About the Role
Serve as Supply Chain Management Department Interface with Program Office and Program Teams relative to identification and release of Material requirements and program/contract support for aftermarket, production, and engineering.
Major activities include
Ensuring that program and contract milestones are met relative to material support tasks and Master Scheduling of end item deliverables to ensure financial performance objectives and program/contract schedule and commitments are met.
Company Information
General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.
What We Offer
Whether you are starting your career or an experienced professional, we offer a Total Rewards package that is impactful and built for you.

• Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending.
• Competitive base pay, incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits.
• 401k Match (6%).
• Educational Assistance.
• Hybrid work schedule may be available.
• 9-80 Work Schedule (This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off).
• On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment.
• Onsite Cafeteria, remodeled with new equipment Fitness Center, and Outdoor fitness track.

Responsibilities to Anticipate for this role

• Support Integrated Product Development Teams;
• Production Program and Support Services Teams;
• Oracle MRP Independent Demand and Dependent Demand Planning and Analysis (Master Scheduling);
• Proposal Development Teams, Build Teams, Process Action Teams representing Supply Chain Management (SCM);
• Serve as SCM liaison and Project Management representative for all Material-related activities;
• Interface with GDLS (internal) Teams and with external (customer) Teams.
• Drive early identification of BOM and make/buy decisions to support development of purchase order placement schedules. Perform lead-time setback analysis and develop material (hardware) release schedules to prioritize Production & Engineering release of product definition to drive timely release to support timely procurement.
• Develop, maintain, and publish status reports to monitor material releases, purchase order placement and hardware delivery status; identify necessary corrective actions in concert with Program Office & Financial Organization, product teams and various SCM departments to ensure timely implementation; assess effectiveness of corrective action efforts and communicate exceptions / issues to leadership team and upper management for timely resolution to ensure program schedules and requirements are met.
• Attend Program meetings and serve as SCM representative; Types of meetings include: Design Reviews (internal and external), Program Management and Status meetings, Build Team meetings for shortage identification and resolution, proposal development and strategy meetings;
• Chair program briefings with Supply Chain Management to communicate program requirements, schedules, and priorities and to identify impact to SCM Organization;
• Responsible to develop meeting agenda and prepare presentations to present to peers, supervision, and executive leadership.
• Support Proposal Development teams representing SCM. Support pricing exercises; engage in division Op Plan Development regarding material support required for programs for the forecasting period involved; develop and present SCM metrics; requires strong communication skills and interface with program office and other teams including, Lead Support Cross Functional teams, LSS, WSA and Continuous Improvement teams.
• Conduct working level hardware status reviews with Procurement personnel and management to ensure program requirements and priorities are understood;
Conduct / chair meetings as required with Supply Chain Management personnel to expedite necessary actions

• Qualifications Sought
• Bachelor’s degree with 7 to 10 years of overall professional experience with a minimum of 5 years of experience in one of the following areas
• Compliance to DoD Certified Business Systems
• Strong MRP / ERP planning skills and experience a plus
• Cognos Enterprise Reporting (Data warehouse) is a plus
• Ability to communicate to all levels of the organization (oral and written)
• Previous project/team leadership experience
• Project Management experience is a plus
• Demonstrated GDLS Product Knowledge a plus
• Ability to prioritize Engineering Releases based on lead time setbacks for Products
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Supply Chain Management (all areas)
• Product Development
• Manufacturing (all areas)
• Project Engineering
• Program Management
• Program Finance
• Aftermarket and Sustainment of Fielded Products
  Key Words:
  Material Planner, Program Management, Project Management, Product Management, Supply Chain Management, Master Scheduling, MRP, Dependent Demand, Independent Demand, Planning