Supply Chain Engineer

Job Overview

Supply Chain Engineer 2 – (93811-1).

Location:

Pontiac, IL. Contract Duration: 12 months.

Manage inbound and outbound logistics management to ensure the timely and efficient receipt and delivery of materiel to activity points along the material flow path. Ensure adherence to corporate policies and practices by working effectively with appropriate functional areas to maintain a high‑velocity material flow.

• Perform activities to ensure material is shipped, received, stored or delivered quickly and efficiently.
• Provide logistics management, analysis and support of inbound and outbound material flow.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts to eliminate excess inventory, manage materials to PFEP‑defined flowpaths, support transportation requirements for the customer, determine appropriate mode and carrier, monitor carrier performance, determine root cause and take corrective action, decrease transportation costs, reduce premium freight expense, improve carrier quality and container scheduling and availability, and manage business unit or facility logistics activities.
• Provide support and assistance to business unit or facility groups to resolve transportation issues.
• Provide overall management of facility freight expenses, including filing carrier loss and damaged freight claims and monitoring, analyzing and performing root‑cause corrective actions to resolve freight non‑compliance issues.
• Collaborate with material suppliers, transportation carriers, import/export companies, 3rd‑party logistics providers, subassembly and kitting operations, packaging engineers, shipping and receiving personnel, product order analysts, material planning and requirements personnel, and employees at product distribution centers.

• Manage manufacturing change information and assign effective dates, checking the timely receipt and completeness of records prepared by product design, and distributing and maintaining engineering data.
• Address issues dealing with engineering design and change implementation requirements within the Job Readiness System (JRS).
• Create, maintain, and communicate accurate change‑management data at both local and corporate levels through data entry in the Pontiac MFG Pro system.
• Analyze engineering releases, changes, drawing notices to create change‑management requirements and provide the creation of product structure based on engineering design within EDS.
• Review and ensure proper release of engineering information within NPI programs.
• Facilitate meetings to assure that changes or model introductions are properly monitored.
• Manage the completion of own work assignments and coordinate work with others.
• Primary customers are internal to the plant.
• Track build readiness in alignment with EBS and planned SOL dates.
• Responsible for BoM validations to ensure released ERP Revision alignment to PRB Revision.

• Requires a technical college or university degree in an appropriate manufacturing or engineering‑related field or equivalent external experience in releasing engineering changes and/or NPI into a production environment.
• 2–4 years of experience.

• Strong team player with good organizational, interpersonal skills, ability to prioritize tasks combined with good written, spoken technical communication.
• Previous client work experience is a plus.
• Understanding of engineering records, manufacturing releasing, materials scheduling, and engineering manufacturing change control procedures normally gained through a minimum of 1‑year experience as a PCC, ME, or related field.

• Supply chain planning.
• Understanding of material flow.
• Understanding basic supply chain and MRP principles.

• Excel, Word, MS Access, Power BI, Data analytics.

• Travel requirement:
  None.
• Export Control Requirements:
  No.