Materials Manager - Metro Detroit, Michigan
Day Shift - Pay: $60k-$80k per year
Job Summary of the Materials Manager:
Our customer is seeking a highly skilled Materials Manager to join their team, which is a precision CNC machined metal parts manufacturing facility. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing all materials management activities through ERP systems. The Materials Manager will ensure timely delivery of raw materials, equipment, work-in-process, and finished goods to support production schedules and meet customer demands. The candidate must have experience working in a precision metal parts manufacturing environment and have a strong understanding of ERP systems.
Responsibilities of the Materials Manager:Materials & ERP Management:
- Accountable for all materials management activities through ERP to ensure "zero lates" and on-time deliver performance
- Responsible for controlling and directing the procurement, transportation, storage, and distribution of raw materials and equipment, work in process, and finished goods
- Monitor the flow of materials and products from their initial receipt, through production and warehousing stages
- Ensure raw material is ordered ahead of future orders and demand
- Own the ERP system in relation to Materials/Inventory/Purchasing
Customer & Vendor Coordination:
- Interact with suppliers and customers to ensure demand signals are understood and executed as customer build rates change with market influences
- Access customer portals to upload the latest delivery schedules into ERP System
- Send daily production counts and shipment pickup confirmations to customers
- Coordinate with raw material vendors, customers, and outsourced operation vendors to ensure smooth flow of operations
- Schedule truck for pickups and drop-offs of parts to and from subcontract operations
Shipping & Packaging Oversight:
- Direct the packaging team's daily priorities and monitor progress throughout the day
- Review shipper picklists in ERP System and confirm parts are packed and staged for upcoming shipments
Continuous Improvement & Leadership:
- Identify actual or potential areas of difficulty and recommend action to remedy these problems
- Assess and evaluate schedule execution across production processes and develop strategies that, when implemented, drive change that help the team meet delivery objectives, improve operational efficiencies, and overall cost effectiveness
- Coordinate with Quality on issues and participate in Layered Process Audits (LPAs) and management audits
- Develop and mentor direct reports for professional development and succession
Qualifications of the Materials Manager:- 4+ years of progressive manufacturing and operations experience in precision metal parts manufacturing environment
- Must possess a keen understanding of precision metal parts manufacturing, including blueprint reading, metallurgy and raw material procurement, metal fabrication and CNC machining such as saw cut, lathe turning, milling, and grinding operations
- Experience planning operations in a low-volume, high-mix, high-process complexity parts manufacturing environment
- Must have a solid understanding of ERP systems and the specific process competencies and overall process complexity to build immediate creditability with colleagues, customers, and suppliers
- Hands-on experience managing daily shipping/packaging operations and coordinating outbound logistics, including scheduling trucking for pickups and deliveries
- Comfortable working directly in customer portals to manage delivery schedules and communicate shipment status
- Strong leadership with a focus on developing process and structure to drive operational improvement
- Excellent mentoring and communication skills while driving a sense of urgency
- Excellent computer skills, written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated working experience with customer EDI and forecasts, MRP, ERP, and DCP in a Business Operating System
- Fluent in the application of Lean Methodologies and tools (APQP, Standardized Work, OEE, 5S, and ToC) in a TPS environment
A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.
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