Materials Supervisor

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The Materials Supervisor is responsible for all internal material flow from incoming receiving/inspection to line side presentation for production including end-of-line pick, pack and ship, de-trashing, all material movements, supermarket sizing and replenishment, and order picking for intra-plant deliveries. Success in this role is defined by driving significant continuous improvement in material handling, inventory accuracy, cycle counting and timely transactional reporting. This will be measured by ongoing improvements in delivery performance (internal and external), cycle count progress, cycle count accuracy, uninterrupted material movement for production lines and efficient use of labor resources.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 2 years of materials leadership
• 2 years of experience leading teams, developing people or organizing tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience using SAP or equivalent ERP system (Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics) and Microsoft Office.
• Formal leadership or team development training.
• Oversee inventory management and control, accuracy, and established inventory guidelines and procedures.

Essential Duties

• Ensure timely material flow within the facility as well as timely delivery in receiving material from other locations as well as preparation for shipment of parts to other facilities.
• Develop and implement standard process and strategies that enable production efficiency improvements.
• Lead, Supervise, and direct materials staff development through education, training, coaching, mentoring and certification in the execution of improvement priorities and the achievement of key performance indicators.
• Manage and optimize daily warehousing operations including staging, cycle count, and storage of materials.
• Ensure efficient and accurate materials presentation to support production operations.
• Partner with Quality, Purchasing and Production to develop effective and efficient solutions to customer quality and delivery issues and to achieve objectives and KPIs.
• Ensure high level of communication between planning, purchasing and production to ensure a high degree of customer satisfaction
• Lead and improve Material/Inventory Management best practices including Warehouse Management (Cycle Count Accuracy, Transactions, Bar Coding, RFID) and Fill Rate.
• Maintain appropriate staffing levels for daily material management balancing resource capacity to workload.
• Act as SAP SuperUser within functional area as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Relationship Building and Earning Trust – Consistently follows through on team commitments, communicates, and demonstrates accountability. Builds trust and sets the example for the team by being inclusive and fair.
• Accountability – Remains outcome focused, holding the team accountable while removing barriers to success.
• Plays to win by defining team objectives/scope and clear milestones. Keeps leadership apprised of progress and brings options/solutions for issues when elevated.
• Ask, Listen, and Follow Up – Actively listens, questions to help others understand, shows care/concern, and closes loop. Drives action and alignment using coaching techniques, reinforces team's progress/development.
• Inspire, Motivate and Recognize – Teaches others new tasks and is self- aware of strengths/developmental opportunities. Celebrates individual successes.
• Conflict Management and Resolution – Influences employees to collaborate and achieve goals as a group.
• Asks questions, remains unbiased and encourages unconventional suggestions. Diffuses conflict as it arises rather than avoiding it and focuses on solving the problem.
• Identify, Engage and Retain – Creates an open and honest work environment, providing others an opportunity to develop and grow.
• Change Agent – Consistently optimistic about the ability to change in order to improve a product/service.
• Uses the voice of customer (VOC) to validate ideas. Works well autonomously and in a team, leads change by promoting the value of transformation.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Electric Power Generation

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