Planning & Supply Chain Manager

Company: voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation
Location: Shelbyville
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

Experienced with inventory & production scheduling? Enjoy having your eye on strategic initiatives but also like being in the details? We are seeking a leader for our inventory & production planning team. Apply now if you possess great attention to details, strong math and project management skills!

What You'll Be Doing:

Ensure Aerospace Division planning and supply chain operations function properly. Responsible for production planning and scheduling, customer service accounts, purchasing raw material and managing outside services, inventory, and warehouse department. Develop and monitor supply chain strategy and manage goals to improve productivity, efficiency and accuracy of customer demand, inventory, and on time delivery. Manage costs while securing high quality material. Collaborate with vendors, suppliers, and internal resources to ensure all operations meet safety, quality, and efficiency standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.Others as assigned.

• Manages, motivates and coaches others to deliver consistently high performance, achieve KPIs and meet training and development needs. Builds trust, rewards, recognizes positive behavior, makes decisions, and solves conflicts quickly.
• Sets and maintains departmental budget.
• Manages to ensure safety, efficiency, and on-time delivery.
• Strategically determines best methods to resolve complex problems to ensure customer satisfaction and adherence to organizational policies.
• Supports management with reports, schedules, risk assessments, alternative plans and mitigation activities. Planning & Scheduling
  • Leads production and inventory planning to translate the demand signals into feasible, optimized, and reliable short and long-term supply plans that meet customer needs and inventory targets while always ensuring inventory and customer health.
  • Responsible for customer service activities, ERP/MRP system (forecasting, order processing, work order entry, production planning, scheduling equipment and manpower, material purchases, schedule adherence, and continuity of supply and finished goods.
  • Provides customer analysis and resource/capacity planning to maximize capacity and ensure production efficiency related to run standards. Reviews and manages demand vs. capacity, delivering solutions to mitigate bottlenecks; develops capacity and scheduling models. Supply Chain
    • Manages (directly or indirectly) buyer for Aerospace. Responsible for sourcing material and working with Corp Purchasing for compliance, vendor contract approval and pricing negotiations.
    • Finds cost-effective solutions for supply chain processes to include outside service vendors.
    • Develops and implements safety guidelines in all aspects of the supply chain (e.g., use of trucks, forklifts)
    • Ensures logistic systems in place are effective, maintained, and review opportunities to standardize and streamline.
      • Manages daily work order input to include inventory verification through cycle counts, work order audits, and material usage. Organize and facilitate plant-wide physical inventories, as needed while maximizing storage space. Maintain outside warehouses.
      • Orders and manages inventory levels of raw material, finished goods, and all purchased components using FIFO procedures within RFC acceptable inventory turn levels while at the same time insure product availability to our customers. Supervises inventory analysis to maintain minimal levels and safe and proper storage of raw material, WIP, and finished goods inventories while providing prompt customer deliveries. Schedule: This exempt-level manager role will primarily workeight or more hours per day, five days per week based on business needs and will primarily be day-time hours but may occasionally work or travel nights or weekends as needed.
        
        This is an onsite, remote-flexible position.
        
        Qualifications
        • Bachelor's degree and 1-2 years related experience OR 5 or more years of related experience including:
          • Five or more years' experience in manufacturing or distribution industry. Ideally in Aerospace and/or prior supply chain/outside services.
          • Experience scheduling manufacturing resources in a JIT or lean environment. Should include hands-on experience with implementing and using MRP such as SAP, Global Shop Solutions or similar and ability to develop useful tools and reports to support operations and planning efforts.
          • Supply chain, logistics experience including knowledge of DOT, export control and trucking/forklift.
          • Experience with EDI (830 forecasts, 862s)
          • Experience in successfully managing others including production planning, supply chain, warehouse/logistics or related teams. At least 2 years' supervisory experience.
          • Communication skills that include ability to effectively: train others, present or correspond highly detailed or technical information internally or externally.
          • Excellent computer software skills with ability to learn new software as needed. Must have knowledge of Microsoft Office and MRP software.
          • Strong basic math, clerical, data entry skills
          • Ability to travel as needed domestically and internationally.
          • US Person as defined by ITAR & EAR
          • High School Diploma or equivalent
            • Lives or relocating local to Shelbyville, KY area or a commutable distance - this is an onsite position
              
              Preferred:
              • Bachelor's degree in related field
              • Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) or Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
              • Five or more years' experience with combined supply chain/purchasing, technical and/or commercial planning/scheduling.
              • Five or more years in a manufacturing environment, including Lean manufacturing concepts.
              • Experience with metals preferred. Who We Are
                
                voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation, or RFC as we call it, supplies custom roll formed metal components into several industries including Aerospace, Construction, Material Handling, Off-Highway, Office Furniture, Solar and Transportation. In 2000, Roll Forming Corporation was acquired by globally leading technology group voestalpine AG and became part of the Metal Forming, Tubes and Sections division. Today, voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation has seven production facilities across three states with five facilities and headquarters located in Shelby County, Kentucky and one facility each in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
                
                What We Offer You
                • Several great benefit plans, including multiple health insurance options, vision, dental, life, short-term and long-term disability coverage, health-saving accounts, or flexible spending account
                • 401K or 401K Roth up to 6% Match
                • Quarterly Profit-Sharing Bonus. Example: we paid out over $7000 in last 12 months!
                • Apprenticeship programs & tuition reimbursement opportunities
                • Leadership training opportunities
                • TogetherWeCare, a philanthropic volunteer program that allows employees to support their community while on company time
                • Countdown to Zero, a global environmental impact initiative that strives to make our work environments more efficient and environmentally friendly
                  
                  voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation is an At Will employer. Employment will be at-will, which means that either the employee or the employer may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without prior notice, and with or without cause.
                  
                  Roll Forming Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, and any other federal, state, or locally protected classifications. Please contact us at RFC.HR@voestalpine.com if you require any alternate application form or accommodation during our hiring process due to disability.

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