Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Implementation Engineers is seeking contract consultants and full-time employees to support projects re-engineering supply chain functions. The successful candidate will lead teams to guide clients through structured processes and re-engineer supply chain support processes to achieve business results.
Responsibilities
- Guide our clients through a structured process that deals with resources, decision-making, resistance identification and resolution, conflict management, skills enhancement, organizational development, metrics and performance results, coaching, mentoring and behavioral change
- Capture/Clarify/Align the strategic business objectives of our clients by creating a 3 to 5-year deployment plan that will quantify our clients’ current state and create a road map to address gaps where objectives are not being achieved
- Re-engineer supply chain support processes as required to achieve business results
- Sustain improvements through system implementation, including visual management, layered standard work, audits and more
- Develop an internal management culture to sustain improvement initiatives and work to interact and sell continued opportunities at all levels of the organization, especially with senior management and executives
- Act as a Change Agent by supporting clients in adopting and sustaining improvements through clear communication, coaching, and engagement, following Implementation Engineers’ change management best practices
- Apply Project Management Best Practices to plan, execute, and monitor project activities using IE’s standard delivery processes and tools
- Operate Within IE Governance and Standards, including: Maintaining an up-to-date and actively managed project plan; Following established change management processes; Ensuring consistent, proactive communication with key stakeholders
- Maintain Program Transparency by keeping project documentation current, organized, and accessible within IE’s Program Collaboration Workspace
- Leverage IE Governance Tools such as Smartsheet and Microsoft Teams for effective planning, tracking, collaboration, and reporting
Skills
- Must be an expert in multiple disciplines, including ERP, procurement, production planning, BOM and/or configuration management, shop floor scheduling, forecasting, inventory management and optimization, inventory reduction, warehousing and logistics, shipping and receiving
- Ideal candidates are seasoned supply chain professionals who have successfully identified, led, and managed high-impact improvement projects both operationally and organizationally
- Experience with strong written and verbal communication skills with C-level executives
- BS degree in Industrial Engineering or similar technical discipline
- Minimum 10+ years of supply chain operations, plus an additional 5 years in complex manufacturing, production or similar (e.g. fabrication + assembly)
- Prior consulting experience required (internal or external consulting)
- Strong business acumen, financial analysis, and client relationship skills
- Travel required (various clients site's)
- Experience with SAP ERP and/or Oracle Supply Chain/Demand Planning and Master Data Management experience
- Previous Lean, inventory reduction and optimization, and planning
- Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean certifications
- Experience with SQL, excellent data analysis and statistical skills
- APICS certification
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