Manufacturing Manager - Materials, Planning and Execution
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About the Role
GE Vernova seeks a Manufacturing Manager to lead the Materials team in an engineer-to-order Grid equipment factory. The role owns inventory turns, working capital, and material availability, requiring 5+ years of material management experience and hands-on SAP/MRP expertise.
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Responsibilities
- Drive a zero tolerance environment for safety infractions
- Lead weekly meetings and cross functional planning sessions with engineering, production, contracts, and finance stakeholders
- Lead, develop, and motivate a team of buyers, planners and inventory control analysts; maintain performance management, objective setting and scorecards
- Ensure materials/production planning, buying, and inventory control support sales, product development, customer service, and production cost effectively
- Plan, organize, direct and support, monitor and control the staff and functions related to planning materials, buying and inventory control
- Continuously review and monitor departmental performance to ensure corporate objectives are being met; review actions, risks, and shortages, and drive forecasting and material planning to protect the production schedule
- Manage the end to end supply chain, including materials/consumables suppliers, logistics service providers, and contract manufacturers; develop risk mitigation strategies
- Identify performance deficiencies and opportunities for improvement; take initiative to solve problems and realize opportunities
- Identify specific cost reduction opportunities and take action to achieve cost reductions, including introducing alternative sources where appropriate
- Work effectively with the Production Manager to develop and maintain efficient planning and operations in production, warehousing and materials handling
- Drive for continuous inventory improvement and implement best practice models to ensure targets are achieved
- Champion sustainability and ESG initiatives within the supply chain, supporting environmental practices such as packaging reduction
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field; master’s degree or APICS/SCMP certification preferred
- 5+ years’ material management experience in a manufacturing setting
- Strong logistics, supply chain, and material management skills; exposure to JIT, Kanban, MRP, and Lean manufacturing
- Contract manufacturing / outsourced (EMS/CM) forecasting and supply management experience
- Hands on technical depth: SAP, Excel, VBA, Power Query, Smartsheet. Able to build, maintain, document, and troubleshoot tools and processes.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams and setting/meeting aggressive targets
- Self motivated, high energy, results oriented; forward thinking and proactive
- Flexible and adaptable: Open to change and modification of tasks
- Operational finance knowledge
- Proven ability to drive change in a matrix environment
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Role Overview
- Reporting to the Plant Leader, this role will lead the Materials team to define and continuously improve material flow across an engineer to order Grid equipment factory operating in a Lean Manufacturing environment.
- The role owns inventory turns, working capital landing, and material availability, and is accountable for the planning, procurement, material MRP setup, and analytics systems that drive them.
- The successful candidate combines outstanding cross functional leadership with hands on technical fluency in SAP, MRP, and work automation and analysis toolsets.
Essential Responsibilities
- Drive a zero tolerance environment for safety infractions.
- Lead weekly meetings and cross functional planning sessions with engineering, production, contracts, and finance stakeholders; communicate priorities clearly across all organizational levels.
- Lead, develop, and motivate a team of buyers, planners and inventory control analysts, maintain performance management, objective setting and scorecards.
- Ensure materials/production planning, buying, and inventory control support sales, product development, customer service, and production cost effectively.
- Plan, organize, direct and support, monitor and control the staff and functions related to planning materials, buying and inventory control.
- Continuously review and monitor departmental performance to ensure corporate objectives are being met. Review actions, risks, and shortages, and drive forecasting and material planning to protect the production schedule.
- Manage the end to end supply chain, including materials/consumables suppliers, logistics service providers, and contract manufacturers; develop risk mitigation strategies (dual sourcing, safety stock optimization) to ensure supply continuity.
- Identify any performance deficiencies and problems or opportunities for improvement in these areas of responsibility and take initiative to solve the problems and realize the opportunities.
- Identify specific cost reduction opportunities and take action to achieve cost reductions, or improve cost effectiveness, including introducing alternative sources where appropriate.
- Work effectively in co operation with the Production Manager to develop and maintain efficient planning and operations in production, warehousing and materials handling.
- Drive for continuous inventory improvement and implement best practice models to ensure targets are achieved.
- Champion sustainability and ESG initiatives within the supply chain, supporting environmental practices such as packaging reduction.
Qualifications/Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field; master’s degree or APICS/SCMP certification preferred.
- 5+ years’ material management experience in a manufacturing setting.
- Strong logistics, supply chain, and material management skills; exposure to JIT, Kanban, MRP, and Lean manufacturing.
- Contract manufacturing / outsourced (EMS/CM) forecasting and supply management experience.
- Hands on technical depth: SAP, Excel, VBA, Power Query, Smartsheet. Able to build, maintain, document, and troubleshoot tools and processes.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams and setting/meeting aggressive targets.
- Self motivated, high energy, results oriented; forward thinking and proactive.
- Flexible and adaptable: Open to change and modification of tasks.
- Operational finance knowledge.
- Proven ability to drive change in a matrix environment.
- Ability to successfully motivate and maintain employee involvement while driving change.
Desired Characteristics
- Ability to translate complex supply chain data into clear executive level presentations and stakeholder communications.
- Experience navigating supplier negotiations in volatile commodity markets or constrained supply environments.
- Strong root cause analysis skills applied to supply disruptions, quality escapes, and delivery failures.
- Track record of leading cross functional supply chain improvement projects (e.g., ERP migrations, warehouse redesigns, supplier consolidation).
- Familiarity with demand sensing, predictive analytics, or AI driven planning tools.
- Knowledge of sustainability frameworks and experience integrating ESG criteria into supplier selection.
Additional Information
- Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
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