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Job Location - 21000 Telegraph Rd, Southfield, Michigan, United States of America, 48933

Job Description – Integrated Equipment:

• Host weekly meetings with supplier and project teams to discuss review open issues matrix
• Monitor milestone matrix and/or timeline to ensure design and build milestones are met
• Coordinate with those responsible for any free issue material to ensure material gets to supplier in timely manner
• Schedule site visits periodically to check on progress and review equipment throughout the duration of the project
• Collect paperwork for items that have shipped and not posted and submit to Share Point for receipt

Outsource Material:

• Review in process material to ensure timely delivery
• Proactively review upcoming workload with supplier and provide feedback to purchasing on performance
• Coordinate with those responsible for any free issue material to ensure material gets to supplier in timely manner
• Coordinate with design for any engineering issues (Missing or Wrong Dims, Material Specs, Weld Specs, etc)
• Schedule site visits periodically to check on progress and review equipment throughout the duration of the project
• Collect paperwork for items that have shipped and not posted and submit to Share Point for receipt

Additional Responsibilities:

• Attend customer meetings and whiteboards to provide supplier material status updates
• Drive the negotiation of improvements in quality, workmanship and timing with suppliers
• Ensure compliance to corporate sourcing policy and procedures
• Perform and participate in supplier evaluation, qualification and provide input to manage risks related to the suppliers
• Assist in problem solving efforts for all systematic supplier related non-conformities
• Collect quantitative supplier information to prepare reports focusing on supplier performance and effectiveness of their operations against Comau’s metrics
• Provide training and feedback to suppliers and lead the efforts to implement steps to continuously improve supplier performance
• Support internal supplier development and supplier quality teams

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of purchasing and/or material management experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem solving capabilities
• Ability to work within a team-based environment
• Ability to execute to a plan
• Committed and dedicated to the success of a program
• Ability to read, interpret and communicate prints, specifications and dimensional tolerances
• Strong working knowledge of local supply base
• Fair working knowledge of global supply base
• Expansive working knowledge on multiple commodities
• Fair financial management skills
• Clear understanding of project timelines
• Microsoft office (Excel, Word, Power Point) – Advanced skills required

Preferred Requirements:

• Strong working knowledge of project based organizations
• Strong collaborative skills with suppliers and internal team members
• Appetite for accountability
• Strong understanding of budgeting and forecasting (financially on the project and with the supply base)
• Ability to multi-task and work from remote locations
• SAP Experience
• Project Management Experience
• BA in business, logistics, supply chain, or engineering