Materials Manager

Relocation: Candidates must be able to relocate

Job Type: Full-Time

On the Heels of Achieving 3X Growth, Virginia Transformer Is Hiring to Do It Again!

We’re strategically building our team for the next 3X growth cycle—a phase that is both intense and incredibly rewarding. We’re highly selective about who joins us because this journey isn’t for everyone.

If you have the drive, grit, and expertise to perform at a high level—and you want to grow your career 3X alongside the company’s growth,we’d love to talk.

Virginia Transformer is the largest U.S.

-owned producer of power transformers in North America. We have grown for more than 50 years through an unwavering focus on delivering for our customers.

We are more than 5,400 people strong and are known throughout the industry as an engineering company that manufactures premium-quality transformers with some of the shortest lead times in the industry.

As a privately held, organically growing company, we thrive on nimbleness, innovation, and tenacity.

If you love the thrill of securing the U.S. electric grid, enabling manufacturing throughout the country, and the energy of a fast-moving train, this is the place for you.

We train hard, grow together, and lead with purpose. Every transformer we build is custom, every challenge is unique, and every team member is essential.

The Supply Chain Materials Manager is responsible for ensuring the timely and effective procurement, acquisition, receipt, storage, and availability of materials, goods, and services required to support Virginia Transformer’s products and operations.

This position is responsible for the overall management of the purchasing, materials planning, warehouse, and inventory control functions in alignment with the company’s business plans, operational requirements, and budgetary parameters.

The Supply Chain Materials Manager will lead the plant’s materials organization and ensure that purchasing, inventory, warehouse, scheduling, and material-flow processes support production schedules and customer delivery commitments.

• Ensure materials are procured according to production requirements, company policies, approved procedures, and budgetary guidelines.
• Schedule and direct the daily activities of the Purchasing and Inventory Control departments.
• Ensure the timely and effective procurement, delivery, receipt, storage, and availability of materials.
• Develop and maintain procurement standards that support cost containment and other company goals.
• Maintain accurate records of vendor performance, pricing, and cost history.
• Track key internal and external cost indicators to identify material-cost changes and market trends.
• Advise management regarding material-cost changes and supply conditions that may affect the business.
• Maintain material costs and inventory levels in accordance with the Virginia Transformer business plan and management directives.

• Establish and maintain the master production schedule and other manufacturing-planning functions.
• Coordinate material availability with production schedules and customer delivery requirements.
• Ensure processes involving hot lists, EPPM, shortage reports, kitting, and related material-planning activities are followed according to standard operating procedures.
• Identify material shortages, delivery risks, and production constraints before they affect operations.
• Keep management informed of issues that could affect production, cost, quality, or customer delivery.

• Ensure warehouse processes are controlled and supported by accurate material accounting.
• Establish and maintain a perpetual inventory system for all production materials, supplies, and expendable items.
• Maintain accurate inventory records, transactions, locations, and balances.
• Ensure plant metrics related to inventory levels, inbound freight, material delays, shortages, and inventory accuracy are achieved.
• Review bill-of-material releases against slow-moving, obsolete, or accumulated inventory for potential use on current or future production orders.
• Recommend and conduct periodic reviews of…