Milwaukee Chapter Job Board: Supply Chain Director II
Date: 5/1/2010
Company: DRS Power & Control Technologies, Inc
Address: 4265 North 30th Street
City State Zip: Milwaukee, WI 53216
Title: Supply Chain Director II
Openings: 1
Location: Milwaukee, WI
StartDate: Negotiable
Salary: Negotiable
Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in supply chain management, business or engineering with a minimum of 15 years demonstrated experience in high technology, aerospace or defense or equivalent experience.
Masters Degree in supply chain, business or operations management, preferred
Expert knowledge of supply chain management tools and procedures
Expert leadership and management skills, particularly influence management and conflict resolution
Significant experience throughout the product lifecycle from New Product Introduction through obsolescence to include: generation of system and subsystem statements of work and subcontracts, strategic supplier selection, risk management, and continuous improvement efforts including implementation for cost reduction and performance improvement efforts.
Experience with earned value cost accounting and reporting; experience with metrics for assessing and reporting program and/or commodity progress, productivity and variance analysis.
Experience in finance, contracting, export regulations, engineering, logistics, manufacturing and DoD, ITAR, EAR, FAR, DFAR regulations.
Superior customer interface skills.
Expert problem solving skills.
Excellent presentation 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.
Must have excellent leadership and oral and written communication skills.
U.S. Citizenship, required.
Professional certification in Supply Chain or Contracts discipline (C.P.M., CPIM, CPCM), preferred.
Working knowledge of Oracle operating systems desirable.
The ability to travel up to 50%.
Duties: Create and establish overall direction for Supply Chain (Strategic Supply Management and Procurement, and may include adjacent functions such as planning, procurement, warehousing and logistics) while creating and implementing a vision for continual improvement of supply chain processes at a detail level as well as higher organizational level; works with others to establish methodologies to resolve process issues.
Establish processes and ensure that these processes comply with Government, Corporate and Company requirements.
Establish disciplined, aggressive proposal evaluation teams with a strong supplier selection process, technical evaluation and cost/price analysis.
Drive independent price/cost analyses are performed as required.
Create the vision for the implementation, maintenance, support and continuous improvement of Supply Chain Management operational programs that will enhance profitability and service to customers.
Drive the utilization of purchasing leverage obtained through coordination of efforts across the company by participation in the corporate initiatives.
Ensure products and services obtained by the team meet quality, cost and schedule objectives in accordance with program and company requirements.
Manage supply chain opportunities by acting as the primary liaison with other members of manufacturing & engineering.
Provide people leadership focused upon personal and collective accountability while fostering an environment that enhances personal growth and career development through mentoring and training; performance management, and challenging the organization to strive for higher performance levels.
Evaluate the internal performance for all aspects of supply chain and define budgetary impact.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the sourcing strategy implementation, contract compliance and customer satisfaction programs.
Participate in cross functional design reviews and approvals with project teams and suppliers.
Owns the process from proposal pricing until material ships.
Support, communicate and defend the mission, values and culture of the company.
Contact: To apply please visit www.srd.com/careers
Address: 4265 North 30th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53216
Phone: 414-875-2900
Fax: 414-875-4817
E-mail: greatjobs@drs-pct.com
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