Supply Chain Manager
Prysmian Group
Abbeville, South Carolina
Ensure all Supply Chain work is performed accurately and timely:
- Routine monitoring of actual volume by major product group.
- Routine calculations of lead times, equipment efficiencies, and rolling volume projections by major product group.
- Administration of an accurate finite schedule for all pacemakers.
- Provide guidance to Supervisors and Managers on flow, inventory, rework, and any other actions as needed.
- Maintain accurately dated production orders.
- Disposition non-conforming product and follow up to ensure it is released, scrapped, cross-applied, reworked, and/or remade as instructed.
- Monitor slow-moving, surplus, and obsolete inventory to ensure it is properly consumed, scrapped, re-worked, cross-applied, and/or reserved by Finance as needed.
- True-up raw material inventories in system.
- Plan raw material and subassembly needs and provide purchase orders to suppliers.
- Follow up on open purchase orders as needed with suppliers.
- Physical and systematic Receiving, Packaging, finished goods and customer-owned inventory management, and Shipping.
- Safe work environment and behaviors at all levels.
- Adherence to Collective Bargaining Agreement and Rules of Conduct.
- Robust cross-training within team.
- Present delivery and inventory topics as appropriate at daily tier meetings.
- Direct supervision of one (1) DC Manager, (2) Supply Chain Schedulers, and three (3) Supply Chain Planners.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Strong leadership skills, including a drive to develop continuous improvement strategies and execute them to deliver results.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrates “lean” thinking by driving continuous improvements in areas directly and indirectly associated with Supply Chain.
- High degree of computer skills such as Microsoft Office and SAP.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for a broad audience ranging from executives to blue collar team members.
- Self-managed work style, with attention to details and understanding of both manufacturing and business principles.
- At least five years of experience in production scheduling, raw material planning, or freight planning is required.
- Four-year degree in a business or technical field is preferred.
- Use of a finite scheduling system is preferred.
- Working knowledge of Lean and Six-Sigma tools is preferred.
- Fast-paced and hectic work environment where speed, accuracy, and multi-tasking is required routinely.
- Regular electronic interaction with internal and external business partners at all levels of the organization.
- Job can require frequent, unexpected overtime and the need to be available to address problems timely 24/7 to support continuous operation of the factory.
About the Company
Prysmian Group
Prysmian is world leader of the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, with some 19,000 employees across 50 countries worldwide.
Prysmian Group operates 10 plants in North America serving the telecom and energy markets. The Group consists of Prysmian and Draka, two of the strongest and most respected commercial brands in the industry, whose highly complementary products and services meet the needs for two distinct sectors: Telecom Cables & Systems produces optical fibers, optical cables and connectivity for video, data and voice transmission. Prysmian Group has two fiber optic manufacturing facilities in the United States covering 1.5 million square feet, including the only co-located fiber and cable facility in North America.
In our energy business, we design and produce cables and systems for the transmission and distribution of low, medium, high and extra high voltage systems. In 2009, Prysmian built the only Vertical Continuous Vulcanization line in North America in the Abbeville, SC plant. This facility is used to produce insulated high voltage cables. In addition, the group has a manufacturing facility in Prescott, Ontario to meet Canada’s power cabling needs.
A key factor in managing the Group's business is attention to sustainable development and the environment. As part of its activities, the Prysmian Group is involved in implementing management and production processes which help improve environmental sustainability and safety at work, in accordance with the guidelines of its HSE policy.