What is required?
- Bachelors / Masters technical working and thinking level
- Technical and practical education and experience in production environments
- At least 10 years of relevant work experience
- Experience with supplier improvement projects using lean Six Sigma methodology is a plus
- Ability to lead a team effectively
- Good communication skills
- Good command of the English language, both verbally and in writing; German language skills are a plus
What will you get?
- €4,500 - €7,500 gross p/m (depending on knowledge and experience)
- 40-hour working week
- 25 vacation days
- Training opportunities
- Company Phantom shares, laptop and SIM card EU+USA
- Pension scheme
What will you do?
- 30% Optimizing quality and costs of external processes
- 20% Cost reduction/on time delivery and supplier strategy
- 20% Evaluating and selecting suppliers
- 15% Consultation with stakeholders
- 15% Integrating and managing supply chain in product assembly process
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Vacancy
As a Senior Supplier Industrialization Engineer at BlueHeart Energy, you are responsible for finding and managing the right suppliers for our Thermo-acoustic engine for heat pumps. In this role, you combine strategic insight with practical skills to find and manage the right suppliers. By understanding their production processes fully and understand the needs from the Design team, you can focus on quality, cost reduction and delivery time under the right conditions of the suppliers. Together with them you scale up from a view systems in 2024 to mass production in 2027. You work closely with the Engineering and the Production team. Your focus is on strategic scaling of production with suppliers or selecting better suppliers, from the initial development phase to industrialization for mass production.
You take responsibility for evaluating supplier capabilities, identifying risks, and actively seeking new supplier partners to support the growth ambitions of BlueHeart Energy. You analyze the effectiveness of suppliers and actively and creatively contribute, based on your experience, to achieve cost and quality goals. You ensure these align seamlessly with business objectives. You also play an active role in making important procurement decisions and managing projects with suppliers, developing strategies for financial planning and cost savings.
You are part of the Production & Procurement team, which consists of five people, with your main focus on Procurement. As a senior member, you have a leading role in the team's development and contribute to the realization of strategic goals. You also work closely with colleagues from other departments.
If you enjoy maintaining contact with stakeholders inside and outside the organization and find it challenging to develop procurement strategies and initiate new collaborations, then this is a job for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable day, you successfully negotiate with a supplier who exceeds expectations, enabling the BlueHeart Energy product to reach the market faster, with improved quality, and at the right price.
On a less enjoyable day, you are intensively tracking and solving an unexplained error in a delivery in close cooperation with suppliers.
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- Daily stand-up
- Sample agenda
- Lunch
- Integrating and managing supply chain
- Optimizing procurement processes
- Contact with suppliers
- Interface meeting
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- Daily stand-up
- Lunch
- Sprint completion
- Managing projects
- Meeting with stakeholders
- Optimizing quality and costs of external processes
- Optimizing quality and costs of external processes
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- Daily stand-up
- Lunch
- Integrating and managing supply chain
- Processing administration
- Internal consultation
- Optimizing quality and costs of external processes
- Contact with suppliers
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- Daily stand-up
- Lunch
- Company meeting
- Drinks
- Meeting with stakeholder
- Optimizing procurement processes
- Evaluating and selecting suppliers
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- Daily stand-up
- Lunch
- One-on-one with Manager
- Evaluating and selecting suppliers
- Optimizing procurement processes
- Integrating and managing supply chain
Firsthand experience
Growth
The career growth path at Blue Heart Energy is not fixed. The company expects to grow fast in the coming years, generating opportunities for all those who are ready to assume new responsibilities. BHE supports training and courses, and sharing knowledge is very important among employees. The main advantage of the start up and scale up phase is that self-initiative is really appreciated, and you can create your own job. As Blue Heart Energy grows, you grow along with them.
Working at BlueHeart Energy
BlueHeart Energy was founded in 2016 to apply thermoacoustics as a technology in heat pumps. Thermoacoustics is a disruptive approach to generate heat and cold, with potential to revolutionize the whole industry. Over the past seven years, BHE has developed a thermoacoustic engine to power heat pumps in residential buildings. This so called 'Blue Heart' of a heat pump is sold to manufacturers. In the coming years, the 'Blue Heart' will have to be further developed and optimized. Besides this, we will set up our production facility, strengthen the relationships with our customers (Manufacturers of heat pumps) and set up pilot projects in houses and monitor these.
- Headquarters in Alkmaar
- 33 employees
- Active in more than 10 countries
- 20% / 80%
- Average age 38 years
- Casual
- Hybrid working
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