Materials Manager jobs in Georgia

Position Summary:

The position is responsible for the management of inventory, purchasing, and scheduling. This position support production’s success while ensuring our goods are ready and on time for distribution in a profitable manner.

Essential Functions

• Establish, monitor, and achieve departmental performance measurements and goals. Make suggestions for improvements such as cost reduction, process efficiency, quality, and productivity.
• Maintain data and report metrics related to on-time supplier and customer delivery performance; suggest corrective actions.
• Manage and train purchasing and inventory team members. Ensure cross-training is in place for business process continuity during employee absences.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Planning & Scheduling

• Collaborate with production management to identify and maintain inventory resources needed to provide an effective and efficient flow of materials to meet the production schedule.
• Interact with shop floor management daily to resolve issues and provide additional information related to supply of materials as needed.
• Manage and facilitate scheduling changes as necessary while also communicating schedule status with customers via web-based portal.
• Lead production scheduling meetings to ensure schedule continuity, production planning review, and provide inventory and purchasing input.
• Monitor shop floor production status daily and update the estimated delivery schedule in Syspro for all orders.
• Review newly released shop packs, complete confirmation process for work orders, and assign dates in Syspro.

Inventory

• Manage inventory control, receiving, and materials storage. Ensure the inbound quality inspection process is accurate and complete.
• Maintain required quantity of supplies and materials to optimize production and achieve planned order completion dates.
• Monitor feedlines and TW kit levels for iron hearts. Create work orders as needed for these items.
• Monitor allocation levels for Ironheart critical parts (spools, headers, control panels and pumps). Communicate with suppliers and create requisitions and work orders as needed for these items.
• Prepare and monitor shortage reports and coordinate with purchasing to get material in time.
• Perform final review of work orders prior to shipment and make any material issuance corrections as needed.
• Ensure controls are in place to safeguard inventory.
• Maintain and ensure accuracy of the perpetual inventory.
• Manage all cycle counts including stock parts (daily), raw materials (monthly), and bench stock (quarterly). Review variances and maintain status reports ensuring variances remain below APICS standard of /-2%.
• Manage successful execution of the year-end full physical inventory process. Work with accounting and auditors to ensure proper completion of all tasks and that variances remain APICS standard of /-2%.
• Identify opportunities to reduce materials and consumable costs and charges.
• Analyze current inventory receiving, movement, storage, and procedures; suggest improvements to increase efficiency and profitability for the company.

Purchasing

• Run and analyze Materials Resource Planning (MRP). Provide input to purchasing team for creation of purchase orders related to stocked items as well as those specifically for jobs.
• Manage purchasing and sourcing with focus on diversifying vendor base and leveraging supplier relationships to improve cost mechanisms such as net terms, rebates, and agreements.
• Monitor the performance of suppliers, assessing their ability to meet cost, quality, and delivery requirements.
• Identify new or alternative suppliers of materials, equipment and/or supplies as necessary. Determine product requirements, pricing, and terms of sale.
• Develop policies to increase efficiency of the purchasing process while ensuring quality and safety; execute action that ensure improvements to processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field.
• 2 years’ ERP and MRP experience, Syspro preferred.
• Advanced Lean Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma certification
• Excellent knowledge of production planning and quality control principles
• Ability to administer multiple projects and deadlines.
• Results-oriented with high level of integrity and dependability.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills with a proven ability to create and maintain positive working relationships with vendors, suppliers, shippers, and customers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Strong computer aptitude, including Microsoft Office Suite.