Senior Manager, Lean Supply Chain & Production Control

Nippon Seiki Ohio / New Sabina Industries, Inc.; Sabina (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nippon Seiki Ohio / New Sabina Industries, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager of Supply Chain to lead a team responsible for procuring materials, production planning, and on-time delivery while maintaining inventory targets.

You will drive lean initiatives, collaborate with engineering, production, and quality, and report KPI performance to optimize efficiency and customer satisfaction across North American operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, business, analysis or equivalent progressive experience in automotive manufacturing, supply chain management, and logistics engineering.
• Minimum ten years in manufacturing supply chain, with at least five years supervising large teams of direct and indirect reports.
• Knowledge of supply chain, production scheduling, capacity requirements, and automotive customer requirements, ERP/WMS/MES experience.
• Coursework towards supply chain certification such as SCMA, ISM or APICS.
• Project management experience.
• Proficiency and adaptability using desktop applications: strong MS Excel skills, MS PowerPoint presentation preparation, Warehouse Management Systems.
• Strong problem solving and root cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Direct and support Supply Chain departmental activities to support production.
• Lead managers and supervisors to achieve set inventory levels and production plans.
• Manage to and report performance against KPI targets.
• Lead collaboration with engineering, production, and quality to prepare the organization for best practices and smooth start-ups.
• Analyze current state for efficiency and competitiveness; propose, implement, and manage improvement projects.
• Implement and maintain control systems consistent with lean, just-in-time production and delivery methodologies.
• Evaluate and analyse inventory levels and drive improvements.
• Liaise & collaborate with other departments and NSNA organization as required to support the overall goals for North American.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Excel skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, business, analysis

Project management experience

SCMA/ISM/APICS coursework

Tools

ERP/WMS/MES

Job description

Nippon Seiki Ohio / New Sabina Industries, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager of Supply Chain to lead a team responsible for procuring materials, production planning, and on-time delivery while maintaining inventory targets.

You will drive lean initiatives, collaborate with engineering, production, and quality, and report KPI performance to optimize efficiency and customer satisfaction across North American operations.