Senior Supplier Expeditor
REQUISITION ID:
13712
LOCATION:
Chennai, TN, IN, 600119
DEPARTMENT:
Engineering
Your Task:
- Establish and maintain detailed supplier manufacturing and delivery milestone plans.
- Track raw-material ordering, supplier confirmations, material arrival and certificates.
- Expedite every critical manufacturing stage: fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, coating/painting, inspection, testing and packing.
- Physically verify progress and challenge unsupported or unrealistic supplier commitments.
- Coordinate Supplier Quality / QA activities, inspections, NCRs, corrective actions and release requirements.
- Coordinate truck pick-up with forwarders; verify loading, quantities, packaging, documents and dispatch evidence.
- Monitor receipt, inventory and condition of material in designated storage yards.
- Coordinate export readiness across up to four Indian ports of departure, including cut-offs, bookings, documentation and vessel departure.
- Maintain risk registers, recovery plans and action trackers with clear owner and deadline.
- Escalate critical risks with quantified delivery impact and practical mitigation options
- Provide weekly executive dashboards and management presentations based on verified facts and evidence.
- Secure proof of delivery / movement and sign-off documentation at critical milestones.
Your Profile:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
- 5–10 years in supplier expediting, supplier management, supplier development, manufacturing, quality or industrial supply chain.
- Proven experience tracking manufacturing milestones and driving suppliers to recover delays.
- Strong practical understanding of fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, coating/painting, inspection and packing
- Able to challenge suppliers, drive actions and escalate persistent non-performance
- Working knowledge of inspection, NCRs, corrective actions and quality release documentation.
- Experience coordinating truck movements, yards, forwarders and/or export shipments.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint; able to turn operational data into executive-level risk reporting.
- Fluent business English, strong written communication and confident stakeholder management.
- Willing and able to travel extensively within India and work on supplier/yard/port sites.
- Demonstrated ability to remain effective under time pressure and manage simultaneous critical issues.
- SAP / ERP experience, particularly production, purchasing or logistics modules.
- Power BI, advanced Excel dashboards or other data-visualisation experience.
- Experience with project cargo, breakbulk, containers or complex export logistics.
- Experience with Indian ports, Customs House Agents (CHA), freight forwarders and export documentation.
- Knowledge of production planning, capacity analysis and critical-path scheduling.
Nordex adheres to a policy of equal employment opportunity. All employment decisions are made without regard to religion, age, sex, color, national origin, handicap, or other protected class and are in full compliance with all federal and state laws.
Severely disabled applicants and applicants of equal status will be given special consideration in the event of equal suitability.