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About the role
- Manager Supply Chain overseeing procurement quality, cost, and delivery for defense solutions. Leading a multi-discipline team at the Melbourne, FL location of DRS.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for quality, delivery, and cost of procured materials
- Manage a multi-discipline team
- Assist in the development of forecast/requirements for area of responsibility
- Assist in developing and implementing strategy for assigned area of responsibility
- Implement transition plans to new supplier
- Assist in creating Strategic Supplier Purchase Agreements
- Enforce company and department policies and procedures
- Monitor metrics and take action as appropriate
- Communicate and clarify departmental goals and metrics
- Responsible for ensuring monthly budgets are not exceeded; take action to realign to plan if budgets are exceeded
- Consolidate requisitions as much as possible to obtain leverage pricing
- Review open requisitions weekly and meet with appropriate buyers on the open requisitions
- Review placement to requisition need date and length of time in purchasing
- Coordinate with Engineering and Quality on a team approach to supplier assessments and approval
- Advise planning, engineering and drafting of item master errors, updates, or omissions in relation to mil-specs or new or obsolete items
- Advise planning, engineering and contracts of changes in prices or lead times that make and produce cost-prohibitive or lead times detrimental to production cycles
- Expedite critical components to ensure on-time deliveries
- Be prepared to address any current or potential parts issues
- Look for creative ways to improve purchasing ability to make contributions to the company’s goals
- Improve understanding of purchasing relationship to the over-all company plans and strategy
- Research and analyze costing information for cost reduction
- Evaluate dispositioned discrepancy reports, signed off by program engineers and Q.C. engineers, and submitting information to both for re-evaluation
- Support, communicate and defend the mission, values and culture of the company
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience in high technology, aerospace or defense or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain management tools and procedures
- Demonstrated management skills, particularly 'influence management' and 'conflict resolution'
- Experience throughout the product lifecycle from New Product Introduction through obsolescence
- Experience in finance, contracting, export regulations, engineering, logistics, manufacturing and DoD, ITAR, EAR, FAR, DFAR regulations
- Demonstrated negotiation skills
- Strong customer interface skills
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated success in managing manpower planning, program reviews, scheduling and budget control
- Must have a successful track record in managing complex aerospace/defense supply chain activities
- U.S. Citizenship required. This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- company contribution to a health savings account
- telemedicine
- life and disability insurance
- legal insurance
- 401(k) savings plan
- wellness programs focusing on physical, emotional, and financial well-being
- programs and activities to support career-growth, professional development, and skill enhancement
- flexible work schedules with 9/80 program
- competitive vacation
- health/emergency leave
- paid parental leave
- community service hours
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