Senior Materials Manager

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Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $ Annually

The Senior Materials Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for inventory control, material planning, receiving, warehousing, and material flow supporting the Faribault manufacturing operation. This role owns materials performance, develops leaders and team capability, aligns materials strategy with production and business priorities, and partners across Operations, Supply Chain, Scheduling, Quality, Engineering, and Finance to improve service, inventory accuracy, working capital, cost, safety, and scalability.

The Senior Materials Manager establishes standards, metrics, and continuous improvement priorities while ensuring reliable material availability to support customer commitments and growth.

• Own the site materials strategy, operating plan, budget, and performance objectives in alignment with business and production priorities.
• Lead and develop the materials organization, including receiving, warehousing, inventory control, picking, kitting, staging, and material delivery.
• Build organizational capability through workforce planning, coaching, succession planning, cross-training, and development of Materials leaders and front‑line employees.
• Partner with Operations and Production Scheduling to translate demand and capacity plans into reliable material availability and execution priorities.
• Ensure materials are received, transacted, stored, issued, transferred, and delivered accurately and on time in Epicor 10 ERP.
• Establish governance for inventory accuracy, cycle counting, root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, and transaction discipline.
• Drive measurable improvement in inventory accuracy, shortages, schedule attainment, internal delivery, and material‑related downtime.
• Lead efforts to reduce excess and obsolete inventory, improve turns, optimize storage capacity, and strengthen working‑capital performance.
• Develop and maintain key performance indicators, visual management, and regular business reviews for the materials function.
• Lead cross‑functional problem solving for critical shortages, supplier disruptions, quality issues, engineering changes, and production constraints.
• Partner with Supply Chain and strategic suppliers to improve inbound flow, delivery reliability, freight efficiency, and risk mitigation.
• Ensure supplier quality concerns and material nonconformances are escalated, contained, and resolved with Quality and Supply Chain.
• Establish standardized work, policies, controls, and work instructions that support consistent execution and audit readiness.
• Sponsor and implement scalable process and technology improvements, including barcoding, Kanban/e‑Kanban, warehouse optimization, and ERP enhancements.
• Provide leadership for materials‑related capital projects, layout changes, system implementations, and growth initiatives.
• Ensure subcontracting and outsourcing processes maintain inventory accuracy, traceability, cost control, and timely material movement.
• Optimize receiving, warehousing, supermarket, point‑of‑use, and production‑floor replenishment processes.
• Partner with Finance on inventory valuation, reserves, physical inventory, variance review, and financial controls.
• Anticipate materials risks and create recovery plans that protect production schedules and customer commitments.
• Champion Lean principles, Daily Gemba, tiered accountability, and continuous improvement across the materials organization.
• Ensure compliance with safety, PPE, material handling, and environmental requirements while actively promoting a safe workplace.
• Communicate…