Lead Materials Day Shift

Lead Materials Day Shift

The Materials Lead supports the daily operations of the Materials department by coordinating workflow and providing front-line leadership for material handlers and inventory personnel. This hands-on role helps ensure the timely receipt, movement, storage, and delivery of materials needed to support production while maintaining inventory accuracy, safety, and operational efficiency.

The Materials Lead serves as the primary point of contact for the team during assigned shifts, promoting a culture of safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include leading and coordinating the daily activities of Material Handlers and other assigned team members to support production schedules and customer requirements. This involves assigning work, monitoring progress, and providing hands-on support across receiving, inventory control, staging, replenishment, and material movement. The Materials Lead ensures raw materials, components, and finished goods are accurately received, stored, labeled, and delivered to designated locations.

They coordinate with Production, Purchasing, Planning, Shipping, and Quality teams to ensure uninterrupted material flow, monitor material availability, and proactively address shortages to minimize production downtime. They support inventory accuracy through cycle counts, audits, transaction verification, and discrepancy resolution. The Materials Lead ensures ERP/MRP system transactions are completed accurately and in a timely manner, operates forklifts and other material handling equipment safely and efficiently, and trains and mentors new employees on material handling processes, equipment operation, safety procedures, and quality expectations.

They promote and enforce company safety policies, housekeeping standards, and regulatory compliance, identify opportunities to improve material flow, reduce waste, and increase operational efficiency through lean manufacturing practices, assist leadership with daily reporting, workforce planning, and departmental communication, provide coaching and constructive feedback to team members while fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.

Education and experience required include a high school diploma or equivalent, minimum of 2 years of experience in shipping, warehouse, or manufacturing operations, prior leadership or team lead experience preferred, and experience with inventory control and material flow processes in a manufacturing environment required. Window and door manufacturing experience is preferred.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include a strong understanding of inventory management, warehouse operations, and production material flow, ability to read and interpret production schedules, work orders, and inventory documentation, experience with ERP/MRP or warehouse management systems, basic computer proficiency, including Microsoft Office applications, strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across departments, demonstrated leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution abilities, ability to prioritize work and adapt to changing production demands in a fast-paced environment, and working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement practices.

Leadership competencies include acting consistently with CBB's Values (Safety, Integrity, & Inclusion) and Behaviors & Mindsets (Customer-Centricity, Interconnectedness, Continuous Improvement), championing, supporting, and driving change, managing the impact on people and processes, fostering a culture of continuous learning, developing talent, and building high-performing teams, prioritizing achieving outcomes without compromising values, clearly communicating with confidence to drive action and build enthusiasm, inspiring growth by challenging limits and pursuing excellence, focusing on the future and setting a clear direction, exhibiting strong business judgment, understanding priorities, and acting decisively, adapting to change and effectively resolving conflict, rebounding from…