Supplier Delivery Leader

• Beehive Industries is dedicated to

  Powering American Defense

  by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Centennial, Colorado facility.

Role Overview

The Supplier Delivery Leader will establish and manage supplier delivery commitments, monitor performance, identify risks, and drive recovery actions to ensure the right material is available at the right time to support production. This role will work closely with Procurement Buyers, Supply Chain Planning, Assembly, Manufacturing Programs, Engineering, Quality, and suppliers to proactively manage schedule changes, constraints, shortages, and delivery risks.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, analytical, persistent, and comfortable across external and internal teams to drive accountability and results. This position requires the ability to understand the assembly build plan, material requirements, supplier lead times, capacity constraints, and production priorities.

What You’ll Do...

• Serve as the primary Procurement contact for supplier delivery issues affecting Assembly and Operations.

• Partner with Assembly and Manufacturing Programs to understand daily and weekly production priorities.

• Participate in production readiness and build-plan reviews.

• Identify material shortages that could impact assembly schedules and coordinate recovery and problem-solving actions

• Work with Buyers to determine appropriate commercial or supplier actions.

• Partner with Quality and Engineering when quality or technical issues are contributing to supplier delays.

• Provide clear communication regarding supplier delivery status, risks, and recovery plans.

• Own on-time delivery performance across commodities and suppliers

• Monitor supplier performance against committed delivery dates, quantities, and priorities.

• Proactively identify late, at-risk, and potentially constrained purchase orders before they impact production.

• Escalate significant delivery risks and recurring supplier performance issues to Beehive leadership.

• Develop and maintain supplier delivery scorecards and performance metrics; identify performance trends and recurring issues

• Track On-Time Delivery (OTD), schedule attainment, past-due orders, commitment accuracy, recovery performance, and responsiveness.

Assembly Build Plan & Schedule Alignment

• Develop a strong understanding of the company's master production schedule, assembly build plan, and near-term production priorities.

• Maintain visibility to open orders, past-due orders, and future demand.

Delivery Risk & Recovery Management

• Proactively identify supplier delivery risks before they become production shortages.

• Develop and execute supplier recovery plans for late or at-risk material.

• Determine root causes of delivery issues, including capacity, labor, material shortages, quality issues, tooling constraints, scheduling, transportation, or supplier planning.

• Drive daily or weekly recovery actions for critical suppliers and parts.

• Utilize supplier visits, escalation meetings, production reviews, and other tools to recover critical deliveries.

Capacity & Supply Constraint Management

• Work with Procurement Buyers and Supply Chain Planning to identify capacity gaps.

• Develop mitigation strategies such as schedule adjustments, capacity increases, alternate suppliers, tooling investments, stocking strategies, or purchase order actions.

• Identify long-lead and constrained components that require proactive management.

• Participate in production readiness and build-plan reviews.

• Identify material shortages that could impact assembly schedules and coordinate recovery and problem-solving actions

• Work with Buyers to determine appropriate commercial or supplier actions.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve supplier delivery processes, planning methods, and communication.

• Develop standard processes for supplier commitment management, expediting, escalation, and recovery.

• Improve visibility of supplier delivery performance through dashboards and reporting.

• Identify opportunities to improve MRP parameters, lead times, safety stock, order policies, and supplier planning inputs.

• Reduce reliance on reactive expediting through proactive supplier management.

You have...

• Minimum qualifications a candidate must hold to be considered. Keep these defensible and job-related.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.

Experience

• At least 5-7 years relevant experience in procurement, production control, manufacturing, supply chain planning, or supplier management role

Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of procurement processes, production requirements, and supplier management

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, take risks, and drive action

• Demonstrated ability to drive execution, solve problems in real time, and operate under pressure

• Strong cross functional leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence without direct authority

• Proven experience operating in a plant environment with direct impact on production and delivery performance

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Nice to have..

• Strong leadership capabilities with a proactive and hands-on approach

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

• Detail-oriented with a focus on continuous improvement

• Ability to adapt to change and support the team in managing transformation

This could be the opportunity you are looking for to expand your skills, contribute to a winning team, and work with talented people who love what they do and take pride in our mission.

In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this position is $140,000-$175,000 base salary. Please note that wage information is a general guideline only, and we will consider factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, and market conditions when extending an offer.

• group Medical, Dental, Life,and Short and Long-Term disability coverage from day one.
• We also offer a generous 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a Company match.Every role at Beehive Industries is bonus eligible and will also receive equity in the company.

Beehive Industries is committed to full compliance with applicable anti-discrimination laws. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We strive to create an inclusive work environment and will not discriminateon the basis ofrace, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.