Team Lead

**Job Title**
- Lead - Procurement

**Department**
- Supply Chain

**Reports to**
- Manager - Procurement

**Job Category**
- Salaried

**About MHI Canada Aerospace, Inc.**

MHI Canada Aerospace, Inc. (MHICA), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, is a Tier 1 manufacturer of major aircraft structures and assemblies, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Over the past decade, MHICA has built more than aircraft components, it has built a recognized worldwide reputation for capacity, precision, on-time delivery, and excellence. MHICA has two state-of-the-art facilities combined to 476,000 sq. ft. This comprises of Manufacturing & Assembly, Engineering, Quality and Supply Chain, where highly skilled employees are working on Bombardier's sector-leading Global 5000/6000 and Challenger 350 business aircraft. MHICA's technicians build and join wing assemblies and fuselage sections, as well as perform systems and flight control assembly installations and testing.

**Scope of Position**
- Reporting to the Manager - Procurement, the Lead-Procurement is responsible for leading buyers/planners and on-site expeditors for MHI Canada Aerospace. Working to provide strategic & tactical procurement solutions for supplier challenges that will affect the OTD of parts to MHICA. Coaching, training, and managing buyers/planners in their daily tasks, activities, and actions. Building strong supplier partnerships to ensure effective communication and consistent supply. Planning and looking ahead to prevent any disruption to MHICA business.
- Monitors and reviews the daily tasks and objectives of buyers/planners.
- Attends critical supplier touchpoints to help overcome any challenges they are facing.
- Helps buyers/planners with any strategic supplier planning.
- Manages and provides direction to any supplier expeditor that is on site. Sets expectations and reviews daily reports and actions that are provided by the expeditors.
- Daily reporting on critical items with actions taken and status for supplier challenges and parts that do not support the production schedule.
- Be the first escalation point for buyers and ensure the correct path of escalation to management.
- Take charge of the execution of procurement activities of all buyers.
- Lead the implementation of the procurement team KPI’s and monitor buyers’ adherence to the defined metrics.
- Clear communication of critical items with the Production Planning and Co-ordinating team.
- Advanced planning and forecasting skills to ensure future on time deliveries.
- Analyzes material requirements and/or Kanban levels for purchased parts to achieve optimum material flow.
- Monitors and expedites materials to ensure material flow to support production requirements and sales orders.
- Establish order parameters to optimize inventory levels to improve flow.
- Develops and manages effective relationships with internal departments. i.e., engineering, manufacturing, accounting, planning/materials, and quality.
- Maintain strong working relationships with suppliers.
- Working with sourcing to maintain Material Requirements Planning (MRP) order parameters on assigned parts (i.e. lead time, Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ), Multiples, Contact info etc.) in MHICA system.
- Preparing and presenting Supplier PRM’s.
- Working with sourcing on dual source options for more stable parts flow on critical parts.
- Working with buyers/planners on gap buys for parts that are not supporting production schedule.
- Coordinating with suppliers and sourcing for parts delays due to raw material, hardware, consumables and adhesives - working with methods and engineering on alternates that can be used to overcome these challenges.
- Recommendation of validity of on-site expeditors.

**Skills and Qualifications**
- Excellent organizational skills are required.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a demonstrated ability to interact effectively with individuals at all levels in the organization required.
- Good time management skills and the ability to handle multiple priorities.
- Familiarity with ERP systems - Syspro preferred.
- Driven, tenacious and assertive character.
- Resilient and reliant/creative go to person.

**Experience**
- Minimum 5+ years’ prior experience as a Buyer / Planner, or other Supply Chain Management function.
- Ability to review and relate Engineering Drawings and Specifications, an asset.
- Aerospace experience is an asset.

**Education**
- Degree or Diploma in business or related program.
- In lieu of degree/diploma 10+ years of related experience.

**Please note** - the Company will conduct a criminal background check upon hire.

**Why MHICA?**
- Tier 1 Aero Structures Facility
- Competitive compensation packages
- Extensive training programs
- Employee referral program
- Employee engagement programs all year round
- Comprehensive Benefits & RRSP group contribution program
- Corporate Partnerships
- MHI Canada Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer and encourages