Supply Chain Engineer

Supply Chain Engineer

Location: Clayton, North Carolina

Typical Task Breakdown:

• Lead the identification and delivery of integrated supply chain solutions and performance improvements, building strong internal and external partnerships to drive stability and growth.
• Strengthen demandcapacity alignment through effective collaboration with Category Purchasing, suppliers, and internal functions, ensuring best-practice ways of working.
• Apply industry benchmarks and capacity scenario modelling to optimize supplier capability and inform strategic sourcing decisions.
• Analyze supply chain data to prioritize improvement opportunities, enhance inventory utilization, and build cost-effective, resilient supply networks.
• Provide expert demand and capacity management support using NPE (Network Planning & Execution) Tool, Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), and capacity collaboration tools to stabilize supplier performance.
• Lead supplier performance routines including monthly reviews, structured problem solving, and Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) for capacity-related challenges.
• Identifying, defining, leading implementation of integrated supply chain solutions and performance improvements, including building internal and external alliances to explore opportunities.
• Establishing and strengthening effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with business partners and internal functions.
• Investigating and incorporating industry benchmarks, metrics and best practices to develop optimal supply chains for suppliers and/or product sets.
• Leads the development and analyzes data and information to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving performance and creating more cost-effective supply chains, inventory utilization, and business partnerships.

Education & Experience Required:

• Years of experience: 3+ years with 2 years of educational/internship experience
• Degree requirement: Bachelors degree in supply chain management, Engineering, or related field or equivalent level of work experience
• Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
• Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: No

Top 3 Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Ability to effectively manage relationships with internal and external partners.

Additional Technical Skills

(Required)

• Experience in capacity planning processes, NPE demand expertise, and supplier collaboration.
• Knowledge of Lean methodology and problem-solving tools.
• Ensures compliance with industry standards, regulations and policies.
• Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.

(Desired)

• MBA degree or Advance Business Degree
• Lean Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• Experience in Value Stream Mapping.