What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Materials Manager position at Nishikawa Cooper LLC?
SUMMARY
Supervises and coordinates activities of expediting flow of material, parts, and assemblies within or between departments of industrial plant, and of Production Planners engaged in scheduling production operations by performing the following duties:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain a positive attitude, be a team player and exhibit high integrity at all times
- Maintains the MRP process
- Builds and maintains plant master schedule.
- Schedules and orders all incoming materials for production use.
- Evaluates written data such as job orders, product specifications, operations sheets, parts and materials inventory lists, machine rates, and worker production rates to establish efficient allocation and scheduling of parts, materials, machines, and sequences of operations and workflow.
- Confers with production personnel to resolve problems affecting production schedules
- Issues written and oral instructions
- Maintains effective customer relations
- Studies and standardizes procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates
- Adjusts errors and complaints
- Establishes and maintains inventory control
- Maintains housekeeping in work area
- Strives for continuous improvement in all areas of material management
- Must maintain regular and acceptable attendance in accordance with our attendance policy
- Must be committed to a high standard of safety and be willing to comply with all safety laws and all of our safety policies and rules.
- Access to customer portals and comply with customer requirements.
- Access, review and follow up on customer scorecard.
- Responsible for conformity to product requirements and has the authority to stop production to correct quality problems.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four- year college or university
Five (5) to seven (7) years experience in the automotive manufacturing industry
Experience managing MRP and the materials process from cradle to grave in an manufacturing environment.
APICS Certification preferred
Experience with Customer portals (Honda, Toyota, etc.)
