Siemens Energy

Snapshot of Your Day:

We are looking for a Head of Procurement – Switchgears Americas & Supply Chain Manager in Richland, MS to lead all areas of Supply Chain Management (procurement, materials management, supplier development) for Switchgears Americas Cluster (SGA) cluster.

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

• Define and implement strategies to deliver business objectives in the areas of procurement.
• Drive materials savings thru vendor negotiations and alternate sourcing strategies.
• Define commodity strategy for cluster by bundling commodities.
• Procurement of material as per customer delivery /manufacturing plan for DT Circuit breakers, CPV & live tank breakers considering supplier lead time for standard material.
• Enhance supplier capacity in line with cluster growth (E.g. Jupiter) or delivery constraint.
• Provide support in defining global strategies for various commodities and participate in overseas negotiations.
• Drive localization/regionalization to get price advantages.
• Define alternate source development action to minimize business risk.
• Handle escalation management for material availability.
• Minimize inventory investments without causing inventory stockouts.
• Develop alternate vendors/source to minimize the purchasing related risks considering geopolitical situations.
• Work with engineering team to support engineering design change savings.
• Manage transactional purchasing function and staff to drive efficiencies.
• Work with quality organization to hold supply base responsible for non-conforming materials.
• Work with supply base to reduce lead times and logistic costs.
• Prepare adhoc reporting for both US and German headquarters.
• Act as change agent in procurement.
• Lead overall productivity program (material).
• Work with cross functional teams to deliver superior business results.
• Build, train and motivate teams for SGA cluster.
• 30% domestic/international travel required.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field and 8 years of experience.
• Full term of experience must include: high voltage products;
• SF6 leak proof casting development;
• High voltage products/component development from 72.5 kV - up to 550 kV product;
• Knowledge of high voltage product sub-assemblies & assembly line design and implementation;
• Strategic and operational procurement;
• Operational management & business excellence skills;
• Productivity program management;
• Commodity knowledge required for products like Insulating parts, current transformers, composites insulator;
• Quality management; and
• Vendor development meeting/exceeding IEEE standards.
• 30% domestic and international travel required.
• The position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program.

• To apply, please email resumes to resumes@siemens-energy.com referencing job code: MK/KS.