Material Supervisor

Overview About Modular Mission Critical

Modular Mission Critical is the manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean’s complex, modular product line for datacenters and critical infrastructure. Located just north of Richmond, VA, this site is growing fast serving customers worldwide. Important openings include assemblers for our production lines and engineers and designers for products and continuous improvement. Join M.C. Dean’s more than 9,000 employees around the world making an impact through innovations in power and technology.

Our people are passionate about innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values - agility, expertise, and trust we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment for employees to build long- term careers.

The Materials Supervisor oversees assigned materials management functions for the Market Place, MMC Warehouse, Receiving, docks, storage/staging areas, and line-side material flow. This role supervises a defined team of materials personnel and ensures material handling, inventory transactions, storage, cycle counts, physical inventory, and distribution activities are accurate, timely, and aligned to production priorities.

The position executes priorities set by the Materials Manager, monitors functional KPIs and metrics, enforces process compliance, and supports accurate inventory control systems. The Materials Supervisor collaborates with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Management, Program Management, Procurement, and Scheduling to resolve material issues, support ECNs and launches, and improve material flow within defined M1 leadership scope.

• Supervise 10-15 direct reports across the Market Place, MMC Warehouse, Receiving, docks, and assigned storage/staging areas; manage time and attendance, employee performance, coaching, and process compliance.
• Train and monitor materials personnel to ensure inventory transactions, material deliveries, receiving, staging, storage, and system updates are completed correctly and on time.
• Manage material flow across production, procurement, external distributors, suppliers, facility transfers, docks, and 30K staging to support timely material availability.
• Maintain inventory accuracy by supervising cycle counts, physical inventory, audits, bin and transaction reconciliations, and corrective actions for variances, shortages, excess/negative inventory, and container discrepancies.
• Create and use reports, dashboards, and analysis to monitor material KPIs, marketplace shortages, inventory accuracy, usage trends, stock levels, and process compliance.
• Maintain organized material storage and point-of-use presentation through 5S, visual inventory systems, FIFO, stock rotation, labeling, repack activities, Kanban, pull-loop adjustments, and Min/Max recommendations.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Management, Program Management, Procurement, and Scheduling on work cell layout, line-side presentation, edit reports, new SKUs, ECNs, new model launches, and build-out projects.
• Support Kaizen events, process creation or updates, practical best practices, and continuous improvement efforts that improve inventory accuracy, material flow, space utilization, productivity, and quality.
• Aid and back up the Materials Manager as needed; make routine operational decisions within assigned scope and elevate higher-risk issues, resource constraints, or cross-functional conflicts as appropriate.
• This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and responsibilities. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related field.
• 5+ years of front-line supervisory experience in a high-volume manufacturing, warehouse, materials management, or supply chain environment.
• Experience supervising material handling, warehouse, receiving, dock, inventory control, or production support employees.
• Detailed understanding of MRP/ERP or inventory control systems, inventory…