Job Title: Supply Chain Operations Production Specialist

Location: Rockford, Illinois

Job Description:

• Collaborate with Customer Supply Chain Managers, Operations, and Planners to understand critical manufacturing parts, escalate issues, identify improvement opportunities, and generate priorities based on business unit and site needs.
• Work with operations and planning team to coordinate the material movement of critical components, review recovery plans, improve on time delivery, drive accountability, and expedite outside processing.
• Utilize Gemba / Tier meetings and production cadences to provide 2-way dialogue bringing forward value stream needs or priorities while highlighting critical issues impacting plant site ability to perform.
• Participate in daily War Room at the RKFD Delivery Command Center and support the CSM Ops Leaders in the plant site monthly commit process.
• Utilize X-Chart information to identify material shortages and create Lines of Balance (LOBs).
• Support and assist in the prioritization of requirements withing the plant sites, e.g., FAIs, QN, etc.
• Coordinate with the other plant site OPMs withing the same Tiger Team to ensure visibility and removal of risk in support of the entire value chain.
• Participate in value stream strategic alignment with Operations Lads, and OCMS.
• Adhere to import, export, and procurement regulations.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 3-5 year(s) of relevant experience (Supply Chain domain).
• Aerospace industry experience.
• SAP and Excel experience.
• Bilingual, able to speak and understand Spanish (Puerto Rican)
• Must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of supply chain management, operations, production planning.
• Exposure to project or program management.
• Exposure to engineering and quality processes.
• Knowledge of various manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge of LEAN.
• An ability to build positive intercompany relationships.
• Outstanding communication and reporting skills.
• An ability to work independently without day-to-say supervision.