Materials Manager

Prestige Staffing Services is seeking a strong leader with 5+ years of Materials Management experience for a direct hire opportunity with excellent benefits in the greater Fort Wayne area.  

Primary Responsibilities include:

• Management of material planning, material control, scheduling, and purchasing functions including customer service, production planning, procurement, storage and distribution of material and product
  
• Drive activities critical to plant performance by managing various projects to instill excellence and best practices.
  
• Control department expenses, increase productivity, elevate service to customers, and further competitive advantage
  
• Oversees and ensures proper production control planning and scheduling programs to meet sales forecasts and to balance the level of manpower and machine requirements.
  
• Develops and implements visual inventory management systems on the production floor.
  
• Integration of sales forecasts, budgets raw, in process, and finished goods inventory.
  
• Manage departmental expenses and appropriation requests within budget while focusing on continuous improvement opportunities
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred
  
• 5+ years of Materials Management experience
  
• Advanced MS Office including Excel. Oracle/SAP proficiency a plus.