S & C Electric Company Looking for Senior Manager-Supply Chain and Logistics at Toronto, ON Full Time

As a leader at S&C, you will have a variety of responsibilities in the areas of overall leadership, supply chain and logistics management, production planning, and overall management.

Leadership

• Hold their team members and leaders accountable, and coach to ensure goals are met and team members continue to develop their skills.
• Maintain open and effective communications within the organization’s workgroup(s) and other work groups.
• Be a strategic partner to internal customers to discover fresh solutions, resulting in commercial and operational success.
• Empower managers to achieve weekly, monthly, and annual targets in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity, Cost, and Human Development.
• Serve as a change agent by influencing, communicating, and institutionalizing a culture of simplification, accountability, standard work, process improvement, and lean principles.
• Ensure positive team member relations by living our core values and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Identify training and skill development opportunities for team members to meet team needs and that align with our competency framework (“Career Framework”).
• Initiate and approve decisions related to hiring, promotions, performance, engagement, corrective action, dispute resolution, and terminations.

Supply Chain

• Design the supply chain strategy in conjunction with other departments that help improve S&C’s value proposition to our customers.
• Establish performance metrics for measuring, comparing, or evaluating factors affecting the supply chain.
• Ensure the required quantity of supplies and materials to optimize production are available in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Monitor the performance of suppliers, assessing their ability to meet quality and delivery requirements; identify and qualify new suppliers in collaboration with other departments.
• Act as an escalation point to expedite delivery or address supplier issues.
• Collaborate with other departments and stakeholders to identify and maintain resources needed to establish and provide an effective supply chain.
• Participate as a product development team advisory member, providing information and guidance on the availability and cost of supplies and materials impacts as part of the team coordinating engineering changes, product line extensions, or new product launches to ensure timely and orderly material and production flow transitions.

Logistics

• Manage all aspects of S&C’s logistics function to ensure that products and materials are controlled, delivered, and distributed safely, on time, and within budget.
• Maintain a high level of quality, on-time shipments to both internal and external customers.
• Implement an overall strategy, metrics, and processes to deploy an optimized logistics network and operations.
• Ensure the team has complied with all regulations governing the transportation of goods and has identified optimal shipment and transportation routes.

Production Planning

• Assume accountability for Production Planning department forecasting and capacity planning to hit targets.
• Keep an open line of communication with the planning group, operations managers, and sourcing to prioritize and communicate on supply planning manufacturing issues (demand vs. supply planning gaps, backorder issues, unplanned events).
• Drive solutions to reduce and eliminate any short or long-term gaps in supply plans.

Improvement

• Identify and solve operational issues with the account(s) by implementing continuous improvement and LEAN initiatives to strengthen team unity, goals, productivity, and results.
• Utilize analytics to monitor and measure performance, identify problems in operations and achieve high performance at optimal costs
• Develop new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to support the strategy.
• Lead the analysis of current inventories and procedures to suggest improvements to increase the efficiency of the supply chain and profitability for S&C.
• Develop and implements policies to increase efficiency throughout the supply chain while ensuring quality and safety.
• Initiate and participate in Lean Production Systems and Continuous Improvement initiatives (LPS/CI).
• Create, maintain and report production status through meaningful visuals such as KPI boards, Strategic A3s and Hour-by-Hour Boards.
• Conduct regular Gemba walks with team leader(s) and other leadership team members.

Safety

• Promote a safety culture and takes all reasonable precautions to protect team members from illness or injury.
• Investigate and report on safety incidents.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Degree in business, engineering, operations, supply chain, or related field or combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience and five years in high and low-volume complex manufacturing environments, Supply Chain, Logistics, or industry-related fields.
• Demonstrated track record of lean manufacturing leadership, sustained improvements, and KPI attainment
• Proven track record of team member development, team building, and change management skills to coach, mentor, and empower team members throughout the organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with a proven ability to create and maintain positive working relationships with vendors, suppliers, shippers, and customers.
• Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills.

S&C is a global company providing equipment and services for electric power systems. Founded in 1911, the Chicago-based company designs and manufactures switching and protection products for electric power transmission and distribution. S&C’s Engineering teams design solutions for a portfolio of products for a wide range of customers including electric utilities and industrial/commercial power users. S&C offers broad opportunities for advancement, excellent education and training programs, a challenging work environment, and a strong package of pay and benefits.

The Human Energy of S&C has been built on the principles of integrity, enthusiasm, and sustained energy. These are the traits that S&C has always looked for and found when seeking people to join our 100% employee-owned team. S&C would not be where it is today without the diversity of our team members and business partners. We consider our diversity to be a core strength of our company, and we aspire to align our team-member demographics with the populations in which we live and work. To realize this vision, we seek to facilitate the career development of minorities, women and all team members through events hosted by our Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement and Awareness (I.D.E.A.) Group, Women’s Empowerment Group and other S&C affinity groups.