Senior Supply Chain & Production Planning Lead

Senesco Marine LLC; North Kingstown (RI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Senesco Marine LLC is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to lead Purchasing, Planning & Scheduling, and Material Control for vessel construction. This role aligns procurement, planning, inventory, and logistics with contract requirements and project budgets, driving safety, efficiency, and on-time delivery.

Responsibilities include developing department processes, managing supplier performance, and coordinating schedules across Engineering, Project Management, Production, and Finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, operations, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
• Seven or more years of progressive experience in purchasing, production planning, material control, supply chain, or operations within shipbuilding, marine construction, heavy manufacturing, defense, or a comparable project-based environment.
• Three or more years of leadership experience managing supervisors, managers, or multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience with project schedules, budgets, bills of material, purchase orders, supplier negotiations, inventory controls, material requirements, and performance reporting.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and working proficiency with Microsoft Project and enterprise planning, procurement, or inventory systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication, negotiation, analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and coordinate the Purchasing, Planning & Scheduling, and Material Control departments, setting priorities, accountabilities, and performance expectations.
• Develop department procedures, work standards, staffing plans, training needs, and succession coverage to support current and future project demands.
• Create an integrated supply chain operating rhythm that connects engineering releases, bills of material, work packages, procurement, receiving, warehousing, kitting, and production need dates.
• Escalate material, schedule, cost, quality, and supplier risks promptly, with recovery actions, owners, and required decision dates.
• Promote a culture of safety, accuracy, urgency, ethical conduct, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Provide oversight of requisitions, RFQs, bid evaluations, purchase orders, approvals, expediting, and procurement records for materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, and subcontracted services.
• Ensure purchasing decisions meet technical specifications, quality requirements, approved budgets, required delivery dates, and applicable contractual obligations.
• Lead supplier sourcing, qualification, negotiation, performance management, and corrective action in coordination with Engineering, Project Management, Production, Quality Control, and Finance.
• Monitor open and overdue purchase-order commitments, identify long-lead and critical-path items, and implement recovery or alternate-source plans.
• Oversee development, maintenance, and communication of project schedules, work-order structures, work packages, production priorities, engineering need dates, and resource or manning reports.
• Ensure planning and cost-tracking data is accurate, current, auditable, and aligned with project budgets and production status.
• Coordinate schedule interfaces among Engineering, Project Management, Production, Purchasing, Material Control, and Finance to identify and remove bottlenecks.
• Provide regular analysis of schedule performance, labor utilization, productivity, project hours, material readiness, and emerging constraints.
• Ensure production teams receive timely drawings, work packages, material status, and actionable schedule information.
• Oversee receiving, inspection coordination, warehousing, inventory control, material preservation, issue, kitting, staging, internal movement, shipping, and surplus disposition.
• Establish controls for project-assigned material, owner-furnished equipment, high-value items, shelf-life material, shortages, substitutions, returns, and nonconforming material.
• Maintain material traceability and inventory accuracy through routine audits, cycle counts, reconciliation, and corrective action.
• Coordinate material priorities and delivery to the point of use in support of production sequence and schedule commitments.
• Develop and issue concise weekly and monthly reports covering procurement workload, actual versus budget performance, overdue commitments, material availability, schedule health, inventory accuracy, supplier performance, and corrective actions.
• Partner with Finance to support invoice matching, commitment tracking, accruals, forecasting, and resolution of procurement or receiving discrepancies.
• Establish meaningful key performance indicators and use data to improve lead time, cost, schedule reliability, inventory accuracy, and internal service levels.
• Maintain disciplined use of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and company business systems; support system configuration, data standards, user training, and process audits.
• Identify and implement opportunities for cost reduction, waste elimination, standardization, improved material flow, and stronger supplier performance without compromising safety, quality, or contractual requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, operations, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

ERP systems

Job description

Senesco Marine LLC is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to lead Purchasing, Planning & Scheduling, and Material Control for vessel construction. This role aligns procurement, planning, inventory, and logistics with contract requirements and project budgets, driving safety, efficiency, and on-time delivery.

Responsibilities include developing department processes, managing supplier performance, and coordinating schedules across Engineering, Project Management, Production, and Finance.