Supply Chain Security Advisor

As the Advisor, Supply Chain Security, you will play a key role in developing, operating, and advancing Irving Shipbuilding’s Supply Chain Security capability in support of the River Class Destroyer Program. Reporting to the Manager, Compliance Integration and Implementation, you will provide security oversight and risk visibility across the supplier network through assurance activities, resilience assessments, security monitoring, reporting, dashboards, and corrective action tracking. Working collaboratively with Supply Chain and Industrial Compliance stakeholders, you will support supplier security posture improvement, coordinate security incident response activities, and deliver meaningful insights that strengthen security performance and supply chain resilience. This is an exciting opportunity for a security-minded professional looking to make a tangible impact on the protection and success of one of Canada’s most significant shipbuilding programs.

• Coordinate ISI’s Supply Chain Security function, including work planning, supplier security posture visibility, and timely issue escalation.
• Manage and coordinate SRCL-related activity for applicable suppliers and subcontractors, including intake, tracking, status visibility, stakeholder coordination, and alignment with Industrial Compliance / CSO direction.
• Develop, maintain, and operate Continuous Monitoring Plans, dashboards, KPIs, risk indicators, and objective evidence processes for supply chain security.
• Provide security assurance input to supplier audits and assessments, including defining security evidence expectations, supporting audit planning where required, reviewing supplier responses, and tracking security-related corrective actions.
• Coordinate supplier security incident response activity from a supply chain security perspective, including intake, triage support, escalation, corrective action tracking, lessons learned, and coordination with the CSO, Cyber, Supply Chain, Legal, and Program stakeholders as required.
• Support implementation of major supply chain security initiatives, including SCCG rollout, IT Security Requirements implementation, supplier uplift activities, security monitoring improvements, and related program security initiatives.
• Chair or coordinate relevant supply chain security governance forums where delegated, including the Supply Chain Security PDT or Program Security PDT, with clear action management, decision escalation, and stakeholder alignment.

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a related field.
• 7-10 years’ experience in a similar role, preferably in defense, shipbuilding, manufacturing, or heavy industry.
• Knowledge of defense contracting, regulated supply chain environments, supplier security requirements, SRCLs, Contract Security Program, Controlled Goods Program, and supplier security compliance processes.
• Knowledge of continuous monitoring, evidence-based compliance, supply chain security assurance, supplier audits, and corrective action management.
• Develop supplier assurance criteria, security monitoring frameworks, dashboards, KPIs, risk indicators, and management reports for supplier security governance and posture visibility.
• Assess supplier security evidence, evaluate supplier compliance against contractual, program, and security requirements, identify gaps, and support corrective action definition and closure.
• Facilitate cross-functional governance and drive closure of supplier security actions, risks, decisions, and corrective actions through appropriate ownership and escalation channels.

Due to the nature of work Irving Shipbuilding does, all successful applicants must meet requirements for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP), Canadian Government Security clearance, and U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

Please note this position requires a full-time, in-office presence.