Supply Chain Planner

Scythe is looking for a Supply Chain Planner to help manage our supply chain and support the next chapter in Scythe's journey: ramping from dozens of units to tens of thousands. We've developed an industry-changing machine and have customers knocking down our door for units, so we're looking to scale our production quickly and get thousands of reliable autonomous machines out into the world where they can change how we take care of all our outdoor space.

You'll be directly responsible for managing a number of critical suppliers, ensuring they're meeting quality, cost, and delivery expectations that we set. You'll also be expected to work closely with our manufacturing teams, suppliers, and customers to ensure we are managing your suppliers' risk at appropriate levels and forecasting future ramp targets to our vendors.

What you’ll do at Scythe  

• Own the end-to-end planning lifecycle for the vehicle's sub-assemblies, components, and/or finished goods. This includes ensuring accurate bill of materials, appropriate supply coverage, and timely configuration management
• Manage the supply schedule for assigned assemblies/components in order to optimize the clear-to-build plan, minimize obsolescence, and enable the production line to operate at full capacity
• Partner with engineering and production teams to effectively incorporate design or process changes seamlessly into the production line without impacting output
• Identify potential supply risks and coordinate with the appropriate stakeholders to propose creative solutions and ensure steady supply
• Assess and monitor supply base capacity and constraints at critical suppliers to inform program scenario planning and mitigate potential challenges when ramping a new product revision
• Maintain part and planning master data to accurately reflect lead times, manufacturing allocations, yields and attrition, offsets, order policy, etc.

What you know well

• Experience in a medium/high-volume hardware industry such as automotive, medical, consumer electronics, or similar
• Proven success working on cross-functional new product introduction projects
• Familiarity with ERP systems and purchasing/planning functions
• Advanced skills in MS Excel (or Google Sheets) with ability to create pivot tables and analyze data by creating various charts
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills

What you’ve maybe done

• Some experience developing with SQL, Tableau, Grafana, PowerBI, or similar data visualization tools.
• Experience in supply chain planning for a growing hardware engineering company, ideally within the robotics industry

Why Scythe?

• Scythe is an early-stage but well-capitalized startup. Have a huge impact alongside an awesome team of experts shipping something the world has never before seen
• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Fully-sponsored medical, vision, and dental insurance, including 75% funded dependent coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching today)
• Headquarters near beautiful Boulder, CO. Enjoy the bounties of nature and open spaces close to home with mountain biking, hiking, skiing and more.
• Satellite offices in Austin, TX and Vero Beach, FL 
• Flexible paid time-off that allows you to do your best work
• Highly collaborative learning culture where personal freedom, growth, and responsibility are valued
• An opportunity to have an incredible positive impact on the world

Closing

Scythe is a total compensation company, which provides employees a comprehensive salary, equity, and benefit package. However, only the minimum salary amounts are listed here. Scythe carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including education, years of experience, competencies and other relevant business considerations. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary along with your compensation mode preferences. The Supply Chain Planner position has an expected minimum annual cash salary of $75,000. The actual pay may be higher depending on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Equity and benefits packages are NOT included in this estimate. Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Colorado only, and this role is open to candidates outside of Colorado as well.