Material Control Supervisor

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

The Material Control Supervisor provides direct leadership and operational oversight for the Material Coordinator function supporting manufacturing operations. This position is responsible for ensuring material coordination activities are effectively executed across assigned production areas, including material readiness, production-order support, inventory and ERP data integrity, shortage management, prioritization, and timely escalation of material-related risks.

The Material Control Supervisor leads and develops Material Coordinators by establishing expectations, balancing workload and coverage, providing coaching and training, monitoring performance, and ensuring consistent execution of established processes. The Material Control Supervisor serves as the primary leadership point for the Material Coordinator function and works cross-functionally with Production, Planning/Scheduling, Logistics/Storeroom, Quality, Engineering, program coordination, and other supporting organizations to remove material barriers, improve material flow, maintain system accuracy, and support production execution.

The role participates in the Tier 2 weekly planning review representing material readiness and constraint visibility, and sits within MDO Integrated Planning.

• Lead, coach, and develop Material Coordinators. Establish performance expectations, provide feedback, conduct performance management activities, identify training and cross-training needs, and promote accountability and consistent execution across the team.
• Oversee daily material coordination activities across supported production areas. Balance workload, staffing, coverage, and priorities to ensure appropriate support for production requirements and changing operational needs.
• Maintain oversight of Material Coordinator processes and expectations related to ERP transactions, inventory accuracy, material movements, production orders, documentation, and data integrity. Identify systemic issues and coordinate corrective actions with supporting functions.
• Develop and standardize Material Coordinator processes, SOPs, training, and standard work. Partner with Production, Planning/Scheduling, Logistics/Storeroom, Quality, Engineering, program coordination, and leadership to improve material flow, eliminate recurring issues, and support operational initiatives.
• Participate in planning cadence and represent material readiness. Attend the Tier 2 weekly planning review representing material readiness and constraint visibility.
• Coordinate with Production Schedulers on release decisions involving material-short orders, weighing schedule risk against the cost of waiting. Communicate priority decisions back to the Material Coordinator team.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify systemic issues and coordinate corrective actions. Ability to develop and implement standard work, procedures, training, and process improvements. Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to work effectively with Production, Planning/Scheduling, Logistics/Storeroom, Quality, Engineering, program coordination, and leadership. Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience in material coordination, production control, inventory operations, manufacturing operations, logistics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience resolving complex material, inventory, production-support, or ERP-related issues.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP, S/4
  
  HANA, EWM, Oracle, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing material flow, inventory control, production orders, bills of material, consumption, material movements, and production-support processes.
• Ability to evaluate workload, staffing requirements, production priorities, and coverage needs.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Desired

Skills:

• Previous leadership, lead, supervisory, or demonstrated…