Materials Coordinator

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Challenge Manufacturing’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day;

they are the true driving force in our operations.

Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program, which allows us to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success!

The primary responsibility of the Materials Coordinator is to data mine, verify, and elevate issues as appropriate to ensure the plant has the necessary inventory levels to support production plans to meet safety stock quantities and ultimately customer demand. They will assist the Materials Manager to achieve departmental objectives and customer satisfaction through ensuring delivery and production plans are put in place that will minimize if not eliminate production disruptions.

Additionally, the Materials Coordinator will monitor outside processes and tier 2 suppliers to ensure on-time delivery to Challenge.

• Maximize on-time material availability across plant for all projects and departments.
• Confirm, follow-up, and expedite planned purchase orders to meet required material delivery dates necessary to meet on-time delivery performance to support production requirements.
• Track critical parts and develop/executions delivery plans to ensure no interruptions or downtime to manufacturing line.
• Analyze MRP and production schedules to identify potential material shortage issues well in advance and initiate appropriate corrective action and escalation as required.
• Monitor outsourced processes to ensure delivery to plants in order to avoid production disruptions.
• Monitor inventory levels at subcontracted processes and ensure production plans of inventory.
• Accum Management for interplant requirements.
• Follow-up on internal production scheduling to ensure plans prevent interruptions to manufacturing line.
• Support inventory management – reporting inventory levels as required.
• Manage excess and obsolete inventory including buildout requirements.
• Perform special projects and other related duties as assigned.
• Develop and improve plant level KPIs.

This will be a 2nd Shift / 11AM‑7PM M‑F position located at our facility in Holland, MI.

Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests.

• Highly organized with solid technology and systems understanding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; represent Challenge Manufacturing during all external and internal customer interactions.
• High standards of performance for self; take responsibility for actions, results, and mistakes.
• Thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks; demonstrate honesty and integrity in all aspects of work.
• Maintain positive relationships by constructively resolving conflicts.
• Use feedback from others to continuously improve performance and work relationships.
• Flexibility to move within own and/or other work areas to support plant flow.
• Work with sense of urgency to meet needs of external customers and internal processes.
• Maintain knowledge and skills to perform job effectively.
• Approach change as positive learning opportunity.
• Look for good in others; collaborate and share information and knowledge.
• Maintain presence when scheduled and ensure coverage when absent; take timely breaks/lunches; use time wisely.

We’re excited…