding and computer applications, (e.g. MS Office Suite, VBA, Smartsheet, SQL, Confluence, JIRA, Power BI, etc.)