Materials Supervisor - Plant

8th Ave Food & Provisions • Eugene, OR

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About The Position

The Plant Materials Supervisor position is accountable for leading the releasing functions for our business. This role sets a vision and works through functional leadership to build core processes, procedures, and team capabilities to deliver on shipping, receiving, material handling, planning, scheduling, and inventory management objectives in a timely and effective manner.

Requirements

• Bachelors’ Degree in business, supply chain, production planning, or related field.
• 5+ years’ team or project leadership experience.
• Advanced proficiency Microsoft Excel functions (formula development, VLOOKUP, pivot tables, conditional formatting, text-to-columns, etc.).
• Previous experience working with inventory management and ERP system.
• Must be able to work weekends, holidays, and extra hours, as needed.
• Must be able to sit and stand for 7+ hours per day.
• Must be able to walk for 1+ hours per day.
• Must be able to work in dusty and high heat/humidity 1+ hours per day, if needed.
• Must be able to feel and perform fine manipulation 6+ hours per day.
• Must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of spoken and written words and distinguish object or equipment visually.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience with JD Edwards ERP system.
• Previous experience with inventory control.
• Previous experience leading a warehouse function.

Responsibilities

• Lead direct reports in planning and inventory management functions through the build-out of core operating processes. Leverage established systems and processes to drive effective, efficient, and compliant operations.
• Builds effective communication channels between Plant Materials Management function and customer services, sales, quality control, maintenance, and warehousing functions to ensure customer needs are met in a timely manner.
• Lead the releases purchase orders off the blanket contracts to meet the production schedules.
• Execute tasks with sense of urgency and expedite, cancel, or postpone purchase orders according to changing schedule requirements.
• Lead and mentor the Materials Release Coordinator to ensure timely and efficient release and management of packaging and Ingredients using the MRP system.
• Partner with Procurement function to build and deploy sustainable processes relating to materials release functions. Leverage data and customer relationships to ensure ready supply of ingredient/packaging materials are available to support production planning needs.
• Utilize team to identify gaps in material loss. Develop strategies to drive to goal of zero-base waste.
• Oversees and owns the annual operating budget for the materials management, and inventory management functions, in a controlled approach.
• Manage inbound required documents from suppliers for QA and Receiving department.
• Lead to resolve receiving and invoice discrepancies with the Vendors.
• Manage and maintain reject/returns of packaging and ingredient.
• Support rationalization, transition, and discontinuation of SKU’s by minimizing stock on hand liability.
• Other duties, as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees