Director of Materials

Price Industries; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pottorff, a sister company to Price Industries, seeks a Director of Materials in Fort Worth, TX to lead the companywide materials strategy across three manufacturing locations.

This role oversees purchasing, supplier management, inventory control, receiving, materials planning, production scheduling standards, and ERP/MRP processes, aiming to improve material availability, cost, inventory accuracy, and delivery performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, business, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive manufacturing materials or supply chain experience.
• Experience leading materials functions across multiple sites and scaling processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead materials teams across all locations; set responsibilities, performance expectations, training, and accountability.
• Set companywide materials policies, KPIs, and improvement plans aligned with demand and capacity.
• Ensure material availability through MRP, replenishment, shortages reviews, expediting, and interplant transfers.
• Establish inventory controls, cycle counting, physical inventory, and discrepancy resolution with Finance.
• Reduce excess and obsolete inventory while improving storage and internal material flow.
• Lead purchasing and supplier strategy, negotiations, supplier scorecards, corrective actions, and continuity planning.
• Oversee receiving standards, ERP transactions, material verification, location assignment, and storage.
• Own materials data and Epicor ERP/MRP parameters, lead times, and BOM coordination.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Quality, IT, and Finance to improve systems integration and planning accuracy.

Skills

Materials leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Negotiation

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, or related field

Tools

Epicor ERP

Job description

Pottorff, a sister company to Price Industries, is seeking a Director of Materials in Fort Worth, TX to lead Pottorff’s companywide materials strategy across three manufacturing locations, overseeing purchasing, supplier management, inventory control, receiving, materials planning, production scheduling standards, and ERP/MRP processes. This role builds consistent, scalable systems and develops team capabilities to improve material availability, cost, inventory accuracy, and delivery performance

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop materials teams across all locations; set clear responsibilities, performance expectations, training, and accountability in partnership with plant managers.
• Set companywide materials policies, procedures, KPIs, and improvement plans aligned with demand, plant capacity, customer commitments, and growth.
• Ensure availability of raw materials and purchased components through effective MRP, replenishment, shortage reviews, expediting, and interplant transfers.
• Establish inventory controls, cycle counting, physical inventory, and discrepancy resolution; partner with Finance on inventory accuracy, valuation, and working capital.
• Reduce excess and obsolete inventory while improving storage, labeling, point-of-use delivery, and internal material flow.
• Lead purchasing and supplier strategy, negotiations, supplier scorecards, corrective actions, alternate sourcing, and supply continuity planning.
• Oversee receiving standards, timely ERP transactions, material verification, location assignment, discrepancy resolution, and safe, efficient storage.
• Own materials data and process discipline in Epicor ERP/MRP, including item records, lead times, purchasing parameters, inventory locations, BOM coordination, units of measure, and revision control.
• Collaborative leader partnering with Operations, Engineering, Quality, IT, and Finance to improve systems integration, planning accuracy, controls, reporting, and cross-functional execution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or related field—or equivalent relevant education and experience.
• 8+ years of progressive manufacturing materials or supply chain experience, including at least 5 years leading teams.
• Experience leading materials functions across multiple manufacturing sites and scaling processes to support growth.
• Demonstrated capability in supplier negotiations, inventory optimization, process development, and ERP/MRP improvement.
• Expertise in purchasing, planning, production scheduling, receiving, warehousing, and material flow

Preferred Experience And Core Competencies

• Epicor ERP experience preferred. Background in metal fabrication, HVAC, sheet metal, high mix, configure-to-order, or engineer-to-order manufacturing is a plus.
• Requires strategic and hands-on leadership, financial judgment, negotiation, analytical problem-solving, project management, clear communication, and the ability to lead change and deliver measurable improvements across multiple locations.

Work Environment and Success Measures

Work spans office and manufacturing settings, with computer use, plant walking/standing, and travel among company sites and suppliers.

Success Measures:

material availability and schedule adherence; inventory accuracy and turns; supplier delivery and quality; reduced excess inventory; purchasing cost and working capital; receiving throughput; ERP/MRP data integrity; and team performance.