Materials Manager

Bennington is the market leading pontoon boat manufacturer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaris Industries, a Fortune 500 company. We pride ourselves on delivering a boating experience that’s second to none through our emphasis on innovation, design, product quality, and relentless focus on customer satisfaction. Our team members live that passion every day and have fueled our growth across 6 buildings in Elkhart, IN.

The Materials Manager is responsible for material movement within the facility(s) by coordinating and leading the receiving, warehousing, and shipping of product in a manner consistent with company service and cost objectives. This role will supervise materials personnel to ensure safe, clean, and efficient operation of the material movement within the production facilities. Be a ‘hands-on’ and working leader.

• Maintain safe and clean work environment. Train personnel on processes and procedures.

• Strong support and presence during production hours.

• Work with engineering for end of life awareness to minimize obsolete inventory.

• Lead team in managing material movement and transfers for multiple locations.

• Plan the work and monitor performance – determine the techniques to be used and apportion the work among employees to ensure adherence to build standards and stay on schedule to replenish materials.

• Drive and manager WIP inventory & kitting supermarket levels to ensure effective support to production

• Assists with system implementation issues relative to the master scheduling process.

• Develop and implement department goals assuring customer service levels, inventory investment, and capacity utilization are met.

• Plans layout of storage areas, considering turnover, size, weight, and related factors of items stored.

• Sustain inventory accuracy by ensuring that transactions are initiated timely and accurately.

• Lead department level improvement initiatives and projects, implement and sustain work process standardization.

• Analyze data, investigate issues, identify solutions, and recommend actions to improve KPI targets.

• Support recommending and effectively implementing employee discipline and promotion.

• Determine/control the flow and initiate requisition for materials, supplies, equipment, and tools needed by the team.

• Drive receiving efficiencies, accuracies, and reduce material wait times.

• Manage daily transit of materials between plants for all inventory and non-inventory items.

• Manage truck shipments as required.

• Manage an effective PIT program.

• Drive cycle count process efficiencies and effectiveness.

• Initiate shipping claims as appropriate for damaged or lost parts.

• Analyze and determine all standards for packaging lines and ensure compliance to all schedules for processes and develop and maintain all packing orders effectively.

• Maintain and present materials related to KPI’s .

• Lead the team in continuous improvement opportunities to minimize inventory and supply chain costs through lean initiatives, identifying solutions; efficient/effective solutions to increase productivity and limit errors.

• Contribute to Bennington cultural vision including but not limited to working in a positive fashion with teammates and leadership, taking initiative, and having ownership of work.

• Flexible, performs other duties as assigned.