Consumption Coordinator

Lippert; Indiana (PA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Lippert is seeking a qualified Materials Coordinator to orchestrate production scheduling and material flow. You will ensure the department receives the correct parts and maintains ERP consumption accuracy, updating BOM changes as needed.

You will collaborate with production, engineering, and purchasing to address shortages, monitor remaining consumption, and maintain accurate logs while supporting continuous improvement and safe operations in a primarily indoor setting.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED (not required).
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Microsoft Office Skills

Responsibilities

• Participates in all warehouse functions and observes all safety requirements.
• Responsible for the materials team continuous improvement and professional development.
• Assign tasks as required to maintain a safe work environment for team members.

Skills

Inventory control

Team leadership

ERP systems

Communication

Microsoft Office

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Who We Are:

Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing, and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries. We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation, and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are. We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members’ unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You will Get:

1. A unique, inclusive, and supportive company culture.
2. Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
3. Fair and competitive compensation.
4. Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.
5. Holiday, personal and vacation days.

Summary/Objective:

Responsible for scheduling department work ensuring production receives and consumes the correct material. Provides schedule to yard leader for delivery of parts to production in a timely manner. Maintain ERP accuracy for consumption and processes within materials department, including remaining consumption, error log, bill of material changes, work fills, and shortages.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential Functions:

1. Participates in all warehouse functions and observes all safety requirements.
2. Responsible for the materials team continuous improvement and professional development.
3. Assign tasks as required to maintain a safe work environment for team members.

Other Key Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

1. Starting RPO’s to create pick work for material handler 1 and correlating all paperwork.
2. Monitoring All open work to ensure it is closed accurately and in a timely manner.
3. Reviewing remaining consumption and clearing daily.
4. Assisting with bill of material changes and subs for production.
5. Communicate all the material shortages to the production and purchasing teams, monitor that all material consumed correctly in the system.
6. Start work and enter the pick dates based on production schedule, update RPOs when engineering or customer changes occur, and part work cancellation when needed.
7. Communicate effectively with quality, engineering, production, and management about material shortages. Monitor the consumption of material through the ERP system and ensure it is accurate.
8. Keep track of the shortages and make sure that all the material moved to the production lines is correct and consumed correctly.
9. Generate paper picks when material added late in the day or equipment not functioning correctly.
10. Complete team member evaluations and corrective actions, approve or deny requests for time off if there are team members reporting to you.
11. Monitor and release work for part call requests from production lines.
12. Monitor and release work for shortages using release to warehouse report.
13. Monitor and release all work fills for the material handlers.

Working Conditions:

• Primarily working indoors, office environment.
• May sit or stand for several hours at a time.
• May be on the floor/in the work, could be exposed to elements (heat, snow, etc.)
• Prolonged exposure to computer screens.
• Repetitive use of hands to operate computers, printers, and copiers.

Qualifications:

1. High school degree or GED (not necessary).
2. Ability to write simple correspondence.
3. Microsoft Office Skills

Competencies:

1. Must be able to work as a part of a team to achieve the company's overall goals.
2. Must be able to maintain error log and remaining consumption daily.
3. Must be able to ensure that material is delivered on time to production.
4. Must be able to create processes that support management goals and increase productivity.
5. Must demonstrate clear verbal and written communication skills (English).
6. Must be able to read and process written communication including, but not limited to measurements, directions, instructions, etc.
7. Must be able to help production meet goals and time deadlines for company projects.
8. Must have the ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other team members of the organization.
9. Must be able to work with minimum supervision.
10. Must have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and convert in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
11. Must possess successful problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
12. Must have the ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
13. Must be able to exhibit tact and diplomacy and maintain professional relationships with leaders, fellow team members, customers, etc.
14. Must be able to work under physically and mentally stressful situations.
15. Must be able to prioritize and easily adapt to changes throughout the day.
16. Must have the ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This role does not have any supervisory responsibility upon hiring.

Physical Demands:

While performing duties of the job, the team member is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active – while performing this job the team member is regularly standing walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, balancing, reaching, handling, and climbing all day. The team member may have to lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations considered for individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the team member works around moving mechanical parts, heavy equipment, and conveyer roller lines. The team member will work in outside weather conditions in all seasons. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

In addition, the team may be exposed to dust, fumes, gases, noise, heat, cold, and wet work while performing job duties.

This position requires Personal Protective Equipment such as work gloves, safety glasses, ear plugs, cut resistant sleeves, and seasonal gear which will be provided.

Additional items required but not included are steel toed shoes or boots with metatarsal guards

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time hourly position, and hours of work and days are based upon the need to support operations and production. Some Saturdays will be mandatory.

Travel:

There is no travel required for this position.

Preferred Education and Experience:

1. 1-3 years of inventory control experience.
2. 3-5 years of supervisor/management experience.
3. At least 1 year of inventory control experience.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

None

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Pay Group : AAP/EEO Statement

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, protected veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law. This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave‑of‑absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters. All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job‑related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert’s strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member. Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members. Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership. Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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