• Oversee daily flow of materials through facility, leading the Shipping & Receiving Coordinator, Production Scheduler, Buyer / Planner and Material Handlers.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate inventory levels according to Annual Operating Plan and Forecast.
• Manage Cycle Count process ensuring compliance to established schedule, that all variances are investigated to determine root cause and that effective corrective action is taken to eliminate future variances.
• Along with Controller responsible for planning and executing Annual Physical Inventory process, ensuring absolute variance is less than 2%.
• Develop and implement materials handling procedures to ensure safe, accurate movement of material through the facility.
• Coordinate, consolidate and publish daily/weekly/monthly/YTD metrics specified by the Plant Manager and scorecard process.
• Serve as primary plant liaison on material matters to Corporate Supply Chain, other Milsco sites and Supply partners.
• Support and coordinate with local/Corporate Materials functions in developing plant level supplier development activities as needed.
• Recommend system/process improvement projects to Plant Manager.
• Authorize premium/expedited freight expense in absence of the Plant Manager
• Investigate, correct, and eliminate at the root cause any manufacturing component shortages (both internal and external).
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor degree and 8 years of related experience
• Advanced skills with ERP and Excel Software packages.
• Experience with Level Loading, Fixed Sequence, Kanban System development and implementation, or other Lean material practices strongly preferred.
• Enthusiastic, self-starter with an attention to detail, service minded and able to manage multiple priorities.

TYPICAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Occasional lifting of objects up to 30 pounds,
• Repetitive motions that may include the wrist, hands and/or fingers,
• Requires frequent walking / standing / sitting for prolonged periods of time.