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Supply Chain Specialist 3/4

Coordinates and monitors activities to support provisioning and program product deliverables, ensuring on-time delivery of parts. Maintains accurate inventory control of assets and monitors customer requirements/inquiries. Analyzes data to determine and lead inventory change requirements. Analyzes information and coordinates with others to determine maintenance, repair and/or corrective action. Develops and/or improves processes and/or solutions for inventory management and control, including root cause analyses. Interacts with external customers and internal organizations to facilitate logistics requirements, including emergent spares supply chain requirements. Supports strategic resourcing activities. Coordinates make or buy decisions with appropriate disciplines to establish, implement and sustain capabilities and sources of supply. Coordinates and documents movement of assets and components through the supply chain management cycle. Works under minimal direction and has avid working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.

Competencies



General


Communication
Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames the message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Accurately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately.

Contributing To Team Success
Makes procedural or process suggestions to work group members, other internal employees, and occasionally external customers for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals; listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents; shares important or relevant information with the team; adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.

Customer Focus
Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships; uses information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; periodically becomes involved in sharing information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists higher graded employees and/or project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs.

Initiating Action
Takes immediate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation in own or other work area. Implements new ideas or potential solutions without prompting; does not wait for others to take action or to request action. Takes action that goes beyond job requirements in order to achieve objectives.

Project Management
Experienced in creating comprehensive project schedules identifying time frames for key project milestones. Directs and manages more complex project schedules; independently identifies project resource requirements, may collaborate with others on the most complex projects assigned or assist more experienced employees in complex large scale projects. Ability to accept, direct and perform responsibilities and work assigned tasks as a project team member in support of the overall project; leads and directs the activities and resources of assigned projects and supports higher graded employees in more large scale and complex projects. Technical


Customer/Supplier Knowledge
Basic - Complete knowledge of customer's/supplier's organization, processes, policies and procedures, products, requirements, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, constraints, etc.
Preferred - Extensive knowledge of customer's/supplier's organization, processes, policies and procedures, products, requirements, capabilities, practices, support resources, preferences, constraints, etc.

Manufacturing Knowledge
Basic - Complete knowledge of aerospace product configuration, assembly, disassembly, re-assembly, testing, manufacturing capabilities, planning, systems, support equipment, and tooling to support emergent and routine requirements. Complete ability to apply manufacturing knowledge in support of supply chain management.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of aerospace product configuration, assembly, disassembly, re-assembly, testing, manufacturing capabilities, planning, systems, support equipment, and tooling to support unique, emergent, and routine requirements. Extensive ability to apply advanced manufacturing knowledge across organizations in support of supply chain management.

Product Support Supply Chain
Basic - Complete knowledge of the unique aspects of inventory planning and control processes (e.g., Lot sizes, Work in Process [WIP], Inventory Burndown, modifications, out of production, Kanban, Just In Time [JIT], Kitting, Point of Use [POU], inventory turn rate) to support planned and unplanned requirements.
Preferred - Extensive knowledge of the unique aspects of inventory planning and control processes (e.g., Lot sizes, Work in Process [WIP], Inventory Burndown, modifications, out of production, Kanban, Just In Time [JIT], Kitting, Point of Use [POU], inventory turn rate) utilizing inventory systems, and data flows to support planned and unplanned requirement decisions.

Provisioning Process
Basic - Complete knowledge of provisioning process methodology to support production and product development.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of provisioning process methodology to support production and product development.

Supply Chain Strategy
Basic - Complete knowledge of supply chain strategies (e.g., inventory reduction, parts kitting, supplier consolidation, optimum flow, lead-time reduction).
Preferred - Expert knowledge of supply chain strategies (e.g., inventory reduction, parts kitting, supplier consolidation, optimum flow, lead-time reduction).

Typical Education/Experience



Level 3 - Bachelor's and related work experience, a Master's degree and related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Level 4 - Bachelor's degree and related work experience, a Master's degree and related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.


Other Job related information



An ability to obtain an interim and/or final clearance (post-start) is required for this position. Maintains synchronization of a supply chain between various organizations, customers, and suppliers by managing inventory systems, simulation and modeling forecasting data, ordering from procurement contracts and managing spares delivery scheduling systems. Coordinates with company customer support representatives, contract administration, purchasing, engineering, quality assurance, traffic and warehousing. Applies technical standards, principals, theories, concepts and techniques of SCM to increasingly complex bills of material (BOM). Monitors, evaluates, and recommends processes to improve shop and supplier adherence to schedule. Analyzes process and production data and negotiates with both internal and external customers and suppliers to resolve conflicts and gain consensus on such complex issues as relationships among processes, costs, schedules and impact on production flow. Authorizes revisions to the materials management plan and deviations from inventory management guidelines. Interprets and implements new industry-wide developments. Guides and educates other organizations on materials management principles and concepts. Determines new or revised requirements. Integrates the production plan, manufacturing and master production schedules, supplier delivery, BOM structures, inventory records and routing, and monitors and analyzes their performance. Defines and implements problem resolutions and process improvements. Daily responsibilities include, but are not limited to, solving day-to-day supply chain problems, collecting and analyzing supply & maintenance data for tactical decision-making, prioritizing tasks, executing Asset Management best practices, ensuring adherence to common supply chain procedures and determining and coordinating continuous supply chain process improvement opportunities. Must be capable of creating and interpreting next action(s) after reviewing any detailed analysis of manufacturing BOM's of both Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) large orders and Sub-assembly orders. Knowledge of Boeing's Tooling system, drawing release process, MES, IMACS, Shop Floor Control, and all areas related to Delivery Support, including knowledge of MS2 and Microsoft Office, is a plus.


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