THE CHALLENGE
The Vice President, Supply Chain is responsible for building and leading TURBINE-X’s end-to-end supply chain strategy across Canada and the United States. This executive role oversees sourcing, procurement, material planning, inventory, supplier development and quality, logistics, trade compliance, master data, and overall supply chain performance.
As a member of the senior leadership team, you’ll build the people, systems, supplier network, and operating disciplines needed to support rapid growth, project execution, repeatable manufacturing, and lifecycle service. This role is ideal for a strategic, hands-on leader who can build a scalable supply chain organization while ensuring materials are available at the right quality, cost, and time.
WHAT WE'LL OFFER YOU
- Competitive Compensation: A comprehensive package including a competitive salary and company benefits.
- Executive Leadership Opportunity: Help shape the supply chain strategy, organization, and operating model supporting TURBINE-X’s continued growth across North America.
- Opportunity to Build: Develop the people, processes, systems, supplier network, and governance required to support a rapidly scaling manufacturing business.
- Meaningful Work: Lead the supply chain behind modular power solutions supporting critical infrastructure and evolving power needs.
- Purpose-Driven Work: Join a team that lives by core values: Be Great, Be Kind, Stand Out, Have Fun, Give Back, and Together, We Win!
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Enterprise Supply Chain Strategy & Leadership
- Develop and execute an integrated supply chain strategy aligned with company growth, product roadmaps, project requirements, manufacturing capacity, and customer commitments.
- Translate sales forecasts, project demand, and production plans into sourcing, inventory, logistics, workforce, technology, and supplier-capacity strategies.
- Serve as the executive owner of end-to-end supply chain performance and advise senior leadership on material readiness, cost, working capital, capacity, risk, and recovery priorities.
- Establish the operating model, governance, decision rights, policies, controls, and service levels across supply chain functions.
- Develop annual and multi-year objectives, budgets, transformation roadmaps, and measurable business cases.
- Balance enterprise standardization with the operational requirements of individual facilities, projects, product lines, and countries.
Organization, Talent & Functional Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing cross-border supply chain organization supporting project-based execution and repeat manufacturing.
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, accountability, competency requirements, succession plans, and career paths.
- Recruit, coach, develop, and retain leaders and professionals across sourcing, procurement, planning, logistics, inventory, supplier quality, and master data.
- Establish effective operating rhythms, functional reviews, escalation processes, and performance expectations.
- Create a culture of ownership, collaboration, urgency, ethical conduct, fact-based decision-making, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure appropriate separation of duties, approval authority, and internal controls across procurement and inventory processes.
Planning, Material Readiness & Execution
- Lead the supply chain contribution to Sales and Operations Planning, including demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and constraint reviews.
- Establish disciplined material planning and procurement processes that support production schedules, project milestones, engineering changes, and service requirements.
- Identify long-lead, constrained, and business-critical materials early and establish clear ownership and recovery plans.
- Define material-readiness standards and ensure shortages, commitments, purchase-order status, and delivery risks are accurately reported.
- Partner with Manufacturing and Project Management to protect production priorities while controlling premium freight and schedule-driven expediting.
- Establish planning policies for safety stock, reorder points, lead times, order quantities, buffers, and product phase-in and phase-out.
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
- Develop category, commodity, and project sourcing strategies for direct materials, fabricated equipment, electrical and controls content, subcontracting, services, and indirect spend.
- Lead supplier selection, competitive bidding, negotiation, contracting, and long-term commercial agreement strategies.
- Establish make-versus-buy, localization, dual-source, supplier-consolidation, and outsourcing strategies based on total cost, capability, risk, and strategic importance.
- Build sourcing pipelines and secure capacity for high-value, long-lead, sole-source, and business-critical materials.
- Ensure procurement decisions comply with delegated authority, ethical sourcing requirements, contract standards, and approval processes.
- Partner with Finance to develop and validate cost savings, cost avoidance, payment-term, cash-flow, and productivity initiatives.
Supplier Development, Quality & Performance
- Develop a resilient supplier network capable of supporting first-of-a-kind, project, prototype, and repeat-production requirements.
- Establish supplier segmentation, qualification, onboarding, scorecards, business reviews, audits, development plans, and preferred-supplier governance.
- Partner with Quality and Engineering to ensure suppliers meet technical, quality, documentation, inspection, traceability, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead strategic supplier relationships and executive-level escalations involving quality, delivery, capacity, commercial disputes, and recovery commitments.
