Supply Chain Engineer

Support the operational departments in developing, maintaining and improving our supply chain processes and set up supply chains for our newly developed products.

Questions about this position?
Bram Frings, Recruitment, +316 – 51807825 / bram.frings@cpp.canon

Canon Production Printing develops, produces, and distributes high-end printing systems. As a Supply Chain Engineer at Canon Production Printing, you will operate in a global environment, collaborating with interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams throughout the organization and the value chain. The Supply Chain Department within manufacturing is responsible for the development and improvement of lean supply chains to ensure timely availability of parts and components for our assembly operation, as well as making sure our customers are delighted with the right printing products at the right time.

Your Challenge: Design, set up, and maintain robust supply chains with maximum material availability at minimum costs. Your main tasks include:

• Ensuring parts availability by managing supplier delivery performance and improving performance where necessary
• Working on New Product Introductions. Together with R&D, Industrial Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Procurement, you will select the right suppliers and realize the supply chain set-up for parts supply for our assembly operation
• Using lean methodologies (like Value Stream Mapping) to improve processes both internally and at our suppliers
• Setting up the supply chain architecture (inbound, warehousing, assembly, outbound, network design) for complex parts or products
• Supporting the operational SCM departments at various manufacturing sites in developing, maintaining, and improving processes and systems
• Traveling to our suppliers a couple of times per year

Furthermore, you are expected to lead by example and take initiative when there are process gaps and opportunities. You will work on several levels, from shop floor to management, and in close cooperation with Suppliers, Planning, Procurement, Industrial Engineering, Quality, and R&D. Together with your colleagues, you will contribute to a professional SCM department.

Who You’ll Work With

Canon Production Printing develops, manufactures, and distributes high-end printing systems. Within Manufacturing Machines, the Supply Chain Management department is responsible for the timely availability of parts through our suppliers (inbound), production planning, and on-time delivery of our best-in-class high mix low volume products within the Canon organization. The Supply Chain group consists of 32 people, both engineers and planners.

Join us if you want to work in an environment that exemplifies Lean principles and methodologies. At Canon Production Printing, we are committed to continuous improvement and operational excellence, inspired by our Japanese heritage and Lean philosophy.

What You Bring

We are looking for an action-oriented team player with strong analytical skills and proven problem-solving experience. You thrive on seeing theory in action and enjoy going to the gemba. With your outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, you will quickly navigate our organization and build an internal network, enabling you to drive process improvements successfully.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent level of work experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English

What Would Be a Big Plus

• Experience with lean manufacturing, inbound planning, and supplier management
• Experience with New Product Introductions in a manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of SAP
• Proficiency in Dutch

 What you’ll get from us

We offer you a job within a large, complex and international product development organization with partners, suppliers and customers worldwide. You will have a high level of responsibility and work on a diverse range of product development projects. We challenge you to realize in time delivery of outstanding products in line with the business strategy as well as stakeholder and customer requirements.

Besides a challenging working environment, scope for personal and professional development you will receive an interesting package of employment conditions;

• A competitive salary (range €3.700 - €6.000 gross per month)
• 38 vacation days
• Extra 13th month pay (8,6%), holiday allowance (8%) and commuting allowance
• Hybrid working for a healthy work-life balance
• A huge range of training and professional development opportunities
• A laptop and smartphone

Career opportunities

From the position of Supply Chain Engineer you have a lot of career-opportunities. These can be within the department (for example work on improvement projects or grow towards New Product Introduction projects), but also outside of it, for example make a horizontal step to another Supply Chain department.

About Canon Production Printing
Canon Production Printing develops and manufactures high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market and is part of Canon, a global provider of imaging technologies and services. Canon Production Printing operates on three continents, with approximately 3300 employees (end 2022) and has its global headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands.

Further information about Canon Production Printing is available at cpp.canon.