Materials Manager

Description Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Material Control Supervisors across all sites to deliver and control all material being utilized in the production and assembly of trailers and chassis products.
• Establish and implement plans for material presentation, delivery, and management of material from receipts to shipments.
• Work cross functionally with Supply Chain team and Suppliers to implement Kanbans and lean methods to manage material from supplier site to assembly.
• Establish and implement plans for storage of material within each site utilizing lean principles.
• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
• Prepare customer delivery reports by collecting, analysing, and summarising information and trends and use that information to proactively communicate potential late deliveries.
• Establish and supervise production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining, and assembly operations to ensure 100% on‑time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedules to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Be responsible for the accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, an inventory control system capable of identifying discrepancies and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies.
• Achieve financial objectives by working with management to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyse variances and initiate corrective actions.
• Participate in MRB and CAR meetings to resolve quality issues working with both internal and external resources.
• Collaborate with Purchasing, Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering, and Quality to achieve cost‑reduction targets.
• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining, and aligning company policies that adhere to local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations.
• Attend scheduled work hours on a regular and timely basis. Maintain good attendance.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures.
• Work and communicate as a team. Contribute to a team effort.
• Other duties may be assigned as required by the Company.

Above is a list of the most important responsibilities and functions, which are essential to the position. Employees must be able to perform these essential functions satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Accommodations will be evaluated and provided to eligible employees on a case‑by‑case basis, depending on the employee’s medical restrictions, work availability, the nature of the position, the position’s essential functions and other relevant factors.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in business, management, or other related discipline.
• Licenses/Certifications:
  
  APICS certification a plus.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in management of materials and logistics within a design and manufacturing environment.
• Experience in Lean, total quality, Six Sigma, or other similar environments.
• Working knowledge and understanding of ERP/MRP systems and their use in a manufacturing environment, forecasting, order policy codes, etc.
• Working knowledge of line‑side inventory, pull systems (Kanban), and supplier‑managed inventory.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
• Ability to demonstrate solid written and oral communication skills.
• Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends.
• Identify tools, processes and metrics to optimise supplier value.
• Ability to contribute in a cross‑functional collaborative environment.
• Good technical writing, documentation, and record‑keeping skills.
• Financial skills including cost modelling, cost analysis, make‑vs‑buy analysis.
• Ability to leverage metrics and other tools to drive supplier performance.

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