Raw Materials Lead

Owens Corning•Garden City, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for leading raw material operations during an assigned shift, ensuring safety, environmental compliance, and efficient material handling. The lead will provide hands-on direction to employees, manage inventory, coordinate deliveries, and serve as the primary point of contact for raw material issues during their shift. This position requires strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a focus on accuracy, timeliness, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Demonstrated understanding of inventory controls, receiving processes, and basic SOX requirements.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Knowledge of warehouse management systems.
Demonstrated ability to lead work, coach peers, reinforce standards, and make sound shift-level decisions.
Minimum: High school diploma or equivalent.
Minimum: Manufacturing, warehouse, logistics, supply chain, or inventory management experience.

Nice To Haves

SAP proficiency is highly desirable.
Preferred: Associate degree or relevant coursework in Inventory Management, Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
Preferred: 3+ years of warehouse rail operations, or general operations experience, including lead, trainer, coordinator, or other hands-on work-direction responsibility.

Responsibilities

Lead by example and reinforce all safety rules, regulations, procedures, and required training during the assigned shift.
Promote 100% safety engagement, complete shift safety routines, and support proactive hazard identification.
Correct unsafe conditions within the scope of the role and promptly escalate incidents or significant risks.
Ensure environmental compliance and proper housekeeping of raw material receiving areas, silos, railcar areas, and storage locations.
Understand and accumulate working knowledge of Raw Material Attendant job duties to ensure business continuity.
Provide hands-on leadership for raw material receiving, unloading, storage, inventory control, and related shift activities.
Assign daily shift responsibilities, coordinate coverage needs, communicate priorities, and verify completion of work.
Provide real-time coaching, reinforce standard work, and identify training or performance concerns.
Serve as the primary raw material contact during the assigned shift and communicate material availability, delivery delays, equipment issues, and production risks to stakeholders.
Maintain accurate raw material inventories by ensuring assigned cycle counts and inventory checks are completed accurately and on time.
Verify that materials delivered during the shift are received accurately and on time in SAP.
Investigate shift-level inventory discrepancies, receiving errors, and transaction issues; resolve or escalate promptly.
Coordinate railcar placement, unloading, documentation, release, and communication.
Maintain the railcar tracking log and promptly communicate conditions that may create detention or demurrage exposure.
Monitor inbound deliveries and verify that all items delivered during the shift are received into SAP.
Support timely correction of COGI errors and other transaction issues.
Coordinate with Quality and Production when deliveries are damaged, nonconforming, delayed, SMOI or otherwise present a risk to production.
Ensure damaged or rejected product is identified, contained, documented, and recorded.
Monitor raw material levels using a just-in-time approach and escalate shortages or abnormal usage.
Support adequate Friday and weekend inventory levels and follow established raw material plans for extended downtime and start-up.
Lead shift handoff communication, including inventory status, pending deliveries, equipment concerns, open actions, and production risks.
Monitor shift performance, identify abnormalities, and support corrective and continuous-improvement actions.
Assist with training and cross-training employees on standard work, SAP transactions, safety expectations, and raw material processes.
Escalate attendance, discipline, staffing, and significant performance matters for resolution.
Support coverage for raw material operations and perform other duties as assigned.