• Supplier Onboarding: You'll support the efficient onboarding and novation of suppliers within project timelines, proactively identifying Supply Chain challenges and risks and ensuring appropriate actions are documented and progressed. Where supplier or internal technical issues arise, you'll support Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities and ensure the appropriate technical resource is engaged early to help resolve supplier quality concerns.

• Metrics and Reporting: You'll also maintain clear, concise and up-to-date project metrics to demonstrate progress through each stage of the Supply Chain transfer process, using complex data to produce meaningful reports and tools that support effective decision-making.

About you

At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.

To be successful in this role, you'll need to be a proactive and collaborative Supply Chain professional with proven experience of working with suppliers, ideally within aerospace, engineering, manufacturing or another complex operational environment.

• Skills: You'll have strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise a varied workload and meet project deadlines in a fast-moving and changing environment. You'll understand demand and material requirements and be confident supporting Supply Chain planning activities associated with production line set-up, Product Verification builds and customer orders.

• Analytical Skills: You'll have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and be comfortable working with large and complex datasets, turning information into clear reports, metrics and tools that help drive effective decision-making.

• Technical Skills: Experience using Microsoft Office applications and ERP systems will be essential.

• Communication: You'll be a confident communicator who can produce clear, concise and accurate written and verbal communications and present Supply Chain project status to stakeholders at all levels. You'll work effectively across departments including Project Management, Supply Chain, Planning, Operations, Engineering and Customer Support, as well as building strong relationships with licensors, suppliers, subcontractors and customers.

• Education: A degree or equivalent qualification in a technical or related subject would be beneficial, although significant relevant industry experience supported by strong educational standards will also be considered.

• Decision Making: You'll be comfortable making recommendations where there may be more than one solution to a problem, using data and sound judgement to determine the best way forward and clearly explaining the rationale behind your recommendation to the appropriate audience.

• Flexibility: Flexibility is important within this role. You'll need to be willing to occasionally work outside core hours in response to project or business priorities and be able to travel globally when required.

Benefits

At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!