What are the responsibilities and job description for the Materials Managaer position at KPS Global?
Materials Manager
Business Overview
KPS Global (KPSG) is the North American industry leader in the manufacture, production, and installation of Walk-in Coolers and Freezers. KPSG’s end-product serves many channels within the retail food market as well as industrial applications. KPSG is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas with most support activities centralized in the Fort Worth facility. KPSG maintains product manufacturing in five locations: San Dimas, CA; Fort Worth, TX; Piney Flats, TN; Conyers, GA and Goodyear, AZ.
Summary
The Materials Manager is responsible for managing inventory and purchasing procedures of raw materials and other supplies within a company. Material managers collaborate with other managers to determine supply needs, purchase supplies and materials according to specifications and coordinate and supervise receiving procedures.
Job Responsibilities
- Supervises the daily operations to include but not limited to inventory control, receiving, storage, quality control, and problem resolution.
- Oversees work allocation, training and development; evaluates performance and makes recommendations for personnel actions; motivates employees to achieve peak productivity and performance.
- Train new hires and other personnel on warehouse processes and procedures.
- Gathers data for analysis regarding usage, quality, pricing, lead time and manufacturing capability.
- Controls Material department budget.
- Verifies perpetual inventory against physical count of stock and adjusts errors in computation or count, and investigates and reports reasons for discrepancies and variances in inventory records
- Works on projects to improve quality, cycle time, process variation and efficiency.
- Maintains optimum inventory levels to ensure on-time deliveries to meet customer requirements
- Establishes procedures and controls for managing effective cycle counting program and prepares operation for regularly scheduled physical inventory counts.
- Interfaces with product line coordinators on the planning and forecasting of customer orders to meet shipments
- Ensures that the company standard practices and procedures are followed in connection with all materials department functions
- Work with management to identify supply needs.
- Recommend solutions to existing processes to reduce waste and increase quantity.
- Record and assess all materials quality, movement, and expenditure.
- Collaborate with management to plan forecasting models.
- Ensure uninterrupted flow of material (success will demand solid relationships with Supply Chain)
- Ensure the customer fulfillment process and logistical requirements are met daily
- 100% Receiving Inspection accuracy & transaction timeliness
- Re-align the Material Handler/Coordinator new job duties
- Collaborate with Operation Managers to ensure performance evaluations are timely and accurate.
- Implement & defined replenishment strategies within Microsoft GBOS - ERP system, & refine with history
- Oversees stock item master, identifying incorrect descriptions, BOM errors and stock numbers
- Own, refine, and implement Cycle count program. Lead reconciliation process with Accounting
- Implement KPI’s for tracking purpose: i.e. Warehouse accuracy 95% or better, safety rate, productivity, pallets per hour, cases per hour
- Direct the timely purchasing resources through the purchasing staff for different manufacturing plant needs
- Coordinate production planning and control, inventory, and traffic process for business units
- Direct and participate in a continuous improvement program
- Acting as a liaison between manufacturing locations and related functional departments
- Participate in management reviews of the system
- Participate in quality planning for division and for areas of responsibility
- Source and update requirements with vendors on a weekly basis
Salary : $71,800 - $91,000
