Material Coordinator

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market‑leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Material Coordinator located in Austin, TX (1st Shift: 8:00am‑5:00pm, Mon‑Fri). Typical day: computes amount of material required to complete job orders.

• Reviews production schedules and related information and confers with purchasing to define adequacy of raw materials.
• Requisition s material and establishes sequential delivery dates to departments, according to production plan, job order priorities and material availability, avoiding excess inventory positions.
• Examines material delivered to production departments to verify conformance to specifications.
• Arranges in‑plant transfer of materials to meet production schedules, moving or transporting materials from one department to another.
• Compiles and maintains both manual and computerized records such as material inventory, in‑process production reports, and status and location of materials.
• Creates, updates, executes, and analyzes reports.
• Gathers data, tracks, posts and pitches for action plans and root analysis.
• Prioritizes data entry activities.
• Monitors and controls movement of material and parts for accurate inventory.
• Writes procedures and updates them in document control.
• Follows all distribution related ISO procedures and Material Handling Guidelines.
• Conducts training sessions for departments’ MRP procedures.
• Administers the inventory cycle count program, reconciles discrepancies, resolves issues, and analyzes inventory cycle count reports.
• Identifies parts and supplies that need to be ordered to maintain specified stocking levels.
• Analyzes stock usage and defines correct stocking levels.
• Investigates unusual high usage of materials and parts and suggests methods to correct the problem found.
• Stocks and issues materials or merchandise.
• In charge of adding new part numbers to current inventory based on input from manufacturing.
• Verifies the accuracy of the material kit versus the pick list for correct parts by checking that all parts are packaged and contained in the kit.
• Tracks defect levels on inspected kits, calculates quality performance, charts results, develops process improvements and schedules work of others.

• Completion of secondary school, vocational training, or equivalent with experience in the use of computer applications.
• Minimum of 2 years of administrative experience within the materials, planning or related function.
• Proficiency with office software including word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages and database systems.
• Experience with inventory management, BAAN or other ERP systems, and inventory cycle count.
• Demonstrated functional skills and basic process knowledge, with participation in process improvement initiatives.

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Life Insurance.
• Short‑term and Long‑term Disability.
• Matching 401(k) Contributions.
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time.
• Tuition Reimbursement.

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Is Sponsorship Available? No

Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. We do not discriminate based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other status protected by law. We’re happy to provide reasonable accommodations to those with a disability for assistance in the application process.

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