Materials Manager

Confidential • Roseville, MI

406d • $80,000 - $105,000

About The Position

The Materials Manager is responsible for overseeing the shipping, receiving, warehouse, inventory control, and production control activities within a manufacturing environment. This role ensures that materials flow safely and efficiently throughout the plant, meeting customer goals in a timely manner while maintaining compliance with safety standards and operational guidelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of managerial experience in materials management and inventory control, preferably in the automotive industry.
• Superior planning and organizational skills.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability, statistical inference, and geometry.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the automotive industry.
• Demonstrated ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.

Responsibilities

• Directing and coordinating activities of shipping, receiving, warehouse, inventory control, and production control.
• Supervising and maintaining labor hours for a staff of indirect labors.
• Ensuring safe, timely, and accurate material flow in to the plant, between departments, and out of the plant.
• Attaining 5S objectives and performing 5S maintenance throughout the plant.
• Performing and delegating all tasks in the shipping and receiving functional area.
• Enforcing safety rules and guidelines associated with OSHA standards.
• Observing indirect labors to ensure compliance with standards.
• Performing safety, dock, and forklift audits as required.
• Training, testing, and certifying all material handlers.
• Monitoring and maintaining proper hours for assigned indirect staff members in the payroll system.
• Receiving all trucks and processing the paperwork required for inventory accuracy.
• Ensuring all shipping and receiving procedures are understood and adhered to.
• Ensuring carrier window time conformance and receipt accuracy.
• Coordinating and segregating all potential non-conforming material within the facility.
• Handling all personnel issues within the Material Handling function.
• Reviewing production schedule and scheduling delivery dates to plan department operations.
• Interacting with appropriate departments regarding material-related issues.
• Conducting and participating in continuous improvement and problem-solving activities.
• Reporting inventory levels, accuracy, and turns.
• Measuring vendor and shipping performance.
• Reviewing material flow and schedule of work consistently.
• Establishing long-term goals for production control and material handlers.
• Making decisions regarding work processes, priorities, and resource allocation.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree