Supply Chain Manager - Plant 3

### Responsibilities This position will be in our Plant 3, Whitehall Casting Operation. This is a Staff Level position with high visibility, collaborating cross functionally to drive results as part of the Plant Leadership team. **Job Responsibilities:** - Lead and mentor a team of planning, scheduling, shipping, and outside processing professionals. - Develop and execute supply chain strategies aligned with plant goals for cost, quality, delivery, and compliance. - Lead sourcing and supplier performance management for raw materials (e.g., waxes, ceramics, alloys) and outside processes (e.g., HIP, NDT, heat treatment). - Oversee master production scheduling (MPS) and materials requirements planning (MRP) for casting operations. - Ensure alignment between customer demand, manufacturing capacity, and material availability. - Implement and maintain systems to control inventory accuracy, optimize stock levels, and ensure traceability (lot control, shelf life, serialization). - Drive continuous improvement in inventory turns and reduce obsolescence. - Manage inbound and outbound logistics, ensuring compliance with export controls (e.g., ITAR/EAR) and aerospace packaging standards. - Coordinate closely with Engineering, Quality, and Operations to support new product introductions (NPI), engineering changes, and production changes. - Support customer on-time delivery (OTD) and fulfillment metrics through proactive planning and issue resolution. **Job Roles:** - **Business acumen**--understands production needs and lean principles versus actual and anticipated customer demand with regard to raw materials; limits inventory overage; navigates large scope and scale; grows sales. - **Manage complexity**--supply chain expert both in terms of external suppliers and internal process; recognizes needs throughout the system and is able to plan accordingly for shared resources or materials; attends to multiple internal stakeholders and external customers with expertise on specific products and projects. - **Data and rigor**--invites multiple inputs, both qualitative and quantitative; makes adjustments from a data-informed perspective and communicates ramifications throughout the supply chain through to customer; partners with manufacturing and others to ensure schedule adherence; expert in material requirement planning, prioritizing based on data. - **Communication and relationship**--proactive communicator regarding specific business factors such as lead time; provides accurate and timely information and builds relationship by helping others know what to expect; insists on the integrity of doing what we say we will do. - **Proactive and assertive**--takes initiative; anticipates issues based on supply and forecasts; communicates regularly throughout the production cycle; asserts self as conduit between customer and production, representing both and finding ways to succeed; asserts business expectations while simultaneously protecting the need for adequate time and information to forecast and plan. - **Responsive**--balances proactivity with understanding of factors that can affect the business; adapts quickly to unforeseen circumstances; manages changes to projects and timelines to create seamless experiences; reacts to the needs of internal and external stakeholders to provide remarkable service; remains dispassionate in response; comfortable with the intensity of the work and the pressures it creates. - **Talent advocate**--creates ways to involve junior associates; collaborates cross-functionally to stimulate development and contribute to talent factory strategy while developing team. - **Continuous improvement**--examines plans to improve forecasting, estimating and execution capabilities; interacts with stakeholders to create feedback loops and implements findings. - **Organization**--works with systems and governance; manages time well; leads with information and time specific exactness; creates urgency through timelines and forecasts.…