Supply Chain Manager

Block Engineering manufactures and sells lasers and analytical instruments for security, life sciences, and defense applications. Block is headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts in the greater Boston metro area.

Block is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to oversee the company’s supply chain operations, including purchasing and inventory of raw materials, selection of vendors, and distribution of finished goods. The Supply Chain Manager will also manage existing inventory and forecast future needs.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Coordinate all supply chain activities including purchasing materials, products, equipment and services, supplier quality, and warehouse management.
  • Develop new supplier sources and have ability to negotiate better terms and prices while maintaining superior supplier relationships.
  • Plan and analyze demand and supply to create inventory stocking plans to ensure material availability to meet material lead time requirements.
  • Using Block’s ERP system, purchase electronic and electro-mechanical components, tools, and supplies with best price, quality and services for builds.
  • Maintain the ERP system including ensuring BOMs are input and kept up to date.
  • Assure component specification compliance with supplier quality and delivery performance.
  • Recommend purchasing policies, guidelines, and procedures while working closely with cross-functional groups on NPI and Project Management.
  • Manage inventory status including cycle counts, forecast, min/max and safety stock while reconciling inventory discrepancies and adjustments with AP.
  • Prepare, process, and approve purchase requisitions and purchase orders as well as engineering change orders for materials and services.
  • Manage supplier performance to ensure high quality, on-time delivery, and cost-effective materials and services.
  • Monitor ongoing compliance with purchasing policies and procedures.
  • Oversee and track deliveries to customers, including international shipments.

The ideal candidate will have most of the following qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience with purchasing, sourcing and inventory management within a manufacturing environment.
  • International shipping, customs, transportation, and compliance experience.
  • Experience in sourcing electronic and mechanical parts.
  • Ability to read mechanical drawings.
  • Experience using purchasing and inventory modules in an ERP system (for example, Infor, Oracle, SAP, Epicor).
  • Excellent decision making, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills.

Block Engineering is an equal opportunity employer.

To apply, please email resumes to careers@blockeng.com. Thank you for your interest.