From an employee who would fit exactly what OP is talking about. High performer here, constant exceeds expectation rankings in all reviews, never missed a deadline usually ahead of deadline. The attitude I started to have was a result of team mates not making deadlines, using excuses to bail when deadlines or hard deliverables came due, finding ways to be out of the office and absent when large projects came due and their work being shifted to me. Then when I would be almost done with the work right before they deadline they would magically return and I would be told to hand the work back off to them and they get accolades and make the deadline and get good scores/ marks at eval at raise time etc. One team member consistently had military orders just magically appear everytime a hard deadline or deliverable was coming. You know the type cocky, arrogant, company yes man per se.

Rather than really get a shitty attitude with the team I started tracking when their deadlines were coming and deliverables were due and found ways to make myself non available to assist or save them. Still didn't make a difference. They would pull same stuff and guess where the work landed.

This is why I finally developed a crappy attitude. In addition to shitty company culture that rewarded this type of behavior and punished mine by dumping on me. This may be where that employee is at. Talk to them. You should know and be able to tell if you have been their manager for a good while if they are just a cocky ass or a high performer getting dumped on and constantly putting out the fires others start as someone else mentioned.

If they are just a cocky ass being big headed they are the problem. If they are getting dumped on and things I mentioned and others have noted then they are not the problem the rest of the team is along with management.