- Drive supplier corrective actions, capability improvements, capacity planning, value engineering, and continuous improvement.
- Monitor supplier financial health, sub-tier dependencies, concentration risk, geopolitical exposure, and other potential disruption indicators.
Inventory, Warehousing & Working Capital
- Establish enterprise inventory strategies and controls across purchased materials, manufactured components, consumables, spare parts, common stock, and project-dedicated material.
- Set targets for inventory accuracy, turns, aging, excess and obsolete inventory, cycle counting, preservation, and disposition.
- Ensure allocation, reservation, kitting, issue, return, transfer, and material ownership processes support accurate availability and project costing.
- Partner with Finance to optimize working capital, inventory valuation, payment terms, milestone payments, accruals, and cash forecasting.
- Ensure warehouse and material-handling practices protect quality, traceability, safety, and transaction accuracy.
- Lead regular reviews of slow-moving, surplus, obsolete, and project-residual inventory.
Logistics, Trade Compliance & Cross-Border Operations
- Develop domestic and international logistics strategies covering inbound, intercompany, project-site, oversized, expedited, and export shipments.
- Optimize total landed cost through transportation modes, routing, consolidation, packaging, Incoterms, brokerage, duties, tariffs, and country-of-origin strategies.
- Establish reliable cross-border material flows between Canadian and U.S. operations.
- Develop preferred logistics providers, performance standards, contingency routes, and escalation processes.
- Ensure compliance with applicable import, export, customs, sanctions, recordkeeping, and controlled-goods requirements in coordination with Legal and designated compliance owners.
- Monitor freight costs, premium freight, delivery reliability, claims, damage, and logistics productivity.
Supply Chain Risk & Business Continuity
- Establish a formal supply chain risk-management framework covering suppliers, materials, capacity, logistics, quality, geopolitical exposure, tariffs, cybersecurity, and business continuity.
- Maintain visibility of critical and sole-source materials, supplier constraints, sub-tier dependencies, and concentration risks.
- Develop alternate sources, strategic buffers, contingency plans, recovery actions, and executive escalation triggers.
- Integrate supply chain risks and opportunities into project reviews, operational planning, and enterprise risk management.
- Lead response and recovery efforts during major supplier, transportation, quality, or material-availability disruptions.
Systems, Data & Governance
- Own the business design and adoption of supply chain processes within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and related planning and reporting tools.
- Establish governance for item, vendor, lead-time, unit-of-measure, sourcing, planning, logistics, and purchasing master data.
- Ensure Bills of Materials, engineering changes, forecasts, purchase commitments, inventory, and project demand are connected through controlled processes.
- Standardize workflows, work instructions, approval matrices, controls, and records across Canadian and U.S. operations.
- Lead data-quality, automation, reporting, and ERP-enhancement initiatives in partnership with Finance, IT, Engineering, and Operations.
- Ensure supply chain records are accurate, complete, auditable, secure, and compliant.
Financial Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Own the supply chain operating budget and provide accurate forecasts for materials, logistics, staffing, systems, and improvement initiatives.
- Establish executive dashboards and KPIs covering cost, savings, supplier quality, on-time delivery, material readiness, purchase-order performance, inventory, working capital, lead time, and risk.
- Establish operating rhythms that turn performance data into accountable actions and recovery plans.
- Drive Lean, root-cause, standard-work, and continuous improvement initiatives throughout the supply chain.
- Benchmark performance and develop scalable processes that support increasing production volume, new programs, facilities, and geographic expansion.
- Ensure reported financial and operational benefits are measurable, validated, and sustained.
Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership
- Partner with Commercial and Project Management to align customer commitments with supply capability, lead times, commercial terms, and execution risk.
- Work with Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering on standardization, design-to-cost, design-for-supply, BOM maturity, and engineering change control.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Testing, and Service on production priorities, material readiness, shortage recovery, kitting, and field requirements.
- Work with Quality on supplier qualification, audits, inspection requirements, NCR/CAPA resolution, traceability, and supplier development.
- Partner with Finance, Legal, HR, HSE, and IT on controls, contracts, talent, compliance, systems, and enterprise risk.
- Represent TURBINE-X with strategic suppliers, logistics providers, customers, auditors, partners, and other external stakeholders.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Typically 15 or more years of progressively responsible experience across supply chain, procurement, planning, logistics, supplier quality, or operations.
- At least seven years of experience leading managers and multifunctional teams.
- Demonstrated success building or transforming an end-to-end supply chain organization during significant business, production, or geographic growth.
- Proven leadership across strategic sourcing, procurement, material planning, inventory, logistics, supplier development, and supply chain systems.
- Experience leading supply chain activities across multiple facilities and countries, with direct Canada-U.S. cross-border experience strongly preferred.
- Significant experience within industrial manufacturing, power generation, energy equipment, engineered-to-order products, electrical systems, rotating equipment, fabrication, or comparable capital-equipment environments.
- Demonstrated success negotiating complex commercial agreements and delivering measurable improvements in cost, cash, quality, delivery, lead time, inventory, and risk.
- Experience supporting first-of-a-kind products, product industrialization, repeat manufacturing, project execution, and rapid organizational growth.
- Experience implementing or significantly improving ERP, MRP, master-data, S&OP, procurement, and supply chain reporting processes.
TECHNICAL & BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Enterprise supply chain strategy and operating-model design.
- Sales and Operations Planning, demand planning, supply planning, and capacity planning.
- Strategic sourcing, category management, procurement, and complex contract negotiation.
- Supplier qualification, development, relationship management, quality, and performance management.
- Inventory strategy, warehousing, material control, and working-capital optimization.
- International logistics, Incoterms, customs, tariffs, country of origin, and trade compliance.
- Total cost of ownership, landed-cost, should-cost, make-versus-buy, localization, and value-engineering analysis.
- Supply chain risk management, resiliency, contingency planning, and business continuity.
- Manufacturing BOMs, engineering change control, project procurement, and material-readiness management.
- ERP-enabled process design and master-data governance, with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central experience strongly preferred.
- Financial planning, budget management, cash-flow awareness, cost reduction, and benefit validation.
- Executive dashboards, KPI systems, data analysis, and continuous improvement.
LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
- Proven executive leadership, organizational design, and talent-development capability.
- Ability to build scalable functions while simultaneously supporting daily execution and urgent project requirements.
- Strategic thinker with disciplined follow-through and strong operational accountability.
- Strong cross-functional influence within complex, multi-site, and rapidly evolving organizations.
- Executive-level communication, negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Sound judgment and ability to make timely, risk-balanced decisions in uncertain environments.
- Strong commercial acumen and financial literacy.
- Proven change leadership and ability to establish consistent operating practices across countries and facilities.
- High integrity, ethical judgment, and commitment to strong internal controls.
- Willingness to remain hands-on when required while developing capable leaders and scalable systems.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA or relevant advanced degree.
- Professional certification such as CSCP, CPSM, CPIM, SCOR-P, CCLP, or equivalent.
- Direct experience supporting Canada-U.S. cross-border manufacturing and supply chains.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Working knowledge of supplier quality systems, audits, traceability, NCR/CAPA processes, and supply chain compliance requirements.
- Experience within modular power, power generation, rotating equipment, or engineered-to-order manufacturing environments.
PHYSICAL & SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
- Follow all TURBINE-X Energy Health, Safety & Environmental policies, procedures, and training requirements.
- Provide visible leadership for safe supplier, warehouse, logistics, material-handling, and site activities.
- Ensure compliance with applicable Canadian and U.S. safety requirements within the scope of responsibility.
- Travel regularly between Canadian and U.S. facilities and to supplier, customer, and project locations as business needs require.
- Wear required personal protective equipment when entering manufacturing, warehouse, supplier, or project environments.
- Ensure employees and visitors within the function follow applicable site-specific safety requirements.
- Report incidents, injuries, hazards, and unsafe conditions in accordance with company procedures.
- Take reasonable precautions to protect the safety of employees, contractors, visitors, and yourself.
ABOUT TURBINE-X & THE X-GROUP
"Modular power to give back with endless energy"
The X-Group of Companies is the world’s leading provider of cross-platform solutions for evolving power systems. Unlike traditional providers, we are vendor-neutral, optimizing for our clients' needs, budgets, and ESG goals. Whether it's concept or completion for rotating equipment, we solve for X.
HOW TO APPLY
If you take pride in your work and value learning, growth, and excellence, you belong here. Apply today.
- Online: Apply via Indeed.ca
- Email: Send your resume to [email protected] (Please indicate "Vice President of Supply Chain" in the subject line).
X-Group is an equal opportunity employer. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Pay: From $150,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Nisku, AB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Which one of our core values resonates with you the most and why?
Education:
- Secondary School (required)
Experience:
- Supply chain management: 10 years (required)
Work Location: In person
