What are the responsibilities and job description for the Materials Supervisor position at Morgan Truck Body?
Location: Morgantown PA
How You Will Make an Impact?
Morgan Truck Body is currently seeking a Materials Supervisor for our local manufacturing facility. This position will manage and oversee the receipt, storage, pick, and delivery operations of materials from suppliers to the warehouse, production lines and regional facilities. This role will motivate, manage, and measure the performance of warehouse staff against productivity and quality KPIs while ensuring the safety of all employees.
The Nuts and Bolts
1. Lead team meetings and communicate goals to the floor
2. Monitor and measure performance
3. Provide proper coaching to motivate workforce and increase retention
4. Improves methods and processes to increase productivity and quality while reducing costs
5. Conduct regular training sessions to ensure all employees are properly trained in their functions
6. Create a cross-training matrix to ensure backups are in place
7. Increase inventory accuracy through monitoring of daily warehouse activities, cycle counts, receiving procedures and audits
8. Resolve inventory discrepancies quickly and effectively
9. Plan labor effectively against weekly requirements to increase worker efficiency and minimize overtime
10. Ensure on-time loading and unloading of trucks to minimize detention
11. Escalate issues as needed
12. Review warehouse layout and optimize storage capacity
13. Minimize use of outside storage
14. Communicates any issues or delays in shipments to impacted areas with corrective action plans and timings for resolution
15. Optimize picking performance and identify opportunities to reduce forklift travel
16. Review truck loading procedures to increase truck payload
17. Work with Production Plant to ensure timely delivery of parts and advise Materials teams of product issues
18. Lead warehouse sanitation/5S activities
19. Other duties as required
Required Credentials
Bachelor’s degree in management, supply chain, business or manufacturing discipline, preferred
5 years of experience in warehousing and distribution in a manufacturing environment
Prior experience managing people in a fast-paced distribution and/or manufacturing environment
Strong leadership, motivational, and team-building skills
Ability to resolve crisis and make quick decisions
Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite) and familiarity with JD Edwards or other mainframe systems
Forklift license a plus
You Must Be Able to
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
This job operates in a manufacturing plant environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
How We Make an Impact
As the largest truck body builder in North America, Morgan Truck Body LLC is proud to produce, deliver, and service quality products. With a foundation built on innovative design and quality construction, Morgan has experienced tremendous growth. In addition to dry freight truck bodies, Morgan specializes in satisfying unique and custom truck body needs, including electric vehicles, mobile service units, and refrigerated products, serving farmers, ranchers, contractors, landscapers, equipment and material haulers, and more!
Our shared values are the foundation upon which Morgan does business:
Appreciating the people who make our success possible.
Acting with integrity in all we do.
Delivering results for our customers.
Bringing an unbridled passion for our products.
Some of Our Total Rewards
We offer big company perks with small company culture:
Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life
401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
Tuition Reimbursement
Paid holidays and increasing vacation time with years of service
Generous Footwear, Eyewear, and Safety Equipment Discount Program
Paid Job and Leadership Development training
Morgan Truck Body LLC is a business unit of the J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. family and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Whether you are just beginning your career or taking the “next step,” please visit our careers page -https://www.morgancorp.com /careers.
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How You Will Make an Impact?
Morgan Truck Body is currently seeking a Materials Supervisor for our local manufacturing facility. This position will manage and oversee the receipt, storage, pick, and delivery operations of materials from suppliers to the warehouse, production lines and regional facilities. This role will motivate, manage, and measure the performance of warehouse staff against productivity and quality KPIs while ensuring the safety of all employees.
The Nuts and Bolts
1. Lead team meetings and communicate goals to the floor
2. Monitor and measure performance
3. Provide proper coaching to motivate workforce and increase retention
4. Improves methods and processes to increase productivity and quality while reducing costs
5. Conduct regular training sessions to ensure all employees are properly trained in their functions
6. Create a cross-training matrix to ensure backups are in place
7. Increase inventory accuracy through monitoring of daily warehouse activities, cycle counts, receiving procedures and audits
8. Resolve inventory discrepancies quickly and effectively
9. Plan labor effectively against weekly requirements to increase worker efficiency and minimize overtime
10. Ensure on-time loading and unloading of trucks to minimize detention
11. Escalate issues as needed
12. Review warehouse layout and optimize storage capacity
13. Minimize use of outside storage
14. Communicates any issues or delays in shipments to impacted areas with corrective action plans and timings for resolution
15. Optimize picking performance and identify opportunities to reduce forklift travel
16. Review truck loading procedures to increase truck payload
17. Work with Production Plant to ensure timely delivery of parts and advise Materials teams of product issues
18. Lead warehouse sanitation/5S activities
19. Other duties as required
Required Credentials
Bachelor’s degree in management, supply chain, business or manufacturing discipline, preferred
5 years of experience in warehousing and distribution in a manufacturing environment
Prior experience managing people in a fast-paced distribution and/or manufacturing environment
Strong leadership, motivational, and team-building skills
Ability to resolve crisis and make quick decisions
Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite) and familiarity with JD Edwards or other mainframe systems
Forklift license a plus
You Must Be Able to
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
This job operates in a manufacturing plant environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
How We Make an Impact
As the largest truck body builder in North America, Morgan Truck Body LLC is proud to produce, deliver, and service quality products. With a foundation built on innovative design and quality construction, Morgan has experienced tremendous growth. In addition to dry freight truck bodies, Morgan specializes in satisfying unique and custom truck body needs, including electric vehicles, mobile service units, and refrigerated products, serving farmers, ranchers, contractors, landscapers, equipment and material haulers, and more!
Our shared values are the foundation upon which Morgan does business:
Appreciating the people who make our success possible.
Acting with integrity in all we do.
Delivering results for our customers.
Bringing an unbridled passion for our products.
Some of Our Total Rewards
We offer big company perks with small company culture:
Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life
401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
Tuition Reimbursement
Paid holidays and increasing vacation time with years of service
Generous Footwear, Eyewear, and Safety Equipment Discount Program
Paid Job and Leadership Development training
Morgan Truck Body LLC is a business unit of the J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. family and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Whether you are just beginning your career or taking the “next step,” please visit our careers page -https://www.morgancorp.com /careers.
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