Material Master Specialist

Carrier•Fort Worth, TX

7d•$79,000 - $158,000

About The Position

The Material Master Specialist owns the creation, extension, maintenance, and governance of SAP material master data for Carrier’s Texas manufacturing plant. The role is part of Operations and ensures material data is accurate, complete, and available on time to support planning, procurement, production, inventory, costing, and shipping. As the operational steward of material master data, the specialist converts engineering-provided design and product-release information into plant-ready material records, coordinates department views with the functions responsible for them, and protects data quality through standards, controls, and continuous improvement. The position also supports Texas plant launch activities, including data migration, testing, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization within the scope of material master data.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
At least 4 years of experience in material master, master data, ERP, supply chain, or manufacturing operations.
At least 2 years of hands-on experience with SAP ECC ERP and material master maintenance.
At least 2 years of experience working across Operations, Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT, and driving issues to closure.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Working knowledge of how material master data affects MRP, procurement, inventory, production, and product costing.
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to identify and correct root causes of data issues.
Experience with SAP Materials Management (MM), and with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
Experience with SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) or similar workflow and approval tools.
Experience with mass-update or data-load tools such as Winshuttle or SAP migration tools.
Understanding of BOMs, engineering change processes, and product-release handoffs in a manufacturing environment.
Experience supporting a plant startup, ERP deployment, or data migration.
Exposure to Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methods.
Advanced Excel and Microsoft 365 skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

Create, extend, change, block, and deactivate SAP material master records for the Texas plant according to approved standards and service levels.
Review material requests for completeness and accuracy; return or escalate requests that do not meet requirements.
Coordinate plant-level MRP, Purchasing, Work Scheduling, Storage, Quality, Accounting/Costing, and Sales views with the responsible functions.
Maintain material types, units of measure, material groups, plant parameters, and other attributes that support downstream transactions.
Receive released materials and engineering changes (ECNs and/or MCNs) from Engineering and convert them into plant-ready material records.
Support new product introductions and engineering changes by confirming material data readiness before planning, purchasing, and production require it.
Partner with Engineering on Manufacturing BOM-related material issues, effectivity, and revision alignment; Engineering retains ownership of design data and engineering BOMs.
Apply and maintain data standards, naming conventions, approval workflows, and audit-ready change documentation.
Conduct routine data-quality reviews to identify incomplete, inconsistent, duplicate, or obsolete records and drive cleanup.
Track master-data performance measures, including request cycle time, first-pass accuracy, aging requests, and defect trends.
Investigate master-data errors affecting transaction processing, MRP, purchasing, or costing; drive root-cause analysis and corrective action.
Support Texas plant launch activities, including data migration, testing, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization within the material master scope.
Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and automate material master processes, including governed mass updates, while maintaining controls.
Develop and maintain SOPs and training materials, and serve as the plant subject-matter resource for material master requirements.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Wellness incentives.
Retirement benefits.
Paid vacation days, up to 15 days.
Paid sick days, up to 5 days.
Paid personal leave, up to 5 days.
Paid holidays, up to 13 days.
Birth and adoption leave.
Parental leave.
Family and medical leave.
Bereavement leave.
Jury duty leave.
Military leave.
Purchased vacation.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment coverage.
Health Savings Account, Health Care Spending Account, and Dependent Care Spending Account.
Tuition assistance.
The position may be entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.