Materials Supervisor

Materials Supervisor

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related degree field. In lieu of degree, consideration for up to 4 years of additional related experience may be accepted as a trade-off.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience. Prior supervisory and/or project management experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Advanced SAP/SAP-BW knowledge preferred.
• Ability to establish work standards and expectations for self and others to include assigning and delegating work to others to accomplish goals.
• Skilled in task prioritization and ability to adjust priorities as business needs dictate.
• Demonstrates ability to effectively communicate orally to individuals and groups. Strong level of attention to detail.
• Ability to process data logically, analyze and provide recommendations.
• Ability to resolve conflicts in a positive and constructive manner dealing effectively with employee relations issues, attending to morale and organization climate issues, and taking disciplinary actions when other means have not been successful.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Occasionally may require regional travel (10-15%).

Responsibilities

• Supervises materials team to ensure the effective utilization of manufacturing systems to support NBS objectives.
• Maintains lead time report and system lead times.
• Generates processes that provide material supply to support on time delivery to customer request, inventory and financial goals.
• Communicates with operations frequently on issues affecting production, shipping deadlines, sales deliveries and backlog, life cycle planning or other business matters.
• Supports best practice and develops standard work to properly train materials team and maintain within the area of responsibility. Aligns materials team goals to support team growth and development.
• Partners with Operations and other functions to: Maintain material master data that provides product flow and delivery information. Support New Product Development (NPD) and transfers into assigned areas. Support short and long term product requirements through production processes. Drive NBS initiatives and other projects.
• Manages supplier relationships and communication with operations. Supervise materials activities including schedule agreement settings for Commitment, Minimum, and Delivery quantities and the C-stock program. Coordinate with SCM on source selection, escalation of expedites, and operation objectives.
• Oversees customer order expedites by working with order management, customer service, intercompany subsidiaries, production, and SCM.
• Supports Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives, including: Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs), and projects Implement Kanban to support manufacturing operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior supervisory and/or project management experience preferred.
• Advanced SAP/SAP-BW knowledge preferred.