- Performing supplier performance monitoring and executes supplier improvement plans to maintain supplier performance at a desired level
- Helps supplier demonstrate operational excellence in safety, quality, delivery, and organizational development
- Drive engagement and cross-functional collaboration between all internal and external stakeholders
- Establish partnerships at all levels within the supplier, emphasizing: collaboration, clear expectations, common goals, trust and transparency
- Performs supplier rate readiness assessments to ensure future rate support with sufficient capacity, resources, manpower and tooling allocation
- Performs risk management and identifies operational risks that could affect future supplier performance
- Steer supplier culture from reactive to proactive, managing risks before they become issues
- Jointly develop recovery plans with supplier, then implement operating rhythm and metrics to hold supplier and stakeholders accountable for performance to plan
- Deploys and monitors production tracking tools such as material LOBs and Waterfall Charts
- Adept in investigative tools like RRCA, 8D, QCPC etc.
- Ensure suppliers are managing capacity, demand and resource plans that demonstrate rate readiness
- Champions change through active support of continuous improvement tools and processes
- Recurring and ad hoc reporting of information and metrics to internal stakeholders
- Expected job related travel of at least 50%.
- Position requires a Bachelor degree and 12+ years' experience or a Masters Degree with 10+ years of experience.
- Experience in Aerospace Manufacturing
- Project management experience & managing a team experience
- Able to work independently with good project management skills.
- Good technical writing skills with proficiency in using MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience in a quality / manufacturing / production engineering role with a strong mechanical engineering and problem-solving skill set.
- Experience working in a Lean and/or Lean Product Development environment preferred
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