Materials Supervisor - Masterack

Job Summary: Manage and oversee the receipt, storage, and delivery of materials from both suppliers and production lines in the warehouse. This role will motivate, manage, and measure the performance of warehouse staff against productivity and quality KPIs while ensuring the safety of all employees.

Essential Functions:

• Leads a team of Material Handlers with daily team meetings. Ensures communication goals to the floor.


• Creates and sustains the "Move It, Move It" culture to build confidence that what is physically moved in the warehouse is trusted as entered into JDE.


• Perform both the physical inter-departmental transport of materials in the warehouse and in JDE as they occur.


• Attends daily Production Meetings to take away and execute the physical confirmation of JDE inventory of what must be staged for required production deadlines.


• Strategically identify and plan the staging pick for specific production Work Orders, according to size and priority, to optimize performance of complete and on time deliveries.


• Communicates any issues or delays in the staging pick of production which will impact shipments so that additional planning can be set.


• Provide proper coaching to motivate the workforce and increase retention.


• Improves methods and processes to increase productivity and quality while reducing costs.


• Identify a systematic approach of signing in/out scan guns to Material Handlers daily to set accountability of who is moving what material with what timing.


• Conduct regular training sessions to ensure all employees are properly trained in their functions.


• Create a cross-training matrix to ensure backups are in place.


• Increase inventory accuracy through monitoring of daily warehouse activities, completing rotating cycle counts according to the Inventory Control Specialist PFEP, receiving procedures and audits.


• Resolve inventory discrepancies quickly and effectively.


• Plan labor effectively against weekly requirements to increase worker efficiency and minimize overtime.


• Review warehouse layout and optimize storage capacity to build the Visual Plant.


• Minimize use of outside storage.


• Lead warehouse sanitation/5S activities

Job Skills:

• Ability to work and communicate effectively, written and verbal, with all levels and functional areas of the business as well as vendors and customers.


• Ability to handle job-related matters in a professional, diplomatic, and confidential manner.


• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.


• Requires familiarity with all Microsoft applications, including Outlook, Excel, and Word.


• Must have strong self-initiative.


• Must have strong attention to detail and organizational skills.


• Requires effective interpersonal skills.


• Must be able to perform basic math calculations.


• Ability to willingly participate in a team environment to achieve departmental and organizational goals and objectives. Ability to work with established deadlines.


• Requires ability to assess situations, prioritize, re-prioritize, and make appropriate decisions.

• Ability to operate a forklift (sitting & standing)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in management, supply chain, business or manufacturing discipline, preferred.


• 5 years of experience in a warehousing, distribution or shipping environment


• Prior experience managing people in a fast-paced distribution environment.

• Must have good communication skills.

• Strong leadership, motivational, and team-building skills


• Ability to resolve crisis and make quick decisions.

• Strong computer skills along with familiarity of JDE software for inventory a plus


• Forklift license a plus

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT: PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Frequent sitting to perform computer activities. Frequent walking and standing to assess warehouse space management.


• Occasional climbing, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling in order to examine raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods.


• Occasional lifting, moving, carrying, pushing/pulling up to 50 pounds without assistance. Over 50 pounds with assistance is provided.


• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office equipment or computers.


• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone.

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