Responsibilities
- Actively engaged with suppliers and supply chains to support all activities that ensure a continuous flow of parts supply to NA plants
- Able to analyze supplier capacity and supplier investment requests
- Ability to accurately assess supplier weaknesses and provide solutions
- Monitor high risk supplier development issues to prevent crisis at our operations
- Drive and develop supplier problem solving techniques for identified supplier fault issues
- Fix and develop supplier production systems and processes to prevent impact to operations
- Drive supplier operational excellence
- Set focused priorities to reach objectives
- Represent the company at suppliers and escalate as needed to prevent crisis at our operations
Requirements
- Bachelor degree required. Major in engineering or business management or supply chain management preferred
- Supply chain (quality and development) and/or production experience
- 5+ years of experience from the automotive or heavy commercial truck industry in supplier quality and capacity, manufacturing engineering, supplier development or crisis management
- Ability to drive sense of urgency to suppliers focused on information, communication, and results. Provide direct & actionable feedback
- Strong problem solving, communication and teamwork skills
- Strong accountability and project management for tasks without close supervision
- Ability to multitask and manage workload efficiently and effectively
- Ability to drive sense of urgency to suppliers focused on information, communication, and results. Provide direct & actionable feedback
- Customer focused mindset, dedicated to meet external and internal customer expectations
- Flexibility and preparedness to travel with short notice up to 50% of the time
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What We Do
Goken America is an engineering & technology services company that works collaboratively to make a notable difference for its clients, team members, and the communities in which its employees live and work. Goken understands that to achieve real change, its associates must be empowered. They must have the tools to explore and build, and the passion to share empathy and understanding. The key to Goken’s singular business model is the company’s relentless drive to be more than a technical services company. This means that Goken leaders must place uncommon trust and value in the teams and the talent who facilitate the organization’s fearless approach to problem-solving and client engagement. To uncover the root causes of workforce issues, faltering production cycles, and other challenges, empowered Goken associates take the time to immerse themselves in client cultural underpinnings. Then, Goken adds competitive value with a multi-dimensional approach that requires more than simply adding human capital. Instead, striking the perfect balance between a customer’s wants and needs, Goken infuses change techniques with technology; skills training with organizational development; and staffing projects with managed services. Rather than a blueprint of static deliverables, Goken is a nimble provider of engineering and technology solutions that, because they are sustainable and repeatable, accelerate product development and deliver clients the advantage of time. Time to get ahead of the competition. Time to focus on business development. Time to innovate and shape trends. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Goken has been making a difference for clients in the automotive, medical device, and aerospace industries since 2004. Learn more at www.goken-global.com Check out our youtube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdDGdBxEwzg95OO3QQFEjhw
