Supply Chain Family (Bands G,F,E)

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), headquartered in Sterling Heights, Michigan, is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. GDLS provides a full spectrum of land and amphibious combat systems, subsystems, and components worldwide. The company designs and builds armored vehicles and subsystems for the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and international customers, and is the defense industry's largest supplier of armored military vehicles.



Description of Work:
Serve as Supply Chain Management Department Interface with Program Office and Program Teams relative to identification and release of Material requirements and program/contract support.

Major activities include ensuring that program and contract milestones are met relative to material support tasks and hardware deliveries to ensure material sales and program/contract schedule and milestones are met.
Basic responsibilities include:
Support Integrated Product Development Teams; Production Program Teams; Proposal Development Teams, Prototype Build Teams, Process Action Teamsrepresenting Material Acquisition;
Serve as Material liaison and serve as Material representative for all Material-related activities;
Interface with GDLS (internal) Teams and often with external (customer) Teams.

Drive early identification of BOM and make/buy decisions to support development of purchase order placement schedules. Perform lead-time setback analysis and
develop material (hardware) release schedules to prioritize engineering release of product definition and initiation of material requisitions.
Drive timely engineering release to support timely procurement.

Develop, maintain, and publish status reports to monitor material releases, purchase order placement and hardware delivery status; identify necessary corrective actions in concert with Program Office, Engineering, product teams and various material departments and ensure timely implementation; assess effectiveness of corrective action efforts and communicate exceptions/issues to leadership team and upper management for timely resolution to ensure program schedules and requirements are met.

Attend Program meetings and serve as Material representative; types of meetings include: Design Reviews (internal and external), Program Management and
Status meetings, Build Team meetings for shortage identification and resolution, proposal development and strategy meetings;

Chair program briefings with Supply Chain Management to communicate program requirements, schedules, and priorities and to identify impact to Material Organization;

Responsible to develop meeting agenda and format and present to peers, supervision, and executive level.

Rarticipate on Proposal Development Teams and pricing exercises; support division Op Plan Development regarding material support required for programs for the forecasting period involved; requires strong communication skills and interface with program office and other teams.

Conduct working level hardware status reviews with Procurement personnel and management to ensure program requirements and priorities are understood;
Conduct/chair meetings as required with Material Acquisition personnel to expedite necessary actions.

Job Requirements:
- Travel Required
- Strong Verbal Presentation Skills
- Strong Written Communication Skills
- Team Skills
- Experience in Project / Program management desirable
- MRP II /ERP Experience Desired
- Microsoft Office Suite Skills (Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- BiQuery/Discover skills desired (Data warehouse)
- Self Directed
- US Citizenship

Required Education:
BA
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General Dynamics Land Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer