Materials Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Position Overview :

The Material Manager establishes, manages, reviews, and maintains production schedules to ensure the Master Schedule is being executed, effective capacity planning is carried out, accurate inventories are maintained, and shipments are made on time to meet customer expectations. Labor hours, material usage, and machine capacity must continually be balanced and communicated to all essential personnel. In addition, the successful candidate for this position will take ownership of (but not limited to) material procurement, creating purchase orders, and submitting to vendors for supplies and support.

Responsibilities :

Schedule all production utilizing ERP and Visual management systems, to include prioritization and coordination between all shifts for smooth transition

Calculate production needs based on customer shipment requirements

Create work orders by utilizing customer demand and forecasting

Production schedule development and Production Planning

Schedule to maintain optimum inventory levels to ensure on-time deliveries to meet customer requirements

Purchase necessary parts and supplies to support production schedule (i.e., cardboard, components, etc.…)

Manage vendors and suppliers to ensure quality, reliability, prices, continuity, and delivery

Maintain supplier scorecards and effectively communicate quarterly results

Manage supplier debits

Communicate any risk of schedule compliance to Operations Manager, Quality, and Shipping / Receiving Supervisor to come up with a solution.

Along with corporate policies, develop, recommend, and implement purchasing policies and procedures to facilitate the most economical and expeditious method of procuring material.

Work cross-functionally with Sales, Quality, and Operations to ensure all new products are set up in Visual properly and in a timely fashion

Develop and maintain good working relationships with key customers.

Generate list of parts weekly to be counted. Email list to Shipping / Receiving Supervisor to complete counts. Investigate and Reconcile inventory differences in Visual.

Track outgoing scrap and record by end of month.

Manage, evaluate, and coach direct reports (i.e Shipping / Receiving Supervisor)

End of Month / Year End Duties :

Close out work orders with quantity received

Verify negative inventory transactions

Complete all receivables and inventory adjustments

Verify all sales transactions are invoiced

Run month / year end reports and send to accounts payable

Requirements :

Bachelor or Associates degree desired; not required

3-5 years of recent experience with degree; 10+ years recent experience if no degree

Proficiency and ability to navigate ERP systems

Knowledge of steel industry and metal stamping industry desired

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel is strongly suggested

Experience in freight scheduling and freight cost negotiation a plus

Possess excellent project management, problem solving, and communication skills

MUST demonstrate the desire and aptitude to take Extreme Ownership of their role