What are the responsibilities and job description for the Materials Manager position at Masterack Vehicles?
Department: Masterack Operations
Reports to: Director of Materials
Employment Status - Full time
Location: 1 Waters Drive
Social Circle, GA 30025.
Job Summary:
The Materials Manager schedules and coordinates the efficient distribution of material, establishes and maintains inventory accuracy, and aligns Customer Demand and Operation Capacity to fill Orders Ontime and Complete. Their duties include analysis of Inventory Valuation and Accuracy status to Goal, manage PFEP Rotating Cycle Counts and daily material transactions, and utilization of the Master Schedule CRP to manage work orders and increase planned material flow with Shipping schedules.
Essential Functions:
Reports to: Director of Materials
Employment Status - Full time
Location: 1 Waters Drive
Social Circle, GA 30025.
Job Summary:
The Materials Manager schedules and coordinates the efficient distribution of material, establishes and maintains inventory accuracy, and aligns Customer Demand and Operation Capacity to fill Orders Ontime and Complete. Their duties include analysis of Inventory Valuation and Accuracy status to Goal, manage PFEP Rotating Cycle Counts and daily material transactions, and utilization of the Master Schedule CRP to manage work orders and increase planned material flow with Shipping schedules.
Essential Functions:
- Avoid Customer Backlog by looking a minimum of one week out on customer orders, using the Open Order Report, to ensure that all materials are on hand and flowing.
- Identify daily material priorities for JDE Sales Orders measured by P/N, quantity, ship to, and due date through both Production and Purchasing from suppliers to satisfy customer needs.
- Generate weekly Production Schedule as Capacity Resource Planning (CRP) to identify and manage material flow in terms of Production demand, Equipment Utilization, and Labor hours.
- Manage both purchased materials into our manufacturing process by documenting shortages on our weekly CRP and into Upfit for readiness of future SOP builds.
- Drive Buyers and Planners to answer daily JDE MRP Messages to ensure correct materials are purchased and arrive when we need them and that work orders are available.
- Identify and maintain JDE system setting Parameters, to achieve sufficient inventory levels are produced and held (safety stock), while avoiding stock out of needed parts and existence of parts without demand.
- Manage Supermarket inventory levels (safety stock) with Sales Department feedback to what customers need.
- Leverage JBPCO Supply Chain resources to reduce supplier lead times and minimum buy quantities larger than demand.
- Create inventory accuracy confidence by managing Rotating Cycle Count PFEP, move by correcting in JDE with viable reasoning for lessons learned, and create culture amongst material handlers to transfer and stage inventory with accuracy as “move it, move it” for availability and upcoming Production.
- Manage Total Inventory Valuation, Aging trends, Disposition of Dormant/Dead Inventory, to support current Goals and project achievable longer-term goals in our weekly Inventory Reduction SWAT Team.
- Continuously work with Production Supervisors and Managers to drive the Priority of what must be built by P/N through metal fab to feed downstream operations in paint, assembly, and shipping for Upfit Builds and Customer Orders out the door.
- Be prepared to identify Production progress to plan with Management during daily Production Meeting and daily Parts Needs Call with Upfit Facilities.
- Identify and escalate Manufacturing bottlenecks with Management.
- Confirm that Material needs, for the next Production work orders, have been physically confirmed according to JDE inventory and that plans/Production timing are identified to coordinate staging. This means looking ahead and identifying if/where inventory inaccuracies exist BEFORE they become high risk and jeopardize Customer Orders.
- Utilize the Strategic Physical Inventory Plan and supervise all physical precounting of inventory that will not move and physical inventory counting during our plant shutdown.
- Develop our Visual Plant Inventory Layout Plan to optimize part routing and minimize catchall bulk inventory locations.
- Identify Demand Horizons, using customer orders, historical order trends, forecasts, to load into the JDE Forecast to establish Equipment Capacity % Utilization vs Production Staffing.
- Follow established safety guidelines, instructions, policies, and procedures.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
- Computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite [Word, Excel, Outlook] and an ERP system (JDE preferred).
- Problem analysis and resolution at both a strategic and functional level.
- A healthy attitude for dealing with people-to-people communication.
- Knowledge and experience in health and safety standards and compliance, production and manufacturing processes, techniques and tools, process improvement techniques, raw materials, quality systems and standards, and practices with solid computer skills.
- Required Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or related field with at least 2 years relevant experience or, 10 years of relevant experience working in a distribution and/or manufacturing position.
- Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life
- 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Vacation, Paid Time OFF (PTO), and 10 paid holidays.
- Generous Footwear, Eyewear, and Safety Equipment Discount Program
- Paid Job and Leadership Development training