Plant Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 5 years of Materials or Warehouse Supervisor experience with a focus on inventory control, material handling, material quality, and transportation.
• Strong hands-on leadership skills in material handling.
• Strong knowledge of DOT compliance and OSHA safety regulations.
• Ability to lead through influence with other cross functional leaders.
• Basic skillset in Microsoft office – Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Previous experience utilizing ERP/MRP systems for material handling.
• Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking the English language is required.

Nice To Haves

• Associate’s degree or higher in supply chain management, business, economics, or analytics.
• APICS CSCP, APICS CPIM are a plus.
• OSHA 10 Certification a plus.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain inbound material quality inspection processes in partnership with a Quality Engineer to ensure all inbound raw materials or purchased components meet the expected quality standards.
• Supervise material handlers performing duties such as loading and unloading trucks, packing finished goods, unpackaging inbound materials, managing inventory locations, and operating forklifts or pallet jacks.
• Ensure material handling equipment is operated in adherence to company training and safety requirements.
• Publish daily and weekly shipment priorities to ensure material handlers stage truck loads accurately and timely to meet or exceed 98.5% on time and complete deliveries.
• Stage raw materials at the end of each shift for production the following day based on information provided by Production Planning.
• Maintain accurate inventory locations, inventory counts, and report adjustments in a timely manner.
• Review and approve all packing lists for accuracy to initiate invoicing process for outbound deliveries upon the trucks leaving the dock.
• Ensure all finished goods loaded onto outbound delivery trucks meet or exceed packaging and damage mitigation standards. Maintain inspections to document, train, and verify such standards.
• Operate material handling equipment as part of the team to ensure warehouse operations serve both internal and external customers efficiently.
• Verify inbound material quantities unloaded match purchase order requirements and report any discrepancies immediately to the purchasing team.
• Ensure alignment with corporate cycle counting strategies that achieve 96% or better inventory accuracy.
• Lead physical inventory or cycle counts as directed by plant leadership and in partnership with the purchasing and planning teams.
• Ensure world class inventory control systems that include numerical locations, labels, and standard operating procedures.
• Maintain a safe, orderly, and clean warehouse where 5S and lean standards are culturized and evident at all times.
• Lead and develop material handling team with specific plans/goals for each team member and routine feedback.
• Ensure adherence to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Utilize Voice of Customer feedback to enhance the team’s performance.
• Provide support and mentorship to team members.
• Complete outbound quality documentation/photos and compile weekly metrics for material packaging or handling defects. Use the data to drive corrective actions within the team.
• Supervise route delivery drivers in DOT or non-DOT roles.
• Ensure DOT Compliance, as applicable, for drivers, trucks, and trailers, including driver requirements and equipment maintenance requirements.
• Serve as emergency route driver if needed.