Materials Management Supervisor

Redpath Sugar Ltd; Belleville; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in sugar refinement seeks a Materials Management Supervisor for its Belleville plant. This role is pivotal in managing maintenance, repair, and operations inventory while ensuring seamless communication between Procurement, Operations, and Planning. You will regulate inventory to meet plant needs, troubleshoot business process challenges, and participate in supply chain improvement projects. Join a company with over a century of commitment to quality service and ethical standards, where your contributions will help maintain high operational excellence and drive future fulfillment strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 3-5 years in inventory or production planning.
• Experience with ERP systems in a supply chain capacity.

Responsibilities

• Regulates MRO inventory to meet plant needs and projects.
• Coordinates inventory movements and physical assignments.
• Facilitates communication between Procurement and Operations.

Skills

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Coordination

Problem Solving

ERP System Utilization

Process Improvement

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain or Business

Experience in Inventory or Production Planning

Tools

SAP

Job description

Redpath Sugar is part of the ASR Group, the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar.

The Redpath Belleville plant is a blending and packaging operation producing a variety of sugar containing products for customers in Canada and the U.S. The plant operates state of the art high speed mixing and packaging systems supported by high level safety, quality and logistics systems.

Overview

The Materials Management Supervisor- MRO, reports to the Supply Chain Manager MRO and is responsible for appropriately managing site-specific maintenance repair and operation inventory for material movements, supply and demand, and Materials Management-MRO related projects. The Materials Management Supervisor- MRO will act (on a plant level) as a liaison between Procurement, Operations and Planning, and the Supplier base to communicate long-term inventory requirements and work with all groups to implement optimal strategies.

Position Responsibilities

• Regulates MRO inventory in order to meet plant needs, shutdowns, projects, and repairs
• Works with other plant Materials Management team across ASR locations to coordinate shared inventory
• Responsible for assuring posting of goods movements (goods receipts, transfers, consumption, adjustments etc.)
• Controls the movement and physical assignment of inventory around the warehouse including quarantined, supplier returns and point of issue
• Completes physical inventory counts (according to ABC Cycle and ad-hoc as needed)
• Troubleshoots and solves business process challenges that cause errors related to on-hand inventory, material movement, and invoice quantity errors
• Facilitates movements of obsolete and slow-moving inventory
• Coordinates communications between Procurement, Operations, and Planning at a plant level, along with Corporate Accounts Payable
• Participates in regional and global supply chain improvement projects
• Ensures compliance with all aspects of safety related to warehouse contents and practices (housekeeping, layout improvement, material quarantine and operations)
• Develops work aid instructions for operational excellence as needed
• Coordinates trials for new material specifications and/or new suppliers
• Form and foster key relationships with the engineering and maintenance leadership
• Performs other duties as assigned
  
  

Required Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university plus 3-5 years of work experience in a progressively responsible fulfillment, inventory, or production planning role
• At least 1 year of experience utilizing an ERP system in a supply chain/fulfilment capacity
  
  

Preferred Education & Work Experience

• Degree major in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field is preferred
• Prior experience using SAP material requirements planning is highly preferred
• Supervisory experience is preferred, but not required
• Knowledge of process improvement and future fulfillment strategies is preferred
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No current supervisory responsibility
  
  

TRAVEL

• Up to 15% travel
  
  

For more than 100 years, our employees have taken pride in “Making Life a Little Sweeter” by providing our customers and consumers with quality service and sugar products. Our commitment to that principle drives us in all that we do and encourages us to uphold our company’s high ethical standards of business conduct to ensure our continued success.