Materials Manager

Job Details Level: Management

Job Location:

Dayton Office - Dayton, MN 55369

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: 4 Year Degree

Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year

Job Shift: First

Job Category:
Other

Gradian is an engineering-led, full-line thermal solutions partner serving data center and other mission-critical, commercial, and industrial markets. Headquartered in Maple Grove, MN, with additional facilities across North America, we design and manufacture liquid cooling systems, air handling equipment, heat rejection units, and modular, factory-assembled thermal management solutions.

Gradian was founded through the unification of four complementary, established brands: MAS HVAC, Daedex, DeepCoolAI, and Eco Chillers. Together, we act as a single-source provider, deploying cooling technologies as scalable systems optimized for efficiency, spatial constraints, and overall performance. With a vertically integrated engineering and manufacturing model, we pair rapid design turnaround with precision fabrication, so customers can move faster on complex projects where reliability, timeline, and quality all matter.

At Gradian, you'll work alongside others who get genuinely fired up by complex problems, see your work go from first sketch to job site in weeks, not years, and know that while we're developing the technologies critical for AI infrastructure to scale, our culture remains people-first by design.

It is core to our identity that we operate as one team — driving to win together, energizing others, and building lasting relationships that make the work fun and rewarding.

The Materials Manager is responsible for leading all materials management functions within a large, multi-product manufacturing facility. This role ensures the uninterrupted flow of materials from suppliers through warehouse operations, production, and customer shipment while optimizing inventory, on-time delivery, and manufacturing efficiency.

The Materials Manager provides leadership for Production Planning, Inventory Control, Warehouse Operations, Material Flow, Logistics, and ERP-driven planning processes. This position is accountable for maintaining factory Clear-to-Build readiness, executing production schedules, mitigating material shortages, and driving continuous improvement across the end-to-end supply chain.

The successful candidate will be a strategic and hands‑on leader capable of balancing customer demand, operational capacity, inventory investment, and supply chain performance in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

• Foster a culture of safety, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Lead and develop teams responsible for Production Planning, Inventory Control, Warehouse Operations, Material Handling, and Logistics.
• Establish performance objectives and accountability measures for all materials functions.
• Coach and develop supervisors, planners, warehouse leaders, and materials personnel.
• Partner closely with Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Customer Service leadership teams.
• Drive cross-functional problem solving and decision making to support factory performance objectives.

• Lead the execution of the Master Production Schedule (MPS) to meet customer demand and operational objectives.
• Ensure production schedules are optimized based on labor, material, equipment, and capacity constraints.
• Manage production planning activities across multiple product lines and manufacturing cells.
• Monitor schedule attainment and implement recovery plans when production performance falls below targets.
• Facilitate daily, weekly, and monthly planning reviews.
• Support SIOP/S&OP…