Supply Chain Operations Manager

Your role and your team:

We are looking for an ambitious and experienced Supply Chain Operations Manager working closely with Lilium Senior Program Leadership, Logistics, Quality, Design, and Manufacturing Engineering as well as major suppliers to ensure program objectives are met and stay on schedule. You will be responsible for the entire operational supply chain activities for aircraft suppliers which are within your scope.

Your Day to Day:

• Work in a cross-functional team to identify and assess potential suppliers.
• Lead selected suppliers towards industrialization of new products.
• Act as a project manager towards the supplier and take responsibility for supplier schedule, capacity and change implementation.
• Actively contribute to the cross-functional team that will:
• Drive APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) activities at Suppliers.
• Implement data collection at the supplier for transparency on quality and production performance.
• Ensure the readiness of the supply base by launching capability assessments as well as capacity audits at relevant suppliers.
• Ensure compliance to the international regulations and customs processes.
• Work with the Supply Chain Quality Team to ensure that the supply chain will comply to all necessary quality standards of EASA 21G, EN9100 and PMA 21 (that enables the supplier to issue a 8130-3 certificate).
• Implement proper risk management to avoid any disruption to the supply of items and program delays.
• Drive recovery actions internally and at suppliers in case of non-performance.
• Partake in the deployment of the supply chain control tower with visual monitoring of the performance and risks in the supply chain.
• Ensure all internal root causes for supplier non-performance (e.g. demand, technical specifications) are identified swiftly and addressed in an efficient collaborative way.
• Lead by example with uncompromising business ethics and respect for people.

Your Profile:

Required:

• Minimum qualifications / education: Bachelor of Engineering and/or Business Administration Degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in supply chain or technical project management roles out of which 2 in a similar position within a technology driven industry (ex. automotive, aerospace).
• Excellent communications and leadership maturity. Ability to build trust and consensus and secure commitment from all team members. Willingness to take risks in decision making.
• Can-do mindset, ability to understand and analyze a problem and come up with solutions.
• Eager to learn and adopt his/her style to a rapidly changing environment; puts the team first; robust and passionate to follow given objectives; uses failure as learning experience.
• Willingness to travel within USA as well as worldwide
• Fluent in English (German and/or Spanish would be useful)

Beneficial:

• Understanding of aerospace manufacturing processes relating to composites and metallic materials.
• Fluent in German

Miscellaneous:

• 401k is not offered at this time
• 20 days vacation
• Bank holidays 
  • New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous People’s Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Day
• No transfer / relocation package offered
• Preferred location: Dallas TX. Other locations: Florida, DC, California, and Virginia
• Candidate must have the right to live and work legally in the USA (either GC or citizen)
• Working remote/working from home - extensive travel required 

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