Material Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

Design West Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of cutting-edge aerospace and military technologies. With a commitment to excellence and innovation, we specialize in designing, manufacturing, and delivering high-performance solutions for our clients worldwide. Our team comprises passionate professionals dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in aerospace and defense.

Position Overview :

The Material Coordinator focuses primarily on assisting planners and project managers on executing production operations. This requires issuing work orders, monitoring, moving, expediting, and resolving material issues in support of production to meet production schedules. Organization and communication skills are highly emphasized as major functions of this role to ensure time material supply, as well as, requesting and coordinating critical updates from production, purchasing, engineering, quality, and warehouse to ensure material and information are flowing appropriately to meet our requirements.

Key Job Duties :

• Reviews planned work orders in advance of release to ensure all materials are available. Proactively works to fulfill shortages that would delay work orders from being issued to production.
• Release work orders and ensure planned materials are pulled and staged for upcoming production demand.
• Ensure materials are moved through work centers with emphasis on working to a list of targeted priority items from planners and project managers.
• Provide verbal and written reports on parts status to planning and production management.
• Interface with assemblers, buyers and warehouse personnel on job shortages.
• Supports planners with follow-up on "rework" parts due to non-conformances and / or "upgrades" from Engineering Change Notices (ECN) or other Quality / Engineering directed dispositions.
• Works closely with buyers to emphasize the demand for parts and documentation to support production.
• Outside Processing - Coordinates materials and processing functions for the efficient preparation and return of outside processed materials needed for production.
• Involved with internal / external supplier availability / capacity and pursuit of alternate processing options to support on-time delivery to assembly.
• Logistics - Acquiring / coordinating materials, parts, services to ensure efficient arrival to production.
• Generating and analyzing project status and / or project shortage reports.
• Requesting work in process updates to monitor and ensure on-time delivery.
• Frequently communicating with assembly, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, and upper management via email, phone calls, and face to face conversations.
• Performing root cause analysis and corrective action on late material deliveries to prevent reoccurrence.
• Work with a sense of urgency and closure in regards to influencing on-time delivery throughout assembly, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, quality, and outside processing suppliers.

Requirements :

Key Competencies for the role :

Benefits :

Join our team and be a part of shaping the future of aerospace and defense technology! If you have the skills, experience, and passion to excel in this role, we encourage you to apply.

Design West Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in the workplace. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including those with diverse backgrounds and those with disabilities.

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