Supply Chain Specialist

Location: India — Microair's India office, or remote within India for the right candidate

Type: Full time

Hours: Standard business hours, with some flexibility. Meetings between Brisbane and India will fall during normal hours where possible

Salary: Competitive, commensurate with experience

Microair Avionics, a global leader in light sports and general aviation avionics is looking for an experienced supply chain specialist. Reporting to the Operations Manager in Brisbane, the role will span all commodity groups including electronic parts, PCB/PCA, CNC and sheet metal. The chance is to work with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery to production whilst reducing costs over time.

The role starts with a strong transactional base and is expected to grow — sourcing new vendors directly, and shifting selected assemblies from in-house manufacture to purchased items.

Business capabilities The Procurement Management capability is owned by the Operations Manager. The Supply Chain Specialist performs the capabilities below, except where approval sits elsewhere.

Material Procurement

Raising and managing purchase orders across all commodity groups

Supply Chain Specialist

Order Confirmation & Promise Dates

Securing supplier confirmations and maintaining accurate promised dates in Business Central

Supply Chain Specialist

Delivery Performance Management

Tracking delivery against promise, escalating delays and re-planning where production is affected

Supply Chain Specialist

Supplier Sourcing & Selection

Identifying and qualifying new suppliers to improve price, lead time and capacity

Supply Chain Specialist

Price Negotiation

Negotiating price with existing suppliers and securing better pricing from alternative sources. Any supply contract or formal agreement must be approved by the Operations Manager or CEO.

Supply Chain Specialist (contract approval: Operations Manager / CEO)

Supplier Performance Management

Scorecards, on-time delivery and quality tracking, and corrective action with vendors

Supply Chain Specialist

Approved Vendor Management

Maintaining the approved vendor list and renewing quality certificates before their due date

Supply Chain Specialist

Material Requirements Planning

Running and actioning Business Central Master Planning against the order book and forecast

Supply Chain Specialist

Supply Risk Management

Identifying sole-source, capacity, long-lead and obsolescence risk, and mitigating it

Supply Chain Specialist

Demand & Forecast Alignment





Working with Operations on forecast changes and the corresponding supply response

Supply Chain Specialist

Procurement Reporting

Daily status reporting, Jira task management and KPI reporting

Supply Chain Specialist

Cost Optimisation An enterprise capability. In this role it covers procurement spend — Pareto driven price and cost reduction programs.

Supply Chain Specialist

Continuous Improvement An enterprise capability. In this role it covers the procurement cycle and the processes that support it.

Supply Chain Specialist

Key role requirements

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in business or engineering
- 5+ years’ experience managing predominantly high value, low volume electronic supply chains and associated assemblies
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC), including Master Planning — this is essential
- Experience identifying supply chain risk and building and executing plans to manage those risks
- Experience negotiating supplier pricing and building long term supply relationships
- Experience managing inventory levels to achieve both material availability and working capital requirements
- Excellent verbal and written English
- Proactive, and able to manage your own workload and priorities without close supervision
- Direct ordering experience across electronic components, PCB/PCA assemblies and machined or sheet metal parts
- Experience using Jira, or a comparable task management system, to manage and report on procurement workload

Core accountabilities

- Secure the material supply that allows production to meet the order book and forecast, and hold accountability for the outcome
- Run a continuous cost reduction program, using Pareto or similar analysis to target the spend and suppliers with the greatest opportunity
- Develop the supplier base over time, improving price, lead time, capacity and quality performance across all commodity groups
- Maintain a live view of supply risk and a plan to manage it, escalating to operations leadership before production is exposed

Day-to-day responsibilities This is a hands-on role in a small team.



The specialist plans and negotiates and executes the daily transactional work below.

- Raise purchase orders and keep them moving, chasing vendors, engineering or other internal stakeholders as required
- Check overdue items daily and add or update promised dates in BC as they change
- Run and action Master Planning, and maintain stock levels against agreed reorder points
- Where a promised date has passed and the item has arrived in Brisbane, chase the warehouse for receipting; where it has not arrived, chase the vendor
- Where a delivery date changes, inform Operations early, load the revised date, and source an alternative if production is at risk
- Coordinate payment approval with the Operations Manager for orders that require card or prepayment
- Identify supply risk early — capacity constraints, sole-source items and long-lead times — and raise it with the Operations Manager with a proposed mitigation
- Monitor supplier notices for obsolescence, end-of-life and product change (PCN/EOL) on electronic components, and alert Operations and Engineering early enough to action a last-time buy or qualify an alternative part
- Monitor supplier performance against on-time delivery and quality, and open corrective action with vendors that fall short
- Flag cost reduction opportunities as they arise — price breaks, order consolidation, alternative sources or specification changes — and raise them with the Operations Manager
- Renew approved vendor quality certificates before their due date
- Reconcile BC records against supplier portals and order acknowledgements so item, price and date data stay accurate
- Maintain Jira and provide the daily procurement status report

Key performance indicators

- Material availability does not cause a DIFOT (Delivered In Full, On Time) miss
- 90% of open purchase orders carry a supplier confirmed delivery date
- Changes to delivery dates are identified and communicated to Operations before they impact production, with a revised date loaded in BC or an alternative source actioned
- No approved vendor quality certificate is allowed to lapse past its due date

Other considerations

- Experience in aviation is considered valuable but not essential
- Self-motivated and independent are critical capabilities, as is the ability to work well in a team
- A problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset
- A strong aptitude for learning and improving ERP systems and the quality of the data within them is highly valuable

📌 Supply Chain Specialist (Indore)
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