Supply Chain Engineering Strategy and Integration Manager

Supply Chain Engineering Strategy and Integration Manager

Requirements

• 5 or more years’ experience in a variety of hands-on engineering roles
• 3+ years of experience in a management role
• 1+ Years of experience in project or program management
• 1+ years of experience with supply chain
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, or foreign equivalent

Responsibilities

• Manages, develops, and motivates a team of roughly 15-20 direct reports
• Develops and executes integrated organizational plans, policies and procedures and guides the development of business and technical strategies, goals, objectives across Engineering and Supply Chain across Commercial and Military products.
• Accountable for coordinating and collaborating with suppliers and engineering teams in all major business units to support BGS Supply Chain
• Responsible for support of Commercial and Defense Manufacturing Engineering systems, tools, processes, training and command media
• Builds and maintains relationships across a globally diverse team
• Owns tool disposition and storage to enable BGS-Commercial supply chain procurements
• Implements Lean practices
• Manages Risks, Issues and Opportunities
• Acts as the initial point of escalation for issues or challenges encountered by the team. Capable of effectively triaging and de-escalating issues with impacted parties
• Responsible for ensuring engineering support of supplier spares contract execution and coordination with key stakeholders including program management, business development, customers, suppliers and cross-business engineering leaders to support BGS Supply Chain programs. Assists and engages when there are technical issues to identify mitigation and execution plans to ensure the technical integrity of our spare products.
• Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources.
• Knowledge of various engineering disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, and systems. The ability to communicate with technical personnel from multiple skill areas and functions to evaluate technical information and issues impacting design, production, and support of products, services, or other deliverables.
• Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports.
• Ensure engineering metrics used by the team are the right metrics at the right time and are as consistent as possible across the organization.
• Knowledgeable of how the business and organization operates; knowledgeable of policies, practices, trends, and information affecting the business and organization; understands the competition and the marketplace. Understands how to accomplish tasks through formal channels and informal network; understands the cultures of organizations. Applies this information in a way that contributes to the organizations strategic plan and bottom line.
• Moderate level of travel expected.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or building a team
• Experience in project management including interfacing with suppliers, partnerships, and/or customers