Materials Manager

Job Description

This position is responsible to combine aspects of Scheduling, Buying, Receiving and Shipping to establish objectives that are consistent with the organizational needs of a customer driven company. Work from established procedures and/or verbal instructions.

Materials Manager will:

• Maintain the Scheduling, Ordering, Receiving and Shipping Processes to established standards and directives
• Demonstrate leadership and technical expertise to achieve long range strategies of an effective Production Scheduling System
• Lead the overall quality activities to achieve plant wide goals for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Inventory and Continuous Improvement.
• Develop a budget and manage the administration responsibilities for all aspects of the Materials function
• Identify and report the need for Standard Work Changes
• Utilize a cycle count process to maintain inventory accuracy until such time that overall processes are improved such that a cycle count program is no longer needed.
• Adapt to Standard Work variances
• Perform other duties as required or assigned
• Follow all prescribed safety rules and regulations
• Refer all questionable conditions to supervisor
• Actively contribute to the plant strategic vision as part of the plant leadership team
• Drive for world class supplier performance utilizing root cause corrective action methodology for both supplier quality issues as well as delivery issues.
• Formulate and install standard procedures and plans based on comparative analyses, methods, and costs
• Provide effective leadership, guidance, coaching, communication, learning and development
• Facilitate a continuous improvement culture by instilling Plan, Do, Check, Act methodology
• Create a work environment conducive to employee moral and motivation to accomplish performance objectives
• Drive broader functional knowledge expertise and learning through the organization
• Communicate goal progress and roadblocks to site leader
• Establish and share best-in-class quality processes with functional peers

Attributes, Skills and Requirements:

• Leadership and integrity; manages by fact, achieves results, builds teams
• Bias for action, assertive, decisive
• Commitment to achieve key performance metrics and drives for continuous improvement
• Utilizes vision and purpose, provides direction, inspires, and motivates
• Customer focused, meets expectations, internally and externally, forms partnerships
• Analytical problem solving ability, process oriented
• High level communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong organizational skills
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and develop high talent people
• Proficient computer skills, e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation graphics
• Four year technical degree or equivalent experience