Job at a glance
The Supply Chain Manager provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for the shipyard's Purchasing, Planning & Scheduling, and Material Control functions. The position is accountable for aligning procurement, production planning, material availability, inventory control, and logistics with contract requirements, engineering priorities, project budgets, and production schedules. This leader establishes disciplined processes, develops team capability, resolves cross-functional constraints, and delivers clear performance reporting to support safe, efficient, and on-time vessel construction.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities Leadership and Department Management Lead, coach, and coordinate the Purchasing, Planning & Scheduling, and Material Control departments, setting priorities, accountabilities, and performance expectations. Develop department procedures, work standards, staffing plans, training needs, and succession coverage to support current and future project demands. Create an integrated supply chain operating rhythm that connects engineering releases, bills of material, work packages, procurement, receiving, warehousing, kitting, and production need dates.
Escalate material, schedule, cost, quality, and supplier risks promptly, with recovery actions, owners, and required decision dates. Promote a culture of safety, accuracy, urgency, ethical conduct, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Purchasing and Supplier Management Provide oversight of requisitions, RFQs, bid evaluations, purchase orders, approvals, expediting, and procurement records for materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, and subcontracted services.
Ensure purchasing decisions meet technical specifications, quality requirements, approved budgets, required delivery dates, and applicable contractual obligations. Lead supplier sourcing, qualification, negotiation, performance management, and corrective action in coordination with Engineering, Project Management, Production, Quality Control, and Finance. Monitor open and overdue purchase-order commitments, identify long-lead and critical-path items, and implement recovery or alternate-source plans.
Ensure discrepancies involving pricing, invoices, receipts, damaged or unacceptable goods, and supplier performance are resolved and documented. Planning, Scheduling, and Production Control Oversee development, maintenance, and communication of project schedules, work-order structures, work packages, production priorities, engineering need dates, and resource or manning reports. Ensure planning and cost-tracking data is accurate, current, auditable, and aligned with project budgets and production status.
Coordinate schedule interfaces among Engineering, Project Management, Production, Purchasing, Material Control, and Finance to identify and remove bottlenecks. Provide regular analysis of schedule performance, labor utilization, productivity, project hours, material readiness, and emerging constraints. Ensure production teams receive timely drawings, work packages, material status, and actionable schedule information.
Material Control, Inventory, and Logistics Oversee receiving, inspection coordination, warehousing, inventory control, material preservation, issue, kitting, staging, internal movement, shipping, and surplus disposition. Ensure each shipment is accurately received against the proper purchase order, identified, recorded, stored, and communicated to the appropriate stakeholders. Establish controls for project-assigned material, owner-furnished equipment, high-value items, shelf-life material, shortages, substitutions, returns, and nonconforming material.
Maintain material traceability and inventory accuracy through routine audits, cycle counts, reconciliation, and corrective action. Coordinate material priorities and delivery to the point of use in support of production sequence and schedule commitments. Cost, Reporting, Systems, and Improvement Develop and issue concise weekly and monthly